Study Guide 2sb Flashcards
This was a policy requested by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
meaning any country that wanted something from the US that they produce, and you have the money we will sell it to you but you have to come over and get it yourself
Cash n Carry
He was known as “The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy”. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Georgia.
Carl Vinson
This was a political term applied to voters in the Southern United States who voted solely for candidates who represented the Democratic Party.
Yellow dog democrats
Occurred in 1940 this was the first time this had happened during peace-time. It was supposed to last a year but was voted to be extended.
first peace-time draft
Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II. He was mentioned by name in Adolf Hitler’s speech of December 11, 1941, in which Hitler asked for a German declaration of war against the United States.
Frank Knox
This mandated a 20% increase in strength of the United States Navy”.[1] It represented the United States’ response to the Japanese invasion of China and the German annexation of Austria
‘Vinson Acts’-$4 billion for defense
a U.S. policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to take control of any independent state in North or South America would be viewed as “the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.”
Monroe Doctrine
- They were three fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force (RAF), formed with volunteer pilots from the United States during the early days of World War II
- first Americans involved in WW2
Eagle Squadrons
It outlined a permanent plan for mutual defense overseas between the United States and Canada.
Ogdensburg Agreement
They were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers.
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
This was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, the Soviet Union and other countries, the act permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle.
Lend-Lease enacted
Draft Law extended-by one vote in the House
Selective service act of 1940
The Germans were invading France and the British were forced to leave, retreat was a victory for allies.
Dunkerk
Third united navy Nimitz class navel carrier
USS Carl Vinson
Hitlers field marshal as the beginning of the war
Field marshal Hermann Goering
Journalist who reported on the German bombings in London
Edward Murrow
Secretary of War who oversaw the Manhattan project
Henry L. Stimson
Admiral in US Navy protests against re-deployment of the pacific portion of the fleet
Admiral James Otto Richardson
Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt about post war Europe
Atlantic Charter
Commander of Pearl Harbor was four star general demoted to 2 star after bombing
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
Commander of the base during Pearl Harbor
Lt. General Walter C. Short
Known as the father of the united nations. Roosevelts secretary of state
Cordell Hull
Method of transferring things from ship to ship while underway
Replenishment by Sea
Where american troops surrendered to the Japanese.
Commander executed 98 civilians.
Wake Island 23 Dec 1941
