history ww11 test

new deal

• laws passed by FDR

• used to stabilize the country after the great depression

fireside chat

• radio broadcasts done by president to explain thought process to Americans

neutrality act of 1935

• passed after Italy invaded Ethiopia

• prevented US from providing “arms, ammunition, and other war materials” to countries at war

neutrality act of 1937

• passed during Spanish Civil War

• US cannot provide “arms, ammunition, and other war materials” to countries involved in a civil war

• US ships cannot transport people or items to belligerents

neutrality act of 1939

• passed after Germany invaded Czechoslovakia

• cash and carry established

cash and carry

• no war loans

• belligerent nations can purchase war materials from the US but only if they can pay

evian conference

• organized by FDR

• to discuss Jewish refugee crisis

• ineffective → no country wanted to take in excessive Jewish exiles

destroyer for bases agreement

• US gives GB ships for “free” and GB lets US build naval bases on British colonial territory

lend lease program

• FDR will send war materials to countries he thinks are vital to US defense for free

isolationism

• remaining apart from affairs or interests of other groups, especially politically

why was Germany was unhappy

• treaty of versailles

  • unstable government

  • hyperinflation

  • abolished air-force

  • colonies taken

  • forbade annexation of Poland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia

1922 + 1923

• mussolini fascism in Italy

• nazi party in Germany

• USSR formed

1933

• Hitler becomes chancellor

1935

• nuremburg laws established

  • Jews denied citizenship

  • relationships between Jews/non Jews illegal

Kristallnacht

• massacre against Jews/Jewish businesses

1938

• Kristallnacht

• Hitler takes Austria

• munich conference

munich conference

• to appease Hitler, he is given Sudetenland in exchange for not invading further

1939

• Hitler takes Czechoslovakia

• Hitler takes Poland

• GB + France declare war

• non aggression pact between Germany and SU

executive order 9066

• forcibly removed over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the west coast

pearl harbor

• 1941

• Japan wants to expand without interference

• mad about US oil embargo

• Japan destroy US + navy air-force

result from pearl harbor

• US declares war on Japan

• atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

• Japan surrenders