APUSH CH 22.1 p. 862-874

The Four Freedoms

freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear.

Norman Rockwell

The Good Neighbor Policy

the US repudiated the right to intervene militarily in the internal affairs of Latin American countries (mixed results)

Isolationism

the 1930’s version on Americans long-standing desire to avoid foreign entanglement as long as they didn’t really effect America neutrality AN

Neutrality Acts

Banned travel on belligerents ships and the sale of arms to countries at war. Ma

Munich Conferences/Agreement

Hitler got Sudetenland (Neville Chamberlain (British prime minister) thought the he had guaranteed "peace of our time”)

Nazi Blitzkrieg

a style of war describe as “lighting war”

The Axis

Germany, Italy, Japan military alliance

Lend-Lease Act

authorized military aid so long as countries promised to return in all after the war

The Battle of Midway Island

Navy battle that started with American codebreakers managing to decipher communication codes from the Japanese which forewarned them about the timing of the assault at Midway so Americans prepared a counterattack where 4 aircraft carriers and navel ships were destroyed. (KNOWN AS L the turning point of the pacific naval war).

The Allied Forces

America, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union

D-DAY

the massive Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy, France, led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. As the largest amphibious invasion in history, it opened a crucial Western Front, allowing Allied forces to liberate France and advance toward Germany

The Holocaust

The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews and millions of others (Roma, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals) by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.