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Washington Conference
Delegates from nine nations were present at this conference. The major objective of the meeting was a political settlement of the tense Asian situation, but the most pressing issue was a dangerous naval race between Japan and the U.S. The five, the nine, and the four power treaties were all signed at this conference. -
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Chapter 27 U.S. History
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Kellog-Briand Treaty
It pledged its signatories, eventually including nearly all nations, to shun war as an instrument of policy. -
Nye Committee
Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota headed the special Senate committee that spent two years investigating American munitions dealers. The committee revealed the enormous prfits firms such as Du Pont reaped from WWI. -
Neutrality Act of 1935
The 1935 law banned the sale of arms to nations at war and warned American citizens not to sail on belligerent ships. -
Neutrality Act of 1936
This second act added a ban on loans. -
Veterans of Future Wars
The group was formed by undergraduates at Princeton. It was a parody on vetarans' groups, to demand a bonus of $1000 apiece before they marched off to a foreign war. -
Neutrality Act of 1937
The third neutrality act made these prohibitions of the previous two acts, permanent and required, on a two-year trial basis, that all trade other than munitions be conducted on a cash-and-carry basis -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
The pact was a nonagression treaty between Hitler and Germany. The pact enabled Germany to avoid a two-front war. The Russians were rewarded with a generous slice of eastern Poland. -
America First Committee
It was formed by a group of Roosevelt's opponents such as Charles Lindbergh, and Robert Taft, from the Midwest. It was formed to protest the drift towards war. -
Tripartite Pact
A treaty between Japan, Germany, and Italy. It was a defensive treaty that confronted the U.S. with a possible two-ocean war. -
Lend-Lease Acts
The president argued that aiding Britain would help our own self-defense. Roosevelt asked for a 7 billion dollar plan. 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 U.S. -
Fair Employment Practices Committee
FDR created the FEPC to ban racial discrimination in war industries. As a result, African American employment by the federal government rose from 60,000 in 1941 to 200,000 by the end of the war. -
Pear Harbor
Japanese warplanes attacked U.S. naval forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking several ships and killing moreth an 2400 American sailors. The event marked America's entrance into WWII. -
War Production Board
It was headed by Donald Nelson. 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
Franklin Roosevelt alarmed by reports that German scientists were working on an atomic bomb, authorized a crash program to build the bomb first. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany was trying to get into Russia to take their natural resources, but the winter was so cold that Germany couldn't win. Then the soviets come in and wipe Germany clean. -
D-Day
The day when Allied troops crossed the English Channel and opened a second front in western Europe during WWII. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta, a city in the Russian Crimea, hosted this wartime conference of the Allies in February 1945 in which the Allies agreed to final plans for the defeat of Germany and the terms of its occupation. -
Los Alamos
Is a laboratory located in New Mexico. There they teste the first atomic bomb, creating a fireball brighter than several suns and a tellale mushroom cloud that rose some 40,000 feet above an enormous crater in the desert floor. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two Japanese cities the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on.
