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Lindbergh | This celebrity spoke our against Am. interventionism, believing the Bristih would drag us down in defeat with them. |
Appeasement | History proved that this policy followed at Munich did not bring "peace in our time" |
Havana | Under this act, Am. promised to protect and control any western hemisphere colony belonging to a nation conquered by Germany. |
Chamberlain | He represented GB at the Munich Conference. |
Pearl Harbor | December 7th, 1941. |
Radar | This device greatly aided the Royal Air Force during the "Battle of Britain" |
Panama | The US signed the Declaration of ______ warning all warring nations to keep their naval ships away from North and South Am. |
Cuba | FDR renounced Am's legal right, established by the Platt Amendment, to intervene in the affairs of this nation. |
Ultra Secret | Churchill allowed the British city of Coventry to be bombed in order to keep this secret. |
Flying Fortress | Am's B-17 long range bomber. |
Nazi | In 1923, agter his ___ thugs failed to take over this state of Bavaria in Germ. Hitler was sent to prison. |
Willkie | During the 1940 pres. election, he and FDR both supported the selective service registration of Amn males |
Nye | This north Dakota US Senator held hearings that seemed to show that bankers and "bomb makers" made huge profits from the Great War |
Dewey | He lost the nomination to Wendell willkie as candidate for Pres. at 1940 Republican Party convention. |
Japan | This industrialized nation decided to use military aggression to obtain the vital raw materials it lacked. |
Fifty | FDR transferred ___ old US destroyers to GB in exchange for Amn use of eight British naval bases. |
Poland | With Germany's invasion of this country on Sept. 1, 1939, war broke out in Europe |
Magic | This program allowed the US to break this secret code of the Japanese military high command |
Corporal | Hitler held this rank as a soldier during the Great War. |
Sonar | This was used to locate submerged subs. |
Roosevelt | He broke an Amn tradition followed since Washington, when he ran for a third term. |
Big Lie | Hitler beleived that dictators should rule by the ___ ___. |
Manchuria | even though Japan invaded ______ and was condemned by the LoN, the western democracies would not take action against Japan. |
Burma | The ____ Road was the Allies main route for supplies to the Chinese. |
Panay | Two Amn sailors died as a result of a Japanese attack on this US gunboat on the Yangtze river in 1937. |
Cash Carry | Under the Neutrality Act of 1937, all nations at war could only buy Amn goods on a "___ and ___" basis. |
Frank Knox | This Republican Senator supported FDR's "preparedness" policies, and helped to get the Neutrality Act of 1939 passed lifting the arms embargo. |
Mussolini | This fasist leader wanted to restore to Italy an empire rivaling the ancient Roman Empire. |
Greer | After this US destroyer was sunk, FDR issued orders to sink German subs on sight. |
Alien | The ___ Registration Act made it illegal for any person in Am to advocate the overthrow of the govt by force or violence. |
Buenos Aires | At this conference, Am joined twenty other nations in pledging to resist foreign intervention anywhere in the western hemisphere. |
Third Reich | Hitler believed his German empire would last for a thousand years. |
Blitzkrieg | Germany used this new style of warfare to quickly overrun and defeat the nations of Europe. |
Stalin | The world was shocked in 1939 when he signed a mutual non-aggression pact with Hitler. |
Sudetenland | A the Munich conference, Hitler prommised that if given this he would not make any more demands upon Czechoslovakia. |
Reuben James | The sinking of this US destroyer by a Germ sub clearly showed taht Am was involved in an "undeclared" war |
Ethiopia | In 1935 pursuin its dreams of empire, Italy invaded this African nation. |
Hitler | he believed that Aryan were the Master Race entitled to rule the world. |
Tojo | In 1941, a warlike government came to power in Japan under this General. |
World Court | FDR was unable to convince the Senate that Am should join the ___ ____ which had been set up by the LoN. |
Trade Aggrements | Without Senate approval, the Pres could raise or lower tariffs in response to the tariffs of other antions under this Act of 1934. |
Day of Infamy | FDR declared the Japs surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th as a ___ __ ______. |
Sea Lion | Hitler had to postpone operation ___ ____ the planned invaion of Great Briatin, due to the effective defense by the British air force. |
Billy Mitchell | He demonstratied the importance of air power in future naval battles when his bombers sank a captured German battleship in 1921. |
Mein Kampf | Hitlers book, declared that Germans were the Master Race and that the only good government was a dictatorship. |
Fransisco Franco | This Fasist General was supported by both Hitler and Mussolini during a bloody civil war in spain during the mid-1930's |
Alien Registration | This Act was commonly known as the Smith Act, it was passed in 1940 and made it illegal for any person in Am to advocate the overthrow of the government by force of violence. |
Canada | In August 1938, FDR made a speech outlining how he would extend the protection of the Monroe doctrine to the people of where? |
majority of voters approved | Isolationists in Am sought to have an ammendment to the Constitution passed which would allow the US to go to war only if a ___ |
Arsenal for Democracy | While runnign for reelection as Pres in1940, FDR announced that America must become this. |