Chapter 27 Flashcards
Kellog-Briand Pact
Outlawed war
Axis Powers
Italy, Germany and Japan
Neutrality Acts
Laws in the 1930s that forbade selling munitions or lending money to belligerents
Lend Lease
In 1941, Congress gave FDR the authority to sell, lend, lease, or transfer war materials to any country whose defense he declared vital to that of the US
What is the day of infamy?
December 7, 1941
Yalta Conference
A wartime conference in Feb. 1945 in which the Allies agreed to final plans for the defeat of Germany and the terms of its occupation
Manhattan Project
The top-secret WW2 program that produced the first atomic weapons
What is Hardings third way?
Diplomacy
What was FDRs Latin American policy?
He proclaimed a Good Neighbor policy and then proceeded to win goodwill by renouncing the imperialism of the past
In the years following WW1, how was Japan acting in the Pacific?
Rude