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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)