US
What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts?
This was what type of foreign policy?
To avoid participation in war in Europe. Help preserve American democracy.
Isolationism
What "disease" was spreading across Europe?
Military dictatorships
The Japanese used these types of attacks to target American ships
Kamikaze
How were the League of Nations and the United Nations similar?
Both aimed to prevent international disputs from turning into war.
In what ways did Americans contribute to the war effort?
Enlist in the military
Homefront
Rationing of food.
Conserving natural resources.
Women working factory jobs to produce for the war.
Buying bonds.
Appeasement refers to what?
Spineless leaders of G.B. & France giving Germany territory.
Name Hitlers rapid bombing of Great Britain
Blitzkrieg- lightening war
What was decided about what would happen to Germany at the Yalta Conference?
Germany was to be divided into 4 parts.
Direct cause of US involvement in WWII?
Japan bombing Pearl Harbor.
Immediate cause of WWII
Germany invading Poland.
Name the Allied invasion that consisted of air, sea and land. Where did it take place?
D-Day, Normandy France
What did FDR & Churchill talk about at the Atlantic Charter?
Creating peace in a post-war world.
4 freedoms- freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from fear and freedom from want.
Explain the breakdown of American neutrality. Cash-n-Carry-> Lend-Lease Act
Send war supplies to the Allied Nations.
Cash-n-Carry->pay and pick them up. US avoid getting directly involved.
Lend-Lease-> give supplies to support the Allies in WWII America was to be the " Arsenal of democracy"
Name the Axis powers countries, leaders and their targeted area to conquer?
Germany- Hitler, all of Europe
Italy- Mussolini, Africa
Japan- Tojo, China
Explain Americas plan to get closer to Japan for an invasion
"Island-hopping" campaign, secure bases to attack Japan
Who are the 5 permanent security members of the UN?
US, GB, France, Russia, and China
What was Executive Order 9066? How was it justified?
Internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast.
Response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese were seen as a threat to national security.
During a time of war you have less individual rights.
Explain how the Treaty of Versailles/League of Nations set the stage for WWII.
Resentment over the treaty- Germany, Italy and Japan. The US did not join the League making it ineffective.
What was President Trumans justification for using the Atomic bomb?
Name the 2 cities it was dropped on.
It would save many lives (American)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Put the following events in order:
V-E Day
V-J Day
American Neutrality
Appeasement
American Neutrality
Appeasement
V-E Day
V-J Day