Slides
How did skepticism about war and business start?
Great Depression
Who is John T. Flynn?
Muck-racking financial journalist and founding memver if America First Commitee
What is "American Revisionism"?
What is there is a "truer" version of past events uncontaminated by the establishment
What event caused the U.S. the join WW2?
Pearl Harbor
What country was the U.S. supporting by entering the war?
The United Kingdom
What was the name of John T. Flynn's book about President Roosevelt and his ideas about him?
The Roosevelt Myth
What was the name of the theory that Roosevelt knew about the Japanese attack?
Triple Conspiracy/ Back-door
Which political party more heavily belived the pearl harbor conspiracy?
Which journal found that there was "sinsiter Communist influence" trying to create disunity between American political parties?
Washinton Times-Herlad
To save his failing New Deal econmomic policies
What was the committee that invesitagted the financial influence on war conspiracy?
Munitions Investigating Committee
Who is the most decorated marine in U.S. history and wrote War is a Racket?
Major General Smedley Butler
What did people eventually think about Day of Deceit?
What is evidence was Misinformed and/or Misunderstood
What became Flynn's primar taregt regarding war conspiracies later on?
Communism and its influence on U.S. public life
What is the term for something that is not what it sees to the majority, conducted for the benefit of a "small" group at the expense of many?
What is Racket
How many Americans died in Pearl Habor attack?
2,403
What did John Toland's book Infamy claim about U.S. intelligence?
The U.S. had already known the enemy fleet was en route to Hawaii and the attack was going to happen
What did John Flynn believe about Hollywood during the war?
It was a tool used to implant "pro-war" sentiments into viewers
What was the term for the specific 1934 munitions investigating committee that claimed bankers and arms manufactures that manueverd the U.S. into WW1 for financial gain?
The Nye Commmittee
Which President was first involced with war conspiracies?
President Woodrow Wilson