Chapter 11-1 Flashcards
Overall the government favored isolationism and neutrality
Neutrality Acts
Passed a series of acts to ensure neutrality and isolationism
- 1935 banned the sale of weapons to nations at war
- 1936 no lone’s to warring nations
- 1937 Cash and carry
3 weeks after the invasion of Poland what happend?
Britain and France declared war
When did we step up to help Britain?
After France fell in 1940
What did we give to Britain in exchange to build American military base on British territory?
50 old destroyers
Who did not want us to help the British?
A group called America First Committee (Isolationist)
Britain was almost bankrupts so they wouldn’t be able to buy supplies
Lend Lease = Nov. 1940
Authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense was vital to American security
Lend Lease Act
Who did the US and Britain pledge support to attack?
Hitler
Army officer who took over power in Japan
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Date of Pearl Harbor Attack
December 7, 1941
First African American to be rewarded the Navy Cross
Doris Miller
What did we call December 7, 1941
“A date which will live infamy”
Required all males age of 21-36 to register for military service
Selective Training and Service Act
Why did some people join on there own will?
Joined out of patriotism
Who came up with a secret code based on their language that little people knew?
Navajos
What where the women who where pilots called in the military?
Wasp (Women Air force Service Pilots)
Where did bombings effect for their production
Britain and the Soviet Union
What industry was suspended for the Duration of the war
The Automobile industry
Introduced mass production techniques into shipbuilding that cut time needed to build one type of ship from 200 days to 40 ships
Henry J. Kaiser
Where did money come from
Higher taxes
How would you barrow money from the public?
Bonds (war bonds)
Movies featured patriotic themes and supported the war by encouraging Americans to buy what?
Victory bonds
Load bombers up on aircraft carriers and attack Japan. Where named after who?
Lt, Colonel James H. Doolittle
Who attacked Midway?
The Japanese
Planes scatter large numbers of bombs over a wide area
Carpet Bombing
The Flying Fortress
B-17
Late 1943 one of the top Generals = ___________ said we needed to attack German forces in France.
George Marshall
When was D-Day?
June 6th, 1944
Code named beaches
Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
Plan to trick the Germans about the invasion fleet was called
Operation Fortitude
Operation Overlord was headed by who?
General Dwight Wisenhower
