Ch. 35
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- Yamamoto's Prophecy
- mastermind behind PH; US = sleeping giant
- Atlantic Charter
- 8 points set up by FDR and Churchill and later Stalin; similar to Wilson's 14 points
- Maxim Litvina
- first Russian ambassador to US in 1933 when we finally recognize USSR
- "Greer" & "Kearny" & "Reuben James"
- US destroyers all attacked by German U-boats
- Jeanette Rankin
- first women elected to congress; voted against WWI; WWII and Vietnam War
- "Gitmo"
- Guantanamo Bay in Cuba; only spot that US keeps
- Tripartite Pact 1940
- Germany, Italy, Japan; Hitler wants Japs; thinks it'll keep US out of war
- Ethiopia
- Mussolini invades easily and no one helps
- Reciprocal Trade Agreement
- 1934; relief and recovery; low tariff policies; done around Senate if other country will agree; helped world economy after WWII
- The London economic conference
- 66 nations; 1933; FDR doesn't send someone b/c he wants inflation; ruined whole conference
- Billy Mitchell
- WWI pilot in France; wants to start US Air Force and no one listens to him; dead before Pearl Harbor though he had predicted it; but gets medal of honor 10 years after death
- "lebensraum" and "manschluss"
- living space; what Germany says it needs the union of Germany and Austria peacefully
- Montevideo Pledge
- Good Neighbor policy; US pledges to keep out
- The Munich Conference 1938
- Hitler agrees that Sudetenland will be his last claim so world powers let him keep it; lots of appeasement and lying going on
- Marco Polo Bridge
- near Bering; 1937 japan starts all out invasion of china
- Dorie Miller
- black man in navy; worked in kitchen but still shot 1 or 2 planes (during PH??)
- Tydings McDuffie Act 1934
- independent Philippines after 12 years (1946); Phil. Become a burden to US
- Neutrality Acts 1937 & 1939
- keep US out of helping democracies; 1939 they can buy stuff from US only on cash and carry method
- Wagner Bill 1941
- suggests to let 10,000 Jewish orphans to US; doesn't happen; shows US didn't help Jews
- Havana Conference 1940
- US and L. Am. Make treaty all as friends to keep out Hitler; sharing of Monroe doctrine for all of L. Am. To use
- Operation Barbarossa
- Hitler invades Soviet Union June 22 1941
- "cash and carry"
- Allies can buy what they need only in cash and have to carry it on their own boats
- Edward R. Murrow
- famous newscaster in London telling stuff happening to US; could hear Battle of Brit. In background
- 1940 election results and why
- FDR VS Willkie (new guy; well liked) FDR wins b/c no one wants to change horses now; FDR's real opponent was Hitler
- "Quarantine Speech"
- 1937 FDR in Chicago wants positive endeavors to quarantine aggressors by economic embargo; people furious so FDR shuts up
- "Operation Sea Lion"
- Hitler's plant o attack Britain; aborted after failure of Battle of Britain; takes USSR instead
- Burton Wheeler
- "as the new Triple A bill designed to plow under every fourth Am. Boy" talking about getting draft for war
- "St. Louis" 1939
- Germany cruise ship filled with Jews trying to land in Cuba; find out all the visas they bought were fake and now they have to go all the way back home; Miami won't take them either
- Haile Selassie
- emperor of Ethiopia who no one helps against Mussolini; "It's us today, it'll be you tomorrow"
- Fritz Kuhe and William Pelly
- both had fascist groups in US; German Am. Bundt with 25,000-30,000; Silver Shirts - cop off of Mussolini black shirts
- FDR's VP's
- Henry Wallace in 3rd term; Truman in 4th term
- Greater East Asia Co - Prosperity Sphere
- Jap version of Monroe doctrine in Asia; wants everyone else out
- The "Robin Moor"
- unarmed US ship sunk by Germans out of war zone waters on May 21 1941
- Selective Service Act1940
- draft people before we get into war; only peace time draft
- Cordell Hull
- Sec. of State; low tariff, trade both ways; big New Dealer; like S. Am.; worked out Reciprocal Trade Agreement
- Panay incident
- Japan shoot down US ship in Chinese waters; to test US; Tokyo makes huge apologies; US relieved they don't have to do anything
- Johnson Debt Default Act
- 1934; prevented debt dodging nations from borrowing more in US
- "Rattlesnakes"
- FDR's nickname for German subs; destroyers can take a hit; used as protection
- Admiral Kimmel
- in charge at P.H. makes excuse that wasn't prepared b/c govt. didn't tell him
- Francisco Franco
- fascist leader of rebels; gets Hitler and Mussolini's support and wins Spain; calls FDR a gentleman for staying out of it