ch 25 amstud vocab

Atlantic Charter

1. August 14, 1941

2. Signed by

   1. FDR

   2. Winston Churchill

3. Vision for peace after war

4. Key Points

   1. Self-Determination

   2. No territorial expansion

   3. Economic cooperation

   4. Freedom of the Seas

   5. International Cooperation for Peace

   6. Disarmament

Manhattan Project

1. Harness atomic energy into a weapon

2. Atomic bomb

3. Oppenheimer

4. 2 bombs were dropped on Japan

   1. Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

   2. Nagasaki on August 9, 1945

7th Pan-American Conference

1. Montevideo, Uruguay

2. 1933

3. FDR pledged for the us no longer intervene in Latin America affairs

America First Organization

1. American isolationist group

2. Against entry into WWII

American Bund

1. American Nazi organization

2. Tried to gain Nazi support from German-Americans

Cash and Carry program

1. Neutrality Act of 1939

2. Countries could buy US war materials if they

   1. Used cash money

   2. Transported themselves

3. Kept US uninvolved

Charles Lindbergh

1. Aviator

2. Member of America First committee

Dawes Plan

1. Plan to give Germany money to rebuild economy and pay back war debts later

Fritz Julius Kuhn

1. Nazi Activist

2. Elected leader of American Bund

Good Neighbor Policy

1. FDR’s plan of being a “good neighbor” towards Latin America countries to garner their support against fascist regimes

2. Pan-American Conferences

3. Nullifying Platt Amendment

4. No more Dollar Diplomacy

Hitler

1. Leader of Nazis

2. Author of Mein Kampf

3. German Fuhrer during WWII

Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

1. December 7, 1941

2. Japanese attack on Hawaiian naval base

3. Pushed US to join war

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1. August 27, 1928

2. 15 nations

3. Outlaw war

4. No enforcement

   1. Didn’t really do anything

Lend-Lease Act

Allowed US to send war supplies to Allied Nations

Mussolini

1. Fascist leader of Italy

   1. 1922-1943

2. Created Fascism

3. Executed in 1945

Nazism

1. Hitler’s Party

2. Authoritarian

3. Anti-semetic

4. Supremacy of the Aryan race

5. Militaristic and Expansionist

Neutrality Acts

1. Aimed to keep US out of war

2. 1935

   1. Embargo on war supplies with warring nations

3. 1936

   1. Reinforced 1935 provisions

4. 1937

   1. Extended embargo to civil wars

   2. trade - cash and carry

5. 1939

   1. Ended embargo

   2. All trade - cash and carry

Selective Service Act of 1940

1. All men ages 21-45 had to register for draft

2. Passed due to threat of WWII

3. Increased size of US Armed forces

Stalin

1. Leader of Soviet Union

   1. 1924-1953

2. Dictator

3. Totalitarian

4. Communist

Tojo

1. General

2. Japanese Prime Minister

   1. 1941-1944

3. Fascist

4. Militarist

5. Executed in 1948

Totalitarianism

1. Government has complete control over public and private society

2. Little individual freedom

3. Completely centralized government

4. Relied on propaganda and repression of opposition

Washington Conference of 1921

1. Naval disarmament in East Asia following WWI

2. Treaties

   1. Five-Power

      1. Set naval construction limits

   2. Four-Power

      1. Respect of each other’s Pacific Territories

         1. US

         2. UK

         3. Japan

         4. France

   3. Nine-Power

      1. Reaffirmed China’s sovereignty