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Arsenal of Democracy
Lend-Lease Plan
Britain had no cash left Any country whose defense was vital to the United States. Lend-Lease Act - Passed 1941
Grew to spend over $50 billion Arms leased to both Great Britain and the Soviet Union
US is attacked
US Destroyer Greer none dead US Destroyer Kearny 11 sailors dead US Destroyer Rueben James 100 sailors dead
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck you before you crush him. These NAZI submarines are the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic.
China invaded 1931 and 1937 French Indochina invaded (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.)
Peace Talks
America had decrypted the Japanese army secret codes
We knew the Japanese were planning to attack us; what we didnt know was WHERE??? US wanted to have Japan commit the first overt act.
December 7, 1941
A date which will live in infamy Japan attacks on an early Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Pacific Fleet Headquarters)
Nearly the entire US Pacific Fleet was incapacitated or destroyed; the Japanese lost 29 planes.
Isolationist Sentiment
The only thing left now to do is to lick the hell out of them.
I have awoken a sleeping giant. Said after the attack on Pearl Harbor.