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| 55547348 | London Conference 1933 | International economic conference on stabilizing currency to solve Great Depression | |
| 55547349 | Philippines | nation to which the US promised independence in the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 | |
| 55547350 | 7th Pan-American Conference 1933 | FDR's repudiation of TR's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, stating good neighbor policy towards L. American countries | |
| 55547351 | Neutrality Acts of 1935,1937 | prohibited sale of arms to belligerents in a war; banned loans to belligerents; citizens cannot travel to countries at war or travel on armed ships; passed to prevent American involvement in future overseas wars | |
| 55547352 | Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 | conflict between the revel Fascist forces of Gen. Franco and the Loyalist gov't; severely tested US neutrality; Mussolini and Hitler helped in order to use SP as testing ground for bombs | |
| 55547353 | Quarantine Speech | Roosevelt's speech 1937 that proposed strong US measures against overseas aggressors (Japan) | |
| 55547354 | Munich Conference 1938 | European diplomatic conf where GB and FR appease Hitler's demands for Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia | |
| 55547355 | Sudetenland | piece of land south Czechoslovakia; betrayed by GB and FR to appease Hitler in 1938 Munich Conference | |
| 55547356 | appeasement | term for the British-French policy of attempting to prevent war by granting German demands | |
| 55547357 | Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies | group advocating US support for GB in the fight against Hitler | |
| 55547358 | America First Committee | headed by Charles Lindbergh; isolationist group advocating that US focus on continental defense and non-involvement with WWII | |
| 55547359 | Lend-Lease Act 1941 | law that made the US the "arsenal for democracy" by providing supposedly temorary military material assistance to GB | |
| 55547360 | Soviet Union | communist nation invaded by Hitler in June 1941 that was also aided by American lend-lease | |
| 55547361 | Atlantic Charter 1941 | US.-GB agreement of Aug 1941 to promote democracy and intentions for improvement post WWII; created by Winston Churchill and FDR in a secret conference | |
| 55547362 | self-determination, disarmament, freedom of seas, peace of security, League of Nations | 5 specific points of the Atlantic Charter | |
| 55547363 | USS Kearny | US destroyer sunk by German U-boats off the coast of iceland in Oct 1941 | |
| 55547364 | Pearl Harbor | major American naval base devastated in a surpise attack in Dec 1941 | |
| 55547365 | Cordell Hull | FDR's Sec'ry of State who promoted Reciprocal Trade Agreement, low tariffs, and Good Neighbor policy | |
| 55547366 | Adolf Hitler | Fascist leader of Germany; started WWII under the "big lie"- belief that GER was stabbed in the back by Jews in WWI | |
| 55547367 | Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy; sought to recreate a Roman empire; allied with Hitler in Roman-Berlin Axis; invaded Ethiopia; "Benevolent Dictator" | |
| 55547368 | Gerald Nye | instigator of 1934 Senate hearings that castigated WWI munitions manufacturers as "merchants of death" | |
| 55547369 | Gen. Franco | Fascist rebel leader against Spanish Loyalist gov't; helped by Hitler and Mussolini to become dictator of Spain | |
| 55547370 | Ethiopia | African nation invaded by Mussolini in 1935 | |
| 55547371 | Czechoslovakia | Democratic nation betrayed at Munich Conference | |
| 55547372 | Poland | invaded Sept 1939 by Hitler; set off WWII | |
| 55547373 | France | seized by Hitler in 1940; pushed the US closer to direct aid to GB | |
| 55547374 | Charles Lindbergh | leader of America First Committee; chief spokesman for US isolationism | |
| 55547375 | Wendell Willkie | dark horse Rep Presidential nominee in 1940; lost against FDR; attacked FDR for the third term attempt | |
| 55547376 | Winston Churchill | courageous prime minister who led GB's lonely resistance to Hitler; involved with the secret Atlantic Conference | |
| 55547377 | Joseph Stalin | Russian dictator who first helped HItler destroy Poland before becoming victim of Nazi aggression in 1941; transformed RUS into a military power in 15 years | |
| 55547378 | Iceland | nation near whose waters US destroyers, namely USS Kearny, came under Nazi submarine attack | |
| 55547379 | Tydings-McDuffie Act 1934 | put Philippines on the road to independence | |
| 55547380 | Reciprocal Trade Agreements 1934 | designed by Cordell Hull to increase American exports; reversed Hawley-Smoot Tariff by decreasing the tariff | |
| 55547381 | Rome-Berlin Axis | alliance of Hitler and Mussolini | |
| 55547382 | Japan | nation that acted against the Washington Naval Treaty in 1934 and walked out of London Conference | |
| 55547383 | Johnson Debt Default Act 1934 | forbade any country that still owed US money from borrowing any more cash | |
| 55547384 | Veterans of Future Wars | formed 1936 by a group of Princton U students; anti-war group that mocked the early payment of bonuses to WWI veterans | |
| 55547385 | Nye Committee 1934 | formed to investigate whether or not munitions manufacturers and bankers were pro-war in WWI soley to make profit; increased anti-war atmosphere and push to pass Neutrality Acts | |
| 55547386 | Panay | American gunboat bombed and sunk by Japanese in 1937; Japan apologized and sent $ to victims' families; unwilling to go to war, US forgave easily | |
| 55547387 | Rhineland | strip of land demilitarized according to Versailles Treaty; invaded by Hitler | |
| 55547388 | cash-and-carry policy | aka Neutrality Act of 1939; Euro nations (Allies) can buy war materials from US only if they provide transportation and pay in cash | |
| 55547389 | Havana Conference | meeting where US warned Germany that it could not take over orphan colonies in the Americas | |
| 56451724 | Conscription law 1940 | first peacetime draft; trained 1.2 million troops | |
| 56451725 | Taft, Dewey | two leading Republican presidential candidate aspirants | |
| 56451726 | Robin Moor | unarmed US merchant ship torpedoed and destroyed by a German U-boat outside war zone; May 1941 | |
| 56451727 | Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939 | Hitler-Stalin Nonaggression Pact; 10-year peace treaty; Russia can keep 1/3 of Poland when Hitler attacks it | |
| 56451728 | phony war | term dubbed to the early phase of WWII; period of silence and inactivity in Europe after Hitler moved his forces from Poland and eventually attacked Norway and Denmark | |
| 56451729 | Good Neighbor Policy | established and reinforced by FDR to create good relations with L. America; nullied Roosevelt Corollary | |
| 56452883 | Kulaks | independent farmers; Stalin ordered Collective Farming (crops go to Russian gov't) | |
| 56452884 | xenophobic | anti-foreign; Japan until the 1840s | |
| 56452885 | Weimar Repubic | name of democratic govt of GER 1919-1933 | |
| 56452886 | Beer Hall Putsch | Nazi party failed attempt to seize Munich govt 1923; Hitler emerges as a national hero when jailed | |
| 56452887 | Blitzkreig | "lightning war"; German military warfare tactic | |
| 56452888 | Norway, Denark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland | five "weaker" countries Hitler attacked before France (after phoney war) | |
| 56452889 | maginot line | France's wall of defense that only faced Germany and stopped at the Ardennes | |
| 56452890 | Ardennes | thick forest on the border of France and Germany | |
| 56452891 | Retreat of Dunkirk | British retreat after Ger attacks France | |
| 56452892 | burning house analogy | used by FDR in one of his fireside chats to persuade Americans to support Lend Lease Policy | |
| 56452893 | Battle of Britain | July 1940-Dec 1941; air war between GER and GB | |
| 56452894 | radar | initially invented by GB to detect aircraft in the air; eventually used by all belligerent countries in WWII | |
| 56452895 | luftwaffe | german airforce | |
| 56452896 | RAF | british airforce | |
| 56452897 | scorch and burn | Russian tactic; used against GER after GER attack June 1941; allowed Ger to conquer land to separate them from supply line and fall in trap of the brutal winter | |
| 56452898 | Yamamoto | Japanese admiral who planned Pearl Harbor Attack; Japan stealthily came in from the North | |
| 56452899 | Dec 7, 1941 | Pearl harbor attack; holiday time, Sunday morning | |
| 56452900 | Bases for Destroyers deal | Sept. 1940- British gives US 8 base sites from Newfoundland to S. America; US trades destroyers; |
