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Dec of War w/Japan
History
Question | Answer |
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When does Japan attack the US base in Pearl Harbor? | Dec 7, 1941 |
When did FDR call a joint session of congress and propse a declaration of war? | Dec. 8, 1941 |
Why did Hitler become powerful? what year? | German people wanted someone to stand against Treaty of Versailles. 1933 |
Who was the leader of the facist party in Italy? What year? | Benito Moussolini 1922 |
When did Hitler and Moussoline become allies? What was it called? | 1933 Rome-Berlin Axis |
Where does Italy invade first and what year? | Ethiopia in 1933 |
What does Germany take first in what year? | Rhineland in 1936 |
What country does Germany give an ulimatim for and when? | Austria in 1938 |
What country does Hitler take the Western part of on account of the fact that it is mosly German? What year? | Czechoslovakia, Sudentenland 1938 |
Describe appeasement . | Giving warnings to Germany for taking land but not actually doing anything to stop them. |
When the Czechoslovakia taken? What happens next? | 1939 and France and England start to mobilize. |
Who does Hitler make a non-agression pack with in order to take Poland? | Stalin. |
What does Hitler use to invade Poland and when> | Blitz Krieg, (1. bombs, 2. tanks, 3,. Infantry) on Sept 1, 1939 |
What was the name of the act Congress passed to stop people from helping in the War? | The Neutrality Act in 1937 |
What is Cash and Carry? | Lets nations come over and pay in cash for stuff and take it back to their nation. |
What parts of Europe are taken next by Hitler? | Scandanavia and the low countries |
What is the Armaments appropriation act of 1940? | Meant to block the Germans from crossing the Atlantic. 1.8 billion spent on war equipment including 2 ocean navy 1.2 million on a US army and 3, 500 aircraft. |
What is the selective training and service act? | Peace time draft, anyone between 21-25 had to register, 16.5 milion registered,, 800,000 drafted |
How does Roosevelt get use of English naval bases in the Atlantic? | He gives them 50 destroyers for free. |
What is the Lend and Lease Act? | Authorizes the president to lend or lease any military thing to any nation for any thing that is considered vital for US defense. 35 countries receive lend and lease support. |
What does Denmark do before it is taken over? | Writes a law that gives the US protectorate status of Greenland and Iceland and permanent naval basis are built there by US. Iceland declared independance b-4 denmark taken. still has US protection. |
What is the Atlantic Charter and when was it made? | Unified Statement from FDR and Churchill about postwar objectives like how to stop facisim and communism, aug 1941 |
What did Japan invade first and when? | Manchuria 1937 |
What is the East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere? When was it announced? | Japan said they would stand up for Asia and the open door trading policy with Europe would be close although trading with US was still open. 1938 |
When did Japan ally with the axis powers and what happened after that? | 1940, The US set up an embargo on Japan for oil and steel. |
Who sends trusted friends to negotiate peace with US and who were they? | General Tojo, Kurusu, and Nomura to US Secretary of State, Hull. |
What does the US sec of state want from Japan? | Japan to get out of China and to enter a non-aggression pact. |
What specific time did Japan attack Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941 7:55 a.m. |
How did the attack play out? | Torpedos launched from planes into water, subs couldn't get into the bay. |
How many battleships sunk? grounded? | 3 sunk, 1 grounded. |
How many American soldiers were killed and how many wounded a pearl harbor? | 2335, 1178 |
What other places were attacked on the same day? | US positions in the Phillipines and Guam and British positions in Hong Kong, Milasia and Singapore. |
What did the Japanese admiral say after the attack? | I'm afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant. |
Who was the only US congress person to not agree with FDR's declaration of war? | Jeanette Rankin |
When Germany and Italy declare war on the US? | Dec. 11, 1941 |
How large was the US army and where did we get it from? | 15 million 10 drafted, 5 volunteered. |
By the end of the war how many US soldiers went oversees and how many engaged in combat? | 12 million went overseas and 4.7 million combat |
What was the only nation standing in Hitler's way in Europe? | Britain. |
When was France taken back? | Summer of 1944 |
When is VE day? | May 18, 1945 |
Who fought the Japanese in the Pacific? | The US only |
When is VJ day? | Sept 2nd, 1945 |
How many US soldiers were killed in WWI compared with WWII? | 54,000 to 293,000 |
How many US soldiers died by other means in WWI compared to WWII? | 63,000 by disease compared to 112,000 by disease and 4,000 by accident. |
How many US soldiers were wounded in WWI compared to WWII? | 200,000 to 670,000 |
How much did the US spend in WWI compared to WWII? | 24.5 billion to 315 billion. |