Isolationism
What is the Great Depression?
Name for a type of navy battleships
What are destroyers?
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration between FDR and _____.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The target of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
What is a US naval base?
Answer to the key question: Did Pearl Harbor transform US policy or simply accelerate existing trajectory?
What is accelerate existing trajectory?
Section of the League of Nations Covenant that American politicians viewed as a threat to U.S. sovereignty and something that would lead to "foreign entanglement"
What is Article 10?
The way that FDR bypasses a need for congressional approval in the Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
What is an executive agreement?
The country that primarily benefited from the Lend-Lease Act
What is Britain?
"A date that will live in ____" -FDR, in referral to the day of Pearl Harbor
What is infamy?
Made numerous political cartoons criticizing US isolationism, and a well-known children's book author and illustrator
Who is Dr. Seuss?
Committee that led the popular belief that WWI was fought for only for profit, and that US citizens were "tricked" into support of the war
What is the Nye Committee?
What is isolationism?
The Lend-Lease Act let the US stay ____ while still supplying war material to Allied nations.
What is neutral?
The two countries besides Japan that declare war on the US soon after Pearl Harbor
What are Germany and Italy?
Answer to the key question: Were US steps toward involvement driven more by strategic calculation or democratic ideology?
What is strategic calculation?
Committee set up in 1940 that acted as strong opposition to anything that might risk US neutrality
What is the America First Committee?
A provision that declared that hostile countries could purchase anything but munitions as long as they followed two rules (that are referenced in this provision's name)
What is the Cash & Carry Provision?
The number of postwar principles the Atlantic Charter outlined
What is 8?
The year the Attack on Pearl Harbor took place (+ the US officially entering WWII)
What is 1941?
FDR did not intervene in many WWII events because restrained by public opinion, making historians classify him as a ______.
What is pragmatist?
Verbage used by Wilson to describe U.S. relations to the Allied powers in attempt to side step future foreign involvement when the U.S. entered WWI
What is an associated power?
The total number of Neutrality Acts
What is 5?
FDR's justification for the Lend Lease Act
What is "vital to the defense of the United States"?
What are the Philippines?
Name of an FDR speech in which he justified American intervention (which was just aiding Britain at the time) by saying the US was fighting for universal freedoms all people deserved
What is the Four Freedoms Speech?