U.S. Neutrality
Isolationist senators and representatives in Congress passed these acts to ensure the U.S. policy would be strictly neutral if war broke out in Europe. These acts were signed into law applied to belligerent nations, ones that the president proclaimed to be at war.
What is The Neutrality Acts?
These three leaders are considered the "Big 3" during the Second World War.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin?
On December 7, 1941, this attack on a U.S. naval base in Hawaii by the Japanese achieved total surprise and led to the U.S. declaring war on Japan the next day.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This was the Prime Minister of Canada throughout World War II.
Who is Mackenzie King?
After declaring war on Germany and Italy in 1942, this country gave air and naval bases over to the U.S. to help in the war effort, which were invaluable in the North African campaign.
What is Brazil?
During his first inaugural address in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to enact this policy toward other nations of the Western Hemisphere.
What is Good Neighbor Policy?
This meeting of the Big 3 occurred February, 1945. They agreed to the division of Germany and Berlin into four parts, war criminal trials for axis powers, the United Nations as a global organization, and the USSR would enter the Pacific War after the defeat of Germany.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This battle in the Pacific was a turning point in the war as US forces decoded Japanese radio message and was a clear victory for the U.S.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This branch of Canada's armed forces played a considerable part in Allied victories and offered Canada the praise of being the "aerodrome of democracy" from President FDR.
What is the Royal Canadian Air Force?
This was the only Latin American country to send its army into combat overseas during WWII.
What is Brazil?
Hoping to avoid open conflict with Germany, democracies adopted this policy which allowing Hitler to get away with relatively small acts of aggression and expansion.
What is the Policy of Appeasement?
This was the first diplomatic meeting of the Big Three where the future of Germany was decided (split into 3), however there were disagreements about what do to with Poland.
What is The Tehran Conference?
This was the operation codename for the secret invasion of Normandy France by the Allied powers? (HINT: *the answer is not D-Day*)
What is Operation Overlord?
This allied attack in Aug 1942 was designed to increase German fears of an attack in the west and to test equipment and strategy for the eventual opening of the Second Front. It was unsuccessful and saw thousands of Canadian deaths and prisoners.
What is The Dieppe Raid?
This type of German attack encouraged Latin American countries such as Brazil and Mexico to declare war on them during WWII.
What is U-Boat attacks?
Isolationists became alarmed by Roosevelt’s pro-British policies and formed this committee to mobilize American public opinion against war.
This big 3 meeting had Truman in attendance instead of FDR. They discussed the war in Asia, the future of Germany, and had disagreements over German reparations and Poland's borders.
What is The Potsdam Conference?
This was the Operation Codename given to the Allied invasion of North Africa led by US General Eisenhower in 1942.
What is Operation Torch?
This beach was the section of land Canada was tasked with establishing a beachhead at during D-Day.
What is Juno Beach?
After the war, many Nazis fled Europe and were allowed to settle in this Latin American country that had remained neutral for most of the war.
What is Argentina?
When Japan invaded China in 1937, Roosevelt made this speech proposing that the democracies act together to “______” the aggressor.
What is the Quarantine Speech?
Roosevelt led this conference in Lima, Peru, in 1938 to develop collective security in the Americas. Each state agreed to avoid war and any actions that might lead to war, as well as a shared "Declaration of American Principles".
What is the Eight Pan-American Conference?
This was the codename from the operation that established Sicily as the next point of allied invasion after successfully conquering North Africa from axis forces. Stalin was angry at this decision.
What is Operation Husky?
This is the country where Canadian forces helped open up the crucial port of Antwerp and where Canadian negotiated for relief supplies to end the "hunger winter".
What is the Netherlands?
The Roosevelt administration offered this type of aid to Latin American countries that joined the war as part of the allies.
What is Lend-Lease aid?