Pre-WW11 Flashcards
American Neutrality
America stayed neutral because it didn’t want to get involved in another war so quickly after the Great Depression.
American supplies English
Even though they said they wanted to be neutral, they supplied the English with war supplies and money and stuff.
Lend-Lease Act
set up a system that allowed the US to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the US.”
Pearl Harbor
Date- Dec, 7, 1941
A U.S. military base in Hawaii that Japan deemed vital to crippling the US military and an asset for the US as it was a major oil and fueling station for ships and planes. Early morning, Japanese planes and submarines bombed Pearl Harbor. This raid killed more than 2300 Americans and destroyed battleships and some 180 aircraft. Japan had few losses. This led to Roosevelt declaring war that Congress agreed to quickly.
Nuremberg Laws
A series of race-based laws passed in Nazi Germany that discriminated against Jews. One took citizenship away from Jews and forbade marriage between Jews and non-Jews, among other measures. The Nuremberg Laws treated Judaism as a hereditary characteristic, not a religious one. They stated that anyone with Jewish grandparents was considered a Jew.
Kristallnacht
A.k.a., The “Night of broken glass” refers to an outbreak of violence against Jews. It happened after a Polish Jewish student killed a German diplomat after his parent had been expelled from Germany that night, many local Nazi leaders and supporters dressed as civilians and organized violent attacks against Jewish communities in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Riders burned synagogues, loaded Jewish businesses, and destroyed Jewish homes. First responders didn’t respond as instructed soon Jewish children couldn’t attend schools, German Jews couldn’t own automobiles, and weren’t allowed in many places.
