WW2 Preparations Flashcards
What were the US neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)?
Stated that if a foreign country was in a war, certain restrictions would go into effect.
What was the purpose of the neutrality acts?
To prevent US entanglement in foreign affairs.
How did the Spanish Civil War start?
A group of Spanish rebels rose against the left-wing republic of Madrid and loyalist Regime.
Who led the Spanish Rebels?
Fascist Francisco Franco
Which countries aided the Spanish rebels?
Germany and Italy
Which country supported the loyalist Regime?
Soviet Union
What was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade?
A group of soldiers and veterans that supported the Loyalist party.
The Japanese invaded ______.
China/Manchuria
What did FDR do in his Quarantine speech?
He proposed economic embargos against aggresive dictators.
Japanese planes sunk an American ship called:
Panay
How did Hitler violate the treaty of Versailles?
He introduced a German military.
At a conference, western democracies allowed Hitler to keep this land, with the hope of him stopping invading other countries.
Sudetenland
Hitler took over all of this country in March 1939.
Czechoslovakia
Germany- Soviet treaty
Hitler-Stalin pact
WW2 started when Hitler invaded this country.
Poland
What was the US Neutrality Act 1939?
The act allowed for European democracies to buy US ammunition as long as they paid in cash and transported in their own ships.
What effect did the increase in war supplies demand have on the US economy?
It ended the depression since people were needed to organize a war effort.
Why was the start of the war called a “phony war”.
The UK and France were not really militarily involved in the war yet.
The Soviet took over this country even though Congress loaned $30 million dollars to them.
Finland
How did the “phony war” end?
Hitler took over multiple nearby European countries.
This important country eventually fell to Hitler.
France
Congress passed this, which initiated a peacetime draft.
a conscription law
FDR and Congress set out to build what , after realizing that England was the only country that was in the way of total European domination.
airfleets + a 2 ocean navy
What did the US promise in the Havana Conference?
To protect Latin America from German Aggression.
