F. World War II

Mussolini

Italian COMMUNIST dictator

Facism

Communism

Hitler

COMMUNIST dictator of NAZI-GERMANY

Stalin

Communist Dictator of USSR (Soviet Union -- NOW RUSSIA)

Franco

Maintained Spanish "neutrality" -- leaned PRO-AXIS POWERS

Isolationism

United States, post WWI, remained isolationist, avoiding foreign entanglements

Neutrality Acts

passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939 to keep America out of wars

Neutrality Act of 1935

Prohibited all shipment of ARMS & WEAPONS to any nation at war

Neutrality Act of 1936

Renewed NAO1935, prohibiting shipment of ARMS & WEAPONS to any nation at war, adding a limit to loans to nations at war

Neutrality Act of 1937

Allowed for Cash and Carry -- protocool where ALLIED POWERS NATIONS could PURCHASE WEAPONS IN CASH & CARRY THEM ON THEIR OWN SHIPS BACK

Neutrality Act of 1939

Favoured ALLIED POWERS while remaining TECHNICALLY NEUTRAL

Cash & Carry

protocool where ALLIED POWERS NATIONS could PURCHASE WEAPONS IN CASH & CARRY THEM ON THEIR OWN SHIPS BACK

Munich Appeasement

1938, allowed NAZI GERMANY to OCCUPY the SUDETENLAND (Western Croatia) in hopes of APPEASEMENT

Non-Agression Pact / Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

August 23-1939, 10 year NON-AGRESSION treaty between USSR & NAZI GERMANY

Lend-Lease

Allowed FDR to LEND & LEASE supplies to ALLIED NATIONS when considered VITAL FOR AMERICAN DEFENSE

Operation Barbossa

June 22-1941, AXIS INVASION of USSR LAUNCHED by NAZI GERMANY

Atlantic Charter

1941 Joint Declaration between FDR & British Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL outlining POST-WAR GOALS -- FOUNDATION of the UNITED NATIONS

Pearl Harbor

December 7-1941, ATTACK on UNITED STATES MILITARY BASE in Hawaii, LAUNCHED by JAPAN, caused UNITED STATES to ENTER INTO WWII

MS St. Louis

SHIP carrying 937 REFUGEES FLEEING NAZI GERMANY, DENIED entry into CUBA, US, CANADA, forced to RETURN TO EUROPE

Rosie the Riveter

UNITED STATES promotional PROPAGANDA to convince WOMEN on the HOMEFRONT to JOIN THE WAR EFFORTS / TAKE OVER JOBS

Office of Price Administration

CREATED to MANAGE RATIONING and CONSERVATION efforts

Double-V Campaign

Convinced AFRICAN AMERICANS to JOIN THE WAR EFFORTS while also FIGHTing for EQUALITY

Navajo Code Talkers

US MARINES who TRANSMITTED MESSAGES in their traditionally SPOKEN language

Executive Order 9066

allowed MILITARY to REMOVE PEOPLE from "MILITARY AREAS" to SECURE NATION against ESPIONAGE

D-Day

June 6-1944, the day that ALLIED FORCES began their invasion on NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE

Manhattna Project

The TOP-SECRET project that the UNITED STATES was DEVELOPING an ATOMIC BOMB