Transcript Chapter 10 Quick Review

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Neutrality Acts
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Could not sell arms to nations at war
Neutrality Act of 1939
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Cash and carry
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Aided Allies
Interventionists – US could avoid war if we aided
Britain
 Tripartite Pact – German, Italy and Japan
become allies
 “Four Freedoms” Speech
 Lend-Lease Act – economic declaration of war
 Atlantic Charter – General security and alliance
with Britain
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 Japan
depended on US resources
 Why did FDR place an embargo on Japan?
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To stop expansion?
To provoke into war?
 Hideki
Tojo
 Pearl Harbor – 2500 die, 8 battleships
damaged, 3 destroyers destroyed, and more
 Office of War Mobilization – supervised use of
industry resources
 Douglas
MacArthur – commander of US Army
in Asia
 Bataan Death March – 7000 American and
Filipino troops die in 55 mile march to
Bataan railway
 Battle of Coral Sea – forced Japan to call of
attack on New Guinea
Key Terms
 Anschluss, appeasement, Stalin, Atlantic Charter,
blitzkrieg, Winston Churchill, totalitarianism,
Tripartite Pact, Hitler, Mac Arthur, Tojo, WAC,
Neutrality Act of 1939
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Essay Questions
 Do you think a totalitarian form of government
would have formed in Germany if the Great
Depression had not occurred? Explain.
 How did the attack on Pearl Harbor cause the
United States to abandon its neutral position on
the war between the Allies and Axis Powers?
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