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Stimson Doctrine
US refused to recognize Japanese Manchuko
b/c gained by force -
Period: to
FDR's administration
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Nye Committee
Headed by Gerald Nye, North Dakota
Isolationism
WWI begun b/c of banker's and arms manufactturers' interests -
Neutrality Act of 1935
Prohibited arms shipments
Forbid US citizens of travelling to belligerent nations -
Neutrality Act of 1936
Forbade loans to warring nations -
Neutrality Act of 1937
Forbade the shipment of arms to opposing sides in the Spanish Civil WAr -
Destroyer for Bases
British allowed US to build military bases on its islands
US gave British 50 used destroyers
Freed up British forces from Bermuda
US helped -
Four Freedoms Speech
FDR
proposed lending money to Britain
defense of "four freedoms"
Freedom of religion and speech
Freedom FROM want and fear -
Lend Lease Act
Ending cash and carry
permitted the purchase of US arms on credit -
Atlantic Charter
FDR and Churchill
Affirmed the peace objectives when the war ended
self determination, no territorial expansion, free trade
(none of that really happened) -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese invade French Indochinda
FDR froze Japanese credit (no more oil)
Japan needed oil in Dutch East Indies
US in the way
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
Declaration of War on Japan -
Japanese Internment
Wartime nativism
Japanese-Americans accused of being saboteurs
Forced Japanese out of homes into internment camps -
Manhattan Project
J Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic bomb
employed 100000 people
$2 billion to develop
Arms race later on -
Battle of Coral Sea
(I would like to note that this is the first event to actually have taken place on May 8)
US aircraft carriers stopped Japanese threat on Australia
One of the first battles to make heavy use of aerial warfare -
Bataan Death March
(Hey, probably not important, but one of the only Philippines cards)
American and Filipino prisoners of war forced to march throught he jungles on the Bataan Peninsula -
Battle of Midway
Midway Island= strategically vital to the defense of Hawai'i
basically ended Japanese offense -
Korematsu vs. US
Supreme Court upheld internment policy
justified during wartime -
Battle of Normandy
Allied drive to liberate France
largest amphibious invasion
DDay
British, Canadian, US, and French forces
Under General Eisenhower -
Yalta Conference
Big Three- FDR, Churchill, Stalin
Germany would be divided
Free elections in the freed countries (didn't happen)
USSR war against Japan
USSR would control southern half of Sakhalin island and Kurile Islands
world peace organization in San Fransisco -
Period: to
Truman's Administration
Yes, I know it's longer than that -
Victory in Europe Day
Another actual may 8
Germans exhausted after Battle of the Bulge
Reims France -
Potsdam Agreement
Truman, Attlee, Stalin
warning to Japan
war-crime trials of Nazi leaders -
Atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan refuses to comply w/ warning
a-bomb dropped on Hiroshima then 3 days later, Nagasaki -
Victory over Japan Day
representatives from US, China, UK, Soviet Union, Australia, France, Canada, And Japan
Japanese surrender on USS Missouri