HY 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Lend-Lease, Nye Committee, Quarantine Speech
29 Aug 2016
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Foreign policy in the 1930s and the march towards war. Impact of world war i on foreign policy. Events in europe and start of world war ii. Required men to sign up for the war draft. Britain is running out of money, fighting germany on its own. We are not going to make them pay us back anymore, we are going to lend them money and supplies. It"s like a piece of gum after a while, after a few uses, you don"t want it back taft. Congress loses, roosevelt wins the lend lease act. We also approve lend lease to the soviet union. Japan is going to keep pushing the united states. We acted strongly to the japanese we cut off trade, cut off assets, etc. The japanese can withdrawal from china, or go for broke. The empire of japan and the attack on pearl harbor. The japanese have only a 6 month supply of oil.
