US Involvement in WWII

Seen as an alternative to democracy, absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a centralized institution.

The US would give weapons to the Allies, but they had to pay in cash and bring the weapons back themselves.

Agreement between US and England that allowed the transfer of US warships to the Royal Navy

Where did the UN eventually become located in?

Which two nations were seen as the world super powers after the war?

Major weapon of the western hemisphere

FDR only had two terms

The war in Europe ended when Russia invaded and took Berlin

Stripped Jews of their German citizenship and introduced a new distinction between "Reich citizens" and "nationals"

England and France declared war on Sept. 3, 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland

In 1933, FDR recognized which nations for the first time?

Which of these things did the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 36, and 37 NOT say?

Who was accused of giving most of western Europe to the USSR?

The Nye committee declared that the true blame for US involvement in WWI was because of these 2 things:

When the US entered the war, they focused on defeating Germany before Japan because they were the bigger threat

Franco and the Republicans were supported by FDR in the Spanish Civil War

This program was created against the USSR and set up a defensive alliance of European countries.

What is island-hopping?

Which of these is NOT one of the primary dictators?

Who was the most progressive member of the meeting in Yalta?

The US continued to ship oil and iron to Japan even after they joined forces with Germany and invaded China

Prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between Jews

Who was the most conservative member of the meeting in Yalta?

Who kept calling for military preparedness and more money for military spending?

Which event opened up the 2nd front?

Which of these Concentration camps was the largest?

The major US battle of was The Battle of the Bulge

FDR was an (interventionist/isolationist) in his relations towards Latin America

Cordell Hull, FDR's sec of state, believed in _____ tariffs and that ______ wars beget shooting wars

Government led by a dictator with complete power, suppresses opposition and criticism, and emphasizes nationalism/racism

Where was the first US attack?

It takes years for Poland to fall after the German invasion

Who broke the Treaty of Versailles to get more power?

The battle that took place six months after Pearl Harbor, a great American victory against Japan

US foreign policy was a policy of...

Major Pacific weapon

Which is NOT true of the German invasion of France?

Einsatzgruppen

Before his first attack, Hitler first signed a treaty with...

The "Savior of the Western World"

Which nation lost the most people in WWII?

What impact did the Neutrality Acts along with the Nye Committee have on the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War?

Japanese suicide fighter jets

This gave the top Nazi leaders fair trials, but then executed them

What was the turning point of WWII?

What did the Pearl Harbor invasion teach the US?

Hitler gained power by using the anger of the people opposing the Versailles Treaty and the fear of Great Depression

Blitzkrieg

FDR's policy toward Latin America is known as what?

Nazism is a form of fascism

Who promised free elections for eastern countries, but never gave it to them?

Lend-lease

Japan surrendered after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

FDR moved ________ his relative TR's policy of The Roosevelt Corollary in relations with Latin America

This instituted the creation of the World Bank and the US dollar became primary currency

Most Americans

The first major defeat for Germany was when they were pushed back at Stalingrad and 100,000 of them had to surrender

The name given to Britain's policy in the 1930's of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked.

The political boundary that divided Europe from the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War, Soviet domination for 50 yrs

Organization created by the US, England, France, China, and Russia to maintain international peace.