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36 Cards in this Set
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Neutrality act of 1939 |
Cash and carry- trade with us must be in real money and they must come here |
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Selective service act |
Authorized the draft in 1940 |
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Destroyers for bases deal |
We gave British old destroyers for land in Pacific |
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Peacetime draft |
1941 everyone had to register for the draft |
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America first committee |
Anti-interventionalist isolationist group, supported defending our territory |
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Wendell willkie |
Ran against fdr in election of 1940. Fdr wins for 3rd term |
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Four freedoms |
Speech worship want free of fear, broke with non interventionalism |
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Lend lease act |
Gave us permission to arm allies so as to defend the us |
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Atlantic charter |
Established post war goals for us and Britain. Lead to un |
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Admiral yamamoto |
Chef Japanese navey |
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Perl harbor |
12/7/41 |
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12/8/1941 |
Us declares war on Japan |
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War production board |
Oversaw wartime production halted production of nonessential items |
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Office of price administration |
Rationing |
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Business and industry |
Ended depression |
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Office of research and development |
Radar sonar penicillin Manhatten project |
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Financing the war |
Increased income tax and war bonds |
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Office of information |
Propaganda |
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Stalingrad |
Russian town allies eventually won after 5 months |
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Edwin rommel |
Dessert fox axis commander of afrika Korps in North Africa tried to kill Hitler didn't committed suicide to protect family |
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Operation torch |
November 1942 clear axis troop to open Mediterranean Sea to allies |
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George s palton |
Really rough old commander |
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Ely alamein |
Oct to Nov 1942 allies halt axis powers, blocked them from Egypt and suez canal |
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Casablanca conference |
Churchill and fdr agree to terms of Italian invasion call for absolute surrender |
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Invasion of italy |
September 1943 Ally factory in North Africa lead to invasion in Sicily and southern Italy |
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Invasion of italy |
Musso Linie is overthrown and killed |
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Social republic |
South Italy declares war on North italy |
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D day |
June 6 1944 allies storm French Normandy largest sword gold Juno Utah and Omaha |
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Tehran conference |
1st meeting for Stalin fdr church hill ussr invades german England and France liberate dm france |
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Yalta conference |
Divided Deutschland into occupation zones |
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Death of fdr |
April 12th 1945 |
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Truman |
Replaces him as pres |
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Death of mossolini |
April 28th 1945 |
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Battle of berlin |
Last European ww2 battle April 16th to may 2nd 1945 |
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Ve day |
May 7th 1945, war in Europe over we party hard |
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Potsdam conference |
Unconditional surrender of japenese |
