World war 2 APUSH – Flashcards
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Schecter Poultry Corp vs. Us
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was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry...a main component of President Roosevelt's New Deal, unconstitutional.
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Butler Case
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ruled that the processing taxes instituted under the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act were unconstitutional.
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Merchants of death
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attack industries and banks that supplied and funded World War I. The term originated as the title of a book
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Neutrality legislation
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Acts.. No loans and credits, no giving weapons to people in Spain AMERICA STAY OUT OF WAR
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Spanish civil war
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Fascism vs republicanism. Franco won and developed military dictatorship! (Fascism won)
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Mussolini
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Led Italy's fascist party. Glorify the nation/race aggressively.
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Japan attacks china- Chiang Kai Shek
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Japan attacked china for resources/power. US helped Chiang to prevent Japan taking over all china(loyalists vs communists)
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Quarantine speech
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calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations. Made by FDR
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazi leader. Took control ! Big power
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Munich conference
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was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia
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Appeasement
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making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict.
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Neville Chamberlain
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best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement
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Nonagression pact. Germany and USSR
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guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II; the Soviet Union was awarded land
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Invasion of Poland
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Started world war 2... Hitler sent in troops
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Blitzkrieg
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Hitlers method of warfare
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Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Cash and carry
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allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash. HELPED BRITAIN
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Charles Lindbergh
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Advocate for isolationism. HATED WAR! But supported it after Pearl Harbor attack
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Election of 1940
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FDR vs Willkie. FDR won because of the war issues.he was experienced
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Lend lease act
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Helped aid Britain. Britain could "borrow" US arms
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Atlantic Charter
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international organization serving as the arbiter of disputes and the protector of every nation's right of self determination. govern their relations with one another though democratic process
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D DAY
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1944, the enormous operation took place. After desperate fighting, the Allies finally broke out of the German ring that enclosed the beach.
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Stalingrad
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union
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Winston Churchill
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led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns.
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Casablanca conference
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The Allies demanded the unconditional surrender of the axis, agreed to aid the Soviets, agreed on the invasion Italy, and the joint leadership of the Free French by De Gaulle and Giraud.
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Tehran Conference
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first meeting of the "Big Three" and it agreed on an opening of a second front (Overlord), and that the Soviet Union should enter the war against Japan after the end of the war in Europe.
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Manhattan Project
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secret research and development project of the U.S to develop the atomic bomb. Its success granted the U.S the bombs that ended the war with Japan as well as ushering the country into the atomic era
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Robert Oppenheimer
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He a physicist who was the director of the Manhattan. Project. He helped to ensure the development of the atomic bomb before the axis
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Yalta conference
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It agreed on the unconditional surrender of Germany. attended by FDR, Churchill, Stalin
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Potsdam conference
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decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany. included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of the war.
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Partitioning of Korea, Vietnam, Germany
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The U.S. played a role in dividing these countries into sections, each of which would be ruled by different authority figures and managed by one of the Allied powers.
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Charles de Gaulle
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He formed the French resistance movement in London immediately after the French surrender at Vichy. He was elected President of the Free French government in exile during the war and he was the first provisional president of France after its liberation.
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Churchill iron curtain speech
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March, 1946 - He reviewed the international response to Russian aggression and declared an "iron curtain" had descended across Eastern Europe.
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Joseph Stalin
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After Lenin died in 1924, he defeated Trotsky to gain power in the U.S.S.R. He created consecutive five year plans to expand heavy industry. He tried to crush all opposition and ruled as the absolute dictator of the U.S.S.R. until his death.
