英语国家概况American_History课件.pptVIP

This nation asks for action, and action now. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt did immediately go into action. In the first l00 days in the White House, he made Congress pass a large number of acts, with the purpose of preventing the further worsening of the economic situation and helping the needy people. World War II the United States The Second, World War was the result of struggle between the great powers for control of the world and military expansion of the countries of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and militarist Japan. This struggle was worsened by the world economic crisis. From the Japanese attack on China in July 1937 to the German attack on Poland in September 1939, from the attack on the Soviet Union in June, 194l to the Pearl Harbour incident in December 1941, the war spread to the whole world and involved all the great powers in the world. In the early 1930s, the American foreign policy was isolationist, that is, to keep the U. S. out of the fighting that was going on in Europe and Asia. From 1935 to 1937, the U. S. Congress passed 3 neutrality acts which were all signed into law by President Roosevelt. These neutrality laws were aimed at preventing the U. S. from being dragged into the war. These laws actually helped and encouraged the aggressors because they made clear that whatever happened, the U. S. would not support the countries being attacked The bombing of Pearl Harbour changed the whole situation. The nation was formally in war with the Axis powers, that is, Germany, Italy and Japan. American wartime objectives were the total destruction of the Axis powers and the establishment of a world order after unconditional victory in accord with American ideals and interests. And the road to the realization of these objectives was coordination of American, British and Soviet efforts. Wartime American diplomacy largely was American diplomacy towards Britain and the Soviet Union. The Big Three * Gettysburg Address On November 19,1863,A