Land Lease Act
- US lends weapons to Britain
- no more US neutrality
- more factories which reduced unemployment
good neighbor policy
- US wants to become better allies with countries in Latin America
- won’t invade them anymore
Cash and carry policy
- countries would pay the US for weapons in cash
- transport the weapons in their own ships
America First Committee
- group of policymakers that believed that it wasn’t in America’s interest to participate in the war
- similar to present day thinking
London Conference
- 66 nations go to address worldwide depression
- US leaves
- represents an isolationist stance to the world
Neutrality Act of 1939
- allies could buy war materials
- leads to cash and carry policy
Election of 1940
- FDR wins a landslide
- first time a president has won a third term
Invasion of Soviet Union by Germany
- Hitler invades Russia for resources
- shows Hitler will do whatever he wants to do
Atlantic Charter
- US conference between Britain
- agree to help Britain through providing ships
- signals US for allies
European Theater
- war fought in europe
- allies take over Italy and South Africa
- goal was to squeeze german troops back into Germany
Pacific Theater
- war fought in the pacific
- Phillipines was key
- island hopping was the strategy
D-day
- largest invasion in history
- allies stormed the normandy beaches
- proved successful
Island Hopping
- US would capture an island
- skip the middle and go to the next
- middle island would fall they thought
Pearl Harbour
- Japan fleet attacks naval base
- changed americas views about isolation
Battle of Bulge
- last battle for germany
- germany lost
- hitler commited suicide weeks later
Double V campaign
- victory at home and abroad
- end jim crow and segregation
- win the war
Navajo code talkers
- done by the Navajo
- Japanese couldn’t understand what was being said, so nothing could be intercepted
Korematsu vs US
- took the supreme court
- he challenged if the internment camps were constitutional
- supreme court said that the camps were constitutional
UN
- full resources of allies
- 1 peace treaty
- goal was to work together to make sure that democracy spread
Nuremberg Trials
- bring Nazi’s to justice
- creation of Human Rights declaration
Potsdam conference
- FDR replaced with Truman here
- agree to drop atomic bomb as well
Manhatten project
- secretly developed atomic bomb
- brought the end of the war
Battle of Midway
- turning point in pacific front
- Japan lose 4 aircraft carries
- crucial location
Harry Truman
- becomes president after FDR
- orders dropping of atomic bomb
