A | B |
policy of collaboration | Vichy France adopted this policy of close cooperation with Germany. |
Resistance movement | It consisted of groups of French citizens whose activities ranged from distributing anti-German leaflets to sabotoging German operations in France. |
Allies | the group of countries who opposed the Axis Powers |
RAF | Britain's Royal Air Force |
lebensraum | living space |
Neutrality Acts | They banned the U.S. from providing weapons to nations at war; banned loans to such nations; prevented the US from selling arms even to nations that were trying to defend themselves from aggression. |
cash and carry | The Neutrality Acts permitted trade with fighting nations in nonmilitary goods as long as those nations paid cash and transported the cargo themselves |
America First Committee | A group of isolationists formed this group of more thatn 800,000 members to block further aid by the US to Britain |
Lend-lease Act | Congress passed this act authorizing the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American Security. |