Chapter 24 Section 4: From Isolationism to War

FDR

President of the United States during World War II

Neutrality Acts

A series of laws, passed by congress in 1935, 1936, & 1937, that prevented the U.S. from getting involved in the wars of other countries

cash and carry

a policy that permitted trading nonmilitary goods with fighting nations as long as those nations paid cash and transported the cargo themselves

America First Committee

a group formed in 1940 by isolationists to block further aid to Britain

Election of 1940

the election in which Franklin Roosevelt defeated his Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie, by assuring the people that they would not be fighting in any foreign wars

Lend-Lease Act

a 1941 law that allowed the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security (the United States helped Britain and the Soviet Union after this law was passed)

General Tojo Hideki

a Japanese militant army officer who supported war against the United States and became prime minister in October 1941

Pearl Harbor

the attack that took place on December 7, 1941 that caused the United States to declare war on Japan (2,400 Americans were killed, 1,200 were wounded, and many war planes and battle ships were damaged)

Japans Altamten

All economic embargos will end

admiral chuichi nagumo

Carries out the attack on peral harbor

admiral Isoroku yamamoto

ordered to plan the attack on peral harbor, was overall against war with America.