Quiz 3 Flashcards
Britain’s use of__________ gave an extreme advantage.
radar
Many Americans once again began supporting__________ and trying to avoid involvement in international conflicts.
isolationism
In 1943 ____________________ held hearings to investigate these allegations.
Senator Gerald P.
The ______________ report documented the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses influenced the decisions to go to war.
The Nye Committee
Neutrality Act of
1935
The Neutrality Act made it _______________ to sell arms to any country at war.
Illegal for Americans
Japan, Italy, and Germany would become known as the_____________.
Axis Powers
As European tensions worsened, Congress passed the ___________, continuing the ban on selling arms to warring nations and requiring them to buy all non military supplies from the US on a “cash-and-carry” basis.
The Neutrality Act of 1935
In July 1937, FDR would go against the Neutrality Act of 1937 and would supply arms to China claiming that we would not allow an___________________ infect the world.
epidemic of lawlessness
British would test American neutrality when in 1940 they asked for ____________________ to replenish their fleet.
old American destroyers
Roosevelt would use a loop hole thus sending _________________ to Britain in exchange for America’s use of British based in the Atlantic.
50 ships
_______________________ wanted to repeal of the neutrality laws and stronger actions against Germany.
The Fight for Freedom Committee
______________ opposed any intervention to help the Allies.
The America First Committee
In 1940 FDR listed the Four Freedoms that the US and Britain stood for:
freedom of speech
freedom of worship
freedom from want
freedom from fear
FDR proposed the ______1_______ which allowed the US to _____2____ or _____2a_____ arms to any country considered”vital to the defence of the US”
- Lend-Lease Act
- lend
2a. lease
The _________________ declared that the entire western half of the Atlantic was part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral.
Hemispheric Defense Zone
In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met and developed the_____________________.
Atlantic Charter
The _____________ committed both nations a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas.
Atlantic Charter
Japan depend on the US for many key materials, including:
scrap iorn steel and oil
Strategic matericals were items
important for fighting a war
In 1941 FDR began sending lend-lease aid to
China and Russia
July 1941, Roosevelt froze all ________1___________ assets in the US, __________2___________, and ________3____________.
- Japanese
- reduced the oil shipments to Japan
- and sent MacArthur to the Philippines to build up American defense there
American intelligence had decoded Japanese messages that made it clear that Japan was preparing to go to war against the _____________.
US
November 27, American commanders at_______1________ naval base received a war warning from Washington D.C. but it did not mention_____2_____ as being a possible target.
- Pearl Harbor
2. Hawaii
________________,______________________,_____________, and _______________, were sunk or damaged.
Eight battleships, three destroyers and four other vessels
The Senate voted _____1_____ and the House voted_____2_____ to declare war on Japan.
- 82 to 0
2. 388 to 1
Hitler underestimated the strategy of the US, which was to veiw ______1________ as the larger threat but fight the _____2_____ with the ______3_______.
- Germany
- Japanese
- US Navy
On ________________, Germany and Italy both declared war on the US.
December 11
The _______________ was the mass extermination of millions of European Jews.
Holocaust
The Hebrew term for Holocaust is___________ meaning ___________.
Shoah “catastrophe”
Extermination camps were where___________,____________, and ____________ were sent to be executed.
men women and children
_________________ was a camp where persons are detained or confined.
Concentration Camps
Prominent Jewish emigrants included business people like _________ who resettled his family in Amsterdam in 1933, where his daughter ___________ wrote her well-known diary.
Otto Frank
Anne Frank
On January 20 1942 Nazi leaders met at the ______________ to coordinate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”
Wannsee Conference
The __________ took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans.
Nuremberg Laws
