World War 2 part 1

Germany(Axis)

Hitler

Italy(Axis)

Mussolini

Japan(Axis)

Emperor Hirohito and Minister Tojo

U.S (Allies)

FDR and Truman

Soviet Union(Allies)

Stalin

Great Britain(Allies)

Chamberlain and Churchill

France

Charles De Gaulle

Places Hitler demanded leading up to war

Rhineland (Buffer Zone between Germany and France)

Anschluss (Austria)

Lebensraum (Czechoslovakia)

Poland GB and France said no, Hitler invaded anyway, war started

Neutrality Act of 1935

USA cannot sell weapons to any country at war

Neutrality Act of 1936

USA cannot sell weapons to any country at war or loan money to any country at war

Neutrality Act of 1937

If countries had to buy non-military supplies from the USA, then they had to buy those non- military supplies on a cash and carry basis. This meant that the countries had to pay full price in cash and had to transport the materials on their own.

Neutrality Act of 1939

USA can sell weapons to any country on a cash and carry basis- country had to pay in cash and in full and had to transport weapons on their own

Lend Lease Act

USA could lend or lease weapons to any country that was “vital to the defense of the US” → this was designed to help the Allies once the war began in 1939

Selective Service and Training Act of 1940

First peacetime draft in history, required men 21-36 to register for the draft, when the US entered World War II the age requirement changed to 18-45.

Executive Order 8802

Workers in defense industries (war production factories for example) cannot be discriminated based on race, creed, color, or national origin

Executive Order 9066

Allows the War Department to declare any part of the US a military zone and they have the ability to remove people from the war zone as needed

**allowed the US government to forcibly evacuate any American of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast and place them in internment camps*

War Time Rationing 

limit certain goods during times of conflict to ensure fair distribution

Office of Price Administration:

regulate wages for workers and prices

Emergency Price Control Act

outlawed inflation during war and price gouging

War Production Board:

oversaw all military production

Office of War Mobilization

turned peacetime factories into war production factories, built new war factories to produce 24/7