A Decade of Crisis and Strategies Flashcards
(24 cards)
Isolationists-
- Stay out of international
affairs - Maintain a neutral status
- Emphasize home defense
- Avoid alliances, treaties
and demonstrations of
support - Pull back from world
trade
Interventionists-
- Engage in international
affairs - Peacemaker between
countries - Emphasize a war
readiness at all times - Support countries that
help to protect econ/pol.
interests
Japan invaded Manchuria for
coal and iron ore leads to…
Stimson Doctrine-
Stimson Doctrine-
US will not
recognize gains made by force
but took no direct action
Japan invaded mainland China leads to…
-Placed an oil embargo on Japan
-Sent food and other supplies to
China
-Italy Annexed Ethiopia
-Germany reoccupied the
Rhineland
-Japan expanded further into China
leads to..
Congress Passes Neutrality Acts:
-Prohibited all weapons’
shipments
-Forbid citizens to travel abroad
-Forbid foreign loans and bills of
credit
War between Japan/China
Intensifies.
Rape of Nanjing occurs (Japanese
Genocide against the Chinese)
leads to…
Roosevelt’s Quarantine
Speech.
Roosevelt’s Quarantine
Speech.
He warns of the dangers of
American isolationism and what
it could encourage aggressors
to do.
Hitler’s Germany was granted
the Sudetenland in N. Czech
Hitler breaks Munich Pact and
takes all of Czech. leads too
Roosevelt authorizes a
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Preparedness Program
Increase army/navy budgets
for defense purposes only
Germany invaded Poland
Britain/France Declare war leads too
Selective Service Act:
Selective Service Act:
Required all 21-35 year old men to
register for draft
Japan invaded SE Asia leads to…
Lend/Lease Act and Atlantic Charter Signed
Lend/Lease Act
Authorized lending of war
materials to certain nations:
Britain, China and USSR
Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill establish goals
in fighting a war:
Countries that
received aid from
the US under the
Lend Lease Act.
They were all
fighting either
Germany or Japan
at the time.
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
in Hawaii
Goal was to knock out the US Pacific
navy leads to…
US Declares war on both Japan
and Germany
Once America declares war, the US joins Great Britain and the
USSR as the _____ or allies.
“Grand Alliance”
France was invaded by _____and removed from the war
effort
Nazi Germany
_______ signed an agreement in 1938 and became
known as the Axis powers.
Germany, Japan and Italy
The war was fought in two major areas or “theaters…
Europe and the
Pacific.
In the European theater, the USSR after being invaded by Nazi
Germany, would fight in the ____.
East
American and British forces would
fight in _____, Italy and eventually France
North Africa
US was _____ in its war against Japan in the Pacific.
virtually alone
