Chapter 22 Flashcards
Munich Pact
France,Britain, Germany. Fr&Br give Ger the Sudetenland without including Czech. SIG: Hitler thinks he do what he want, so he⬇️
- Hitler then invades Czech
- Hitler now wants Poland
Good neighbor policy
US wasn’t in a military point to help internal affairs of Latin America.
-FDR condemned wealthy businessmen in US, but was chill with working with dictators so we have more resources.
Nonaggression act
between USSR & Germany who agree to no aggressing between the two, and the two eventually take Poland. SIG: stops invasion of UK-invasion of Poland leads to Brits&French getting involved, starting WWII
Blitzing warfare
Lightning War. Send all resources at once without a warning; army, navy, Air Force. SIG:Hitler uses this this tactic to invade countries.
Lend lease act
Us agrees to lend other countries weapons
Cash and carry
US agrees to sell large weapons to anyone with cash and a boat to carry it on
Atlantic charter
outlines the war of WWII, but the US wasn’t in war. SIG: the US new they’d have to get involved in the war.
Attlee of Midway
US turned tide in the pacific, Japan was no longer an OFFENSIVE threat, so US could focus on Europe.
June 6 1944 D-Day
Marks the beginning of Americas major involvement in Europe
Stalingrad
: turned tide of the German invasion of Russia. Moment where Stalin pushes hitler back
Finale solution
Hitler is in deep. This was the mass extermination of “undesirable” peoples- Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals and Jews(by 1945 - 6 million)
Gi Bill of rights
after you get out of war as a veteran you have rights to reduced payments on things and free school in places.
Educative order9066
FDR ordered the expulsion of all persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast and relocation to internment camps.
Harry S Truman
president after FDR. SIG: decides to use the atomic bomb
