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Interwar Foreign Policy
The United States shifted in its foreign policy drastically in the years that led to WWll. -
Neutrality Act of 1935
Imposed an embargo on selling arms to warning countries and declared a "cash and carry policy." -
Attack On Pearl Harbor
This led to the U.S entering the war and it was an attack by the Japanese. -
Island Hopping
This started around 1941 and it ended in the year of 1944. It was a strategy employed by the U.S to gain Japanese territories in the lesser fortified islands and build up. -
Lend- Lease Act
This established a lending program to anyone deemed to fit the security of the United States. Of course this mainly meant non facist government being supported. Great Britain was a large international investment through this program and was supported economically. -
Atlantic Charter
Despite not literally mobilizing U.S troops, FDR encouraged sentiment to be aligned with the allied powers. He did this by meeting with the Winston Churchill, British prime minister. -
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War Mobilization
On an economic standpoint the U.S was supporting the allied powers. However, the U.S did not actually declare war until after Pearl Harbor. War mobilization was utlilized involving propaganda and drafts to build up an army. -
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Military
The U.S declared war after Pearl Harbor. The military started taking form and economic support for the Allied Powers turned into troops deploying for the Allied Powers. -
"We Can Do It"
This was the slogan of one famous form of propaganda to mobilize women in the workforce developing the manufacturing supply which was in large demand. -
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act
Provided education, job training, medical care, pensions, and mortgage loans for men and women who served in the armed forces. -
D- Day
Naval, air, and land operation conducted by the Allies and it was a success. However, there were large casualties as a result of this attack. -
National War Labor Board
almsot 15 million workers belonged to a union, up from 9 million in 1939. FDR created the National War Labor Board to represent the behalf of all the union workers and reformed the pay, wage hours, and had the ability to seize manufacturing plants that did not comply. -
Manhattan Project
Top secret project attempted the formation of an Atomic Bomb of Mass Destruction. When constructed and tested in New Mexico, it was eventually unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forcing Japanese surrender.