WWII Vocab Flashcards
US, Great Britain, USSR, France
Allies
Become isolated from aggressive countries (Japan and Germany)
Quarantine speech
Replaces big stick policy. economic cooperation instead of military force wth Latin American countries. FDR
Good Neighbor Policy
- no sale of weapons to hostile countries
- no loans to belligerent
- no traveling on vessels of belligerent nations
Neutrality acts 1935,1937
Japan bombed an american boat that was getting help to Americans in China. 1937
Panay incident deal
nation above family. leader: father of the country. dictator.
fascism
just let belligerent countries be. allows hitler to get stronger. doesn’t want WWI
appeasement policy
Europeans had to pay for arms in cash and provide their own ships
“cash and carry” policy
“give weapons for free”
“if my neighbors house was on fire I would give them my hose or else my house would go on fire”
lend-lease act
his job was to investigate why we went to WWI and said it was $$ and called them merchants of death
Gerald nye
Japanese-Americans are sent to concentration camps that are in Cali after the effects of the pearl habor
Internment camps
isolationist group
did not want an America to enter the war
America 1st committee
britains prime minister
Winston Churchill
Russian dictator. killed 1 million Jews.
Joseph Stalin
“give battleship to British and British gives us navel bases”
destroyer for bases deal