American History Chapter 25: Section 25.2

organized to keep America out of the war

America 1st Committee

the US declared neutrality before the war began (but they did trade extensively with Allied nations)

Neutrality Act of 1937

Secretary of State during WWII

Cordell Hull

sitting-down war; Poland was conquered and there were no more battles for 7 months

Sitzkrieg

broke the stalemate by invading and conquering Denmark and Norway

Germany

head of the Nazi puppet government in Scandinavia

Vidkun Quisling

Germany broke the Allied line in Europe and pushed them back to?

Dunkirk

what from England saved 300,000 Allied soldiers from captures?

civilian boats

when did France surrender?

June 1940

French capital that did not fall under German control

Vichy government

led by Charles de Gaulle

Free French Government

Hitler’s plan to conquer Great Britain; failed plan

Operation Sea Lion

prime minister of Britain after Chamberlain resigned

Winston Churchill

devastated Germany’s Luftwaffe and gave them their first major defeat

England

1. For 3 months, Germany bombed England (London Blitz) 

2. England devastated Germany’s Luftwaffe and gave them their first major defeat

Battle of Britain

required men between 18-65 to register with their local draft boards

Selective Training and Service Act

(the Desert Fox) led the Africa Korps to reconquer the territory in Africa that was lost to the British

Erwin Rommel

Congress granted FDR powers to sell, lease, lend, or dispose of war materials

Lend-Lease Act

broke his truce with Russia and invaded them in 1941; the Russian winter defeated them and Hitler was forced to retreat (1942)

Hitler

US gunboat that the Japanese sunk on the Yangtze River (the Panay Incident)

Panay

became the military leader of Japan

Hideki Tojo

invaded Indochina and officially severed their relationship with the US

Japan

Japan attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

how many American soldiers were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack?

3,500

ships built solely for the purpose of transporting supplies for the war effort

Liberty ships

American businesses switched to war materials production; directed by Donald Nelson

War Production Board

(OWM) wartime cabinet created by FDR

Office of War Mobilization

(WAC) was created to draft women

A Women’s Army Corps

the women’s division of the navy

WAVES

became the symbol of the female working population 

Rosie the Riveter