WWII Flashcards
axis powers
Japan, Italy, and Germany. against the Allied powers
“cash and carry”
Britain could buy US arms if it used its own ships and paid cash
America First Committee
Pro-isolationists campaigned and warned against going in war
destroyers-for-base deal
Britain received 50 US destroyers in exchange for giving the US the right to build military bases on the British islands in the Caribbean
Selective service act
registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 35 and the training of 1.2 million troops in one year
“Lend-lease” Act
ended the cash-and-carry requirement of the Neutrality Act; Britain could obtain the US arms on credit
US would send supplies to countries that were victim of aggression. By being the “great arsenal of democracy” the US would avoid having to fight
Atlantic Charter
FDR met Churchill to discuss joint military strategy and what their general principles would be when the war ended: self determination, free trade, no territorial gains, new collective security organization
Shoot-on-sight
US Navy escorted British ships carrying materials from the US; FDR ordered the Navy to attack all German ships on sight
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on US military base in Hawaii; US declaration of war shortly followed.
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese-born Americans and immigrants were sent to internment camps
Revenue Act of 1942
Raised the top income-tax rate in response to the expenditure on the war
bond drives
in order to finance the war, raised money
office of price administration (OPA)
regulated civilian’s lives by freezing prices, wages, and rents and rationing commodies
war labor board
mediated disputes between management and labor, to prevent strikes and out of control wage increases.
Smith-Collanlly Anti-Strike Act
empowered the government to take over war-related businesses whose operations were threatened by a strike.
