phony war

Eastern Front

In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.

Winston Churchill

New prime minister of Britain, offered words of defiance to Hitler

How did the us know Japans target

Japanese code was broken and the us determined Midway was the target

Isoroku Yamamoto

Leader of the Japanese navy

Blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Roles of the us

-faced dangerous situations -Hitler dominated Europe so if british lost germans would take over Atlantic -Roosevelt was concerned about Britains fate -was forced to support isolationlism

Selective Training and Service Act

1940 law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service

Germans occupied...

Balkan Countries southeastern Europe and they forced people to be slaves

Pearl Harbor

Base in hawaii that was bombed by japan on December 7, 1941, which eagered America to enter the war.

Who did Germany strike first during the blitzkrieg attacks

Denmark and Norway

Aftermath of the election of 1940

FDR won and promised to keep us out of war , he kept close contact with churchill

June 17, 1940

French forces surrendered six weeks after Germanys invaded the west

German Luftwaffe

German Air Force

What was happening in the Atlantic

German subs were sinking ships everyday

After Three months of fighting

Germans surrendered -losr 150000 soldiers -91,000 surrender -Hitler could never again launch an offensive on the eastern front

Japan's allies

Germany and Italy declared war on the us and brought the us into the second war

October 1940

Hitler gave up invasion plans

Aftermath of Pearl Harbor

That evening Japan announced that it had officially declared war on the US

What did most people believe would happen after the phony war

They thought another deal with Hitler would settle the matter

British advantage

They were outnumbered but they had warnings from radar that the germans were approaching

Pacific War

War against Japan in WWII, characterized by island hopping and intense naval battles

Lend-Lease Act

allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S

Compromise and Neutrality Act of 1939

allowed the sale of weapons to countries at war, but american ships couldnt enter the war zone

The battle of the coral sea

blocked and pushed toward Australia, fought entirely Aircraft,

to deal with threats the allied powers

cooperated

Goal of Germans

disrupt production and break the moral of the British

puppet government

established in the southern portion, was run from the town of Vichy

Phony War

following the German invasion of Poland and preceding the Battle of France. Although the great powers of Europe had declared war on one another, neither side had yet committed to launching a significant attack, and there was relatively little fighting on the ground

What were Americans worried about

increase in military build up -and most wanted Hitler to be stopped but they wanted the us to stay out of war

The battle of Britain

involved the Royal Air forces effort to defend against the German Luftwaffe

After France surrendered to Germany

they occupied the northern half of France

What did FDR ask congress

to repeal the Neutrality Act of 1935 which involved embargo

results of the Pacific War

was a draw, for the first time the allies were able to stop Japanese advance