may 5, 2016 aim 80 raw what were what was the blitzkrieg
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• May 5, 2016
• RAW • What was Blitzkrieg?
• AIM 80 • What were
the Neutrality
Acts?
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I. The Election of 1940• FDR(D) • Wendell Wilkie(R) • FDR runs for an unprecedented third term.
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II. America and the War. • Americans wishing to avoid any future conflict in Europe
• push Congress to pass a series of Neutrality Acts.
• U.S is NOT allowed to sell weapons to any nation at war!
• England and France are powerless to stop Hitler’s powerful military machine.
• England Stands Alone in 1940
• (57 consecutive nights London was bombed)