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Washington DIsarmament Conference
Included delegates from the US Japan GB and six other nations. Objective was a political settlement of the tense Asian situation, but the most pressing issue was the naval race between US and Japan. -
Kellog Briand Pact
Between U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellog and French premier Aristide Briand. Pledged its signoraties, eventually including nearly all nations, to shun war as an instrument of policy -
Good Neighbor Policy
Declared America's intention to use cooperation and friendship in place of threats and armed intervention in its dealings with Latin America -
Adolf Hitler
Came to power in Germany as the head of the National Socialist, or Nazi, movement. He blamed the Jews for all of Germany's ills and asserted the supremacy of the race of blond, blue eyed Germans -
Neutrality Acts
The 1935 and 1936 acts forbade selling munitions or lending money to beligerents in a war. The 1937 act required that all remaining trade be conducted ona cash-and-carry basis -
Axis Powers
The three totalitarian nations signed an anti-Comintern pact completing a Berlin Rome Tokyo Axis (alliance) -
Austria
Hitler takes over Austria and six months later demands the Sudetenlands -
World War II
Hitler begins war by invading Poland -
Lend-Lease
This would allow the president to sell, lend, lease, or transfer war materials to any country whose defense he declared as vital to that of the US -
United Nations
Roosevelt and Churchill signed this and pledged to fight together until the Axis powers were defeated -
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Banned racial discrimination in war industires -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese war planes attacked US naval forces at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, sinking several ships and killing more than 2400 American sailors. This marks America's entrance to WWII -
Executive Order 9066
Army order to move all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to concentration camps in the interior -
War Production Board
The WPB allowed business to claim rapid depreciation and thus huge tax credits for new plants and awarded lucrative cost plus contracts for urgently needed goods. -
Manhattan Project
A crash program to build the atom bomb first. Spent $2 billion and produced weapons that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Unconditional Surrender
Roosevelt and Churchill met in Casablanca, Morocco where they declared a policy of unconditional surrender, vowing that the Allies would fight until the Axis nations were completely defeated -
D-Day
Allied troops crossed the English Channel and opened a second front in western Europe during WWII -
Yalta Conference
Wartime Conference of the allies in which the Allies agreed to final plan for the defeat of Germany and the terms of its occupation -
FDR passes away
After Yalta Conference, his health continued to fail and died while having his portrait after complaining of a terrible headache -
Capitulation Agreement
Japan signs this on the decks of the battleship Missori in Tokyo Bay to bring WWII to its official close
