Pacific Theater IDs Flashcards
Washington Naval Conference
A conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
An agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II.
Japan invades Manchuria
A false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade.
Stimson doctrine
A false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade.
1935 Neutrality Act
Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war
1936 Neutrality Act
prohibited Americans from extending any loans to belligerent nations.
2nd Sino-Japanese War begins
when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion
1937 Neutrality Act with Cash & Carry Clause
the president could permit the sale of materials and supplies to belligerents in Europe as long as the recipients arranged for the transport and paid immediately with cash
Quarantine Speech
speech called for an international “quarantine” against the “epidemic of world lawlessness” by aggressive nations as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time.
Panay Incident
a Japanese bombing attack on the U.S. Navy river gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River near the Chinese capital of Nanjing on December 12, 1937. Japan and the United States were not at war at the time.
1939 Neutrality Act with Cash & Carry
lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.”
Tripartite Pact
an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin
Lend-Lease Pact
this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”
Japan Takes Control of French Indochina
Japan deposed the French authorities in the spring of 1945, imprisoning the French administrators and taking direct control of Indochina until the end of the war.
Atlantic Charter
was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war. The joint statement, later dubbed the Atlantic Charter, outlined the aims of the United States and the United Kingdom for the postwar world as follows: no territorial aggrandizement, no territorial changes
US Oil Embargo on Japan
a ban on oil exports to “aggressor countries,” including Japan.
US-Japanese Negotiations
Pearl Harbor
Japanese Invade the Philippines, Guam, and Hong Kong / Bataan Death March
US declares war on Japan
Executive Order 9066: Japanese Internment
effort to curb potential Japanese espionage, Executive Order 9066 approved the relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps.
Battle of Coral Sea
a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. Taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the battle was the first naval action in which the opposing fleets neither sighted nor fired upon one another, attacking over the horizon from aircraft carriers instead. It was also the first military battle between two aircraft carriers.[9]
Midway
Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Guadalcanal
offensive against forces of the Empire of Japan in the Solomon Islands during the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Cairo Conference
Attended by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it outlined the Allied position against the Empire of Japan during World War II and made decisions about post-war Asia.
