POLS127Mid_WorldWar2

1) Senator Gerald Nye's committee (1934) Munitions makers, bankers, British propagandists pushed America's involvement in WW1

2) Neutrality Acts of 19351937

3) Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in March of 1939 and involved in Poland in September 1939. Muich lesson: appeasement only yields more aggression

4) Japanese invasions of Manchuria in September 1931 and China proper in July 1937

5) FDR's "lend lease" Act. "Lend a hose to a burning house..."

1) Pearl Harbor and FDR's war message December 7, 1941
2) FDR's "second front" pledge to Stalin May 1942--delayed June 1944
3) FDR's "4 policemen" conflict (US, Britain, Soviet Union, and China) "Open spheres of influence"
4) "Percentage Deal" between Churchill and Stalin--behind closed doors. Divided Eastern Europe for Soviets and Europe

1) Postwar UN with 5 permanent members: US, Britain, China, France, Soviet Union
2) Liberated Europe and former axis satellite states of Europe would be subjected to free and democratic elections
3) FDR and CHurchill agreed to the Soviets sphere of influence in Eastern Europe
4) Germany was to be disarmed and portioned into 4 zones