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28 Cards in this Set
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Good Neighbor Policy with Hoover
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carried through FDR...he improved upon this.
"No state has a right tto interefere with other's affiars" This was a clear retreta from the roosevelt Corollary and Monroe Doctrine |
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What showed a serious commitment to the Good Neighbor Policy and what was it helping to do
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Withdrawing forces from Haiti and the DR shows seriousness to the cause
The "Hands off" policy t o the Carribean estbalishes this idea of beter relations with countries fro WWW and the Cold war |
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What was the Ludlow Amendment and what did it demonstrate
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National referendum on going to war
Demonstrates isolationism |
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When does FDR realize he needs to act
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When germany invades Poland and we enter in 1941 and he steps to break out of Neautrality
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What was the Munich Pact
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1938...neville Chamberlain (British prime minister) gives Sudetenland to Germany in hopes of avoiding war
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Neutrality Acts
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1935-1937
Outlawd arms sales and loans to a nation at war during this time American companies heavily invested in Nazi Germany |
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German-Soviet Nonagression Pact
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Hitler and Stalin agreed their nations wouldn't fight and that htey would divide Poland after Germany invades it
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example of a law that restricts jews freedom
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Nuremberg Laws of 1935
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1) Cash-and-Carry
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amendment to Neutrality Acts hoping it would aid allies but it didn't stop the nazis
the public didn't support the war |
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How did htey get people for the war
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Selective Service and Training Act...first peace time draft
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Lend-Lease
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supply war material to Britain or any nation important to the defense of the US
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what were Cash-and-Carry and Lend-Lease significant of
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they were showing that the US was coming out of isolatoinism closer to intervention
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what did Japan think of Pearl Harbor
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that war was imminent and that the suprirse attack would destroy US's Pacific fleet and make FDR seek accomodation with the US
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when was pearl harbor and what happened a day later
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december 7, 1941....a day later Congress approves declaration of war against japan
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what happened december 11
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hitler declares war on the uS followed by Mussolini
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what were new strategies being utilized to prepare for war?
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--joint cheifs of staff
--and the OSS --lots of new boards like the WPB and the WMC |
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who was Henry J. Kaiser
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"sir launchalot"....introduced a new production method that greatly incrased the rate in which ships could be created
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what developed domestically during the war
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the "sunbelt"...poured over 40 billioni dollars into the west
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what was significant about world war 2 in terms of historical knowledge with ecnomies
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it was the only time in the 20th century where there was an economic shift towards equality
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agribusiness
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time where large-scale farmers prospered
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Smith--Conllary War Labor Disputes Act
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president coudl take inflation threatend war ecnomy
OPA instituioned rationing "use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without" |
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how was money raised for the war
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war bonds which curtailed inflation and raise dhalf of money used to finance war
and the Revenue aCt of 1942 which was the first time taxing of middle and lower classes! |
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what were the scientific advantages
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"a wizard war"
the OSRD made lot of new types of weapons and were racing to create the atomic bomb --biggest project was the Manhattan Project: develop |
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what were important medical advancements
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things like blood-transfusions and blood banking
MASH was big |
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How was propaganda srpead
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Office of Censorship and Office of war Information...connect to CPI
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what was D day
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june 6, 1944...stromed the shores of Normandy
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battle of the bulge
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american victory against germans that indicated end was near
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what were FDR's two main goals for the war
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1) total defeat of the Axis at the least possible cost of american lives
2) enlistment of a world order strong enough to preserve peace, open trade and ensure national self determination |
