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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.
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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
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Declared America's intention to use cooperation and friendship in place of threats and armed intervention in its dealings with Latin America
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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
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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
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The three totalitarian nations signed an anti-Comintern pact completing a Berlin Rome Tokyo Axis (alliance)
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Hitler takes over Austria and six months later demands the Sudetenlands
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Hitler begins war by invading Poland
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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
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Roosevelt and Churchill signed this and pledged to fight together until the Axis powers were defeated
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Banned racial discrimination in war industires
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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
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Army order to move all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to concentration camps in the interior
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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.
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A crash program to build the atom bomb first. Spent $2 billion and produced weapons that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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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
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Allied troops crossed the English Channel and opened a second front in western Europe during WWII
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Wartime Conference of the allies in which the Allies agreed to final plan for the defeat of Germany and the terms of its occupation
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After Yalta Conference, his health continued to fail and died while having his portrait after complaining of a terrible headache
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Japan signs this on the decks of the battleship Missori in Tokyo Bay to bring WWII to its official close
