USA Unit 1(0.8) Flashcards
What boost did the US give allies in joining WWI?
How many Americans died in the war?
What did Wilson’s Fourteen points become the basis of in 1919?
-A boost to allied morale- a major factor in Germany’s 1918 defeat.
-100,000 Americans died in Europe 1917-18.
-President Wilson’s determination to make a ‘world safe democracy’. His fourteen points were the basis of the treaty of Versailles.(1919)
What did Wilson hope the league of Nations would do?
Did Americans want to join the League?
What did Republicans want to do which made senate refuse to ratify the Versailles Treaty?
-Wilson hope the league of Nations would maintain world peace.
-NO. Many were opposed to US involvement in world affairs so had no wish to join the league.
-Republican ammendments to the League was refused by Wilson, inturn Senate refused to ratify the Versailles Treaty.
What did Democrat candidate Cox try to make his main campaign issue in 1920?
What did voters want instead? Election results?
-What did the US draw back into under Harding?
-US membership of the League.
-However, voters wanted a ‘return to normalcy’ promised by Harding.
-Harding would win 61% of the vote and the USA did not join the league.
-Isolationism
What were Americans wary of getting involved in during the 1920s-30s?
Who did Americans believe was responsible for US joining WWI?
-International affairs.
-Arms manufacturers and international bankers were blamed for the US joining WWI.
What socio-economic event made Americans focus on internal issues?
What prevented Roosevelt from external participation?
-(1929) The Great Depression began.
-Opinion in Congress tied Roosevelt from acting abroad.
What was the Neutrality Act passed by Congress (1935)?
What was the Second Neutrality Act?(1936)
-The first requirement on the president to put an impartial arms embargo on all belligerents.
-The second Neutrality Act was a ban on loans to belligerents.
How did the US support Britain during WII?
-Roosevelt worked successfully to revise neutrality legislation.
-Arms embargo was repealed allowing the USA to sell arms to Britain on a ‘cash and carry’ basis.
-Roosevelt also agreed to give Britain 40 ancient destroyers for bases in the Caribbean.
Was Isolationism still a powerful belief during WWII?
What did Roosevelt assure Americans in the 1940 campaign?
How did the economic situation help Roosevelt?
-Yes, campaings against US involvement in foreign wars had millions of supporters.
-Roosevelt assured Americans that ‘your boys are not going to be sent to foreign wars’.
-Assisted by the economic boom resulting from WII many Americans were pleased with Roosevelt’s previous term winning him 55% of the vote.
How much money did Roosevelt convince US to lend-lease to Britain?
When did Japan bomb pearl Harbor?
- Aid was provided worth $7 billion.
-Us employed economic sanctions on Japan who retaliated through bombing Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US entered WWI in response.
