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maxush-Holo US Enter
maxush-Holocaust US Enters the War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| killing of 6 million Jews and an additional 6 million "undesirables" | holocaust |
| Hebrew term for the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews | shoah |
| Series of laws that took rights away from Jews as German citizens | Nuremberg Laws |
| night of harassment on the Jews by Nazi's | kristallnacht |
| Nazi secret police | Gestapo |
| ship that carried hundreds of Jews from Europe to the western hemisphere to escape, turned away and returned to Europe | SS St. Louis |
| meeting of German leaders to decide upon a solution to problem of Jews and others | Wannsee Conference |
| decision to take all "undesirables" from in germany and territories and place them in camps | final solution |
| Nazi labor camps for Jews and other "undesirables" | concentration camps |
| camps where over 6 million "undesirables" were killed | extermination camps |
| weapons sold to warring nations on a cash and carry basis | Neutrality Act 1939 |
| US to give Britain 50 out of date destroyers in exchange for rights to naval bases in western hemisphere | Destroyer Deal |
| order issued by president, has same force as law, can be overturned by legislation or court | executive order |
| argued we need to get involved to defeat Axis powers | Fight for Freedom Committee |
| believed helping allies would keep US out of the war | Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies |
| opposed any intervention or aid to the Allies | America First Committee |
| Dem. FDR Rep. Wendell Willkie issue war both promised to aid Allies and remain neutral | 1940 Election |
| FDR speech saying US must protect freedoms: speech, religion, from want, and from fear | Four Freedoms Speech |
| US would lend, lease, sell, or give away materials vital to the defense of the US | Lend-Lease Act |
| June 1941 Germany invades Soviet Union | Operation Barbarossa |
| declared western half of Atlantic part of western hemisphere and neutral, US to patrol abnd alert British to German u-boats | hemispheric zone defense |
| Agreement between FDR and Churchill, called for a postwar world free for trade, democracy, nonaggression, and freedom of the seas | Atlantic Charter |
| American destroyer fired on by german U-boat, FDR issues shoot on sight order | USS Greer |
| American destroyer attacked and sunk by German u-boat | USS Reuben James |
| gave President power to restrict the sale of strategic materials | Export Control Act |
| any material important in fighting the war | strategic materials |
| Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan | Rome Berlin Tokyo Axis |
| French possession Japan invades to gain access to resources in Southeast Asia and attack British possessions | Indochina |
| Japanese attack Pearl harbor | Dec. 7,1941 |
| US declares war on Japan | Dec. 8,1941 |
| Germany and Italy declare war on the US | Dec. 11,1941 |
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