Name two ways in which the united states became the arsenal of democracy
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How did the United States slowly move toward war?
"Cash-and-carry" provision that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships.
Name two ways in which the United States became the "arsenal of democracy."
• The Lend-Lease Plan in which countries whose defense was vital to the U.S. received arms or supplies from the president by either borrowing or purchasing
• Teaming up with Stalin and the Soviet Union in which Roosevelt stated "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
What events moved the United States closer to war?
• U.S. cutting off trade with Japan
• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
What event caused the American declaration of war against Japan?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
How did women and minorities join in the war effort?
• WAAC (allowed women to serve noncombat positions in the military)
• Minorities protested against not being able to participate in the war effort (ex: Philip Randolph's planned march at the capital)
•Blacks were given menial jobs, worked in segregated units limited to mostly noncombat roles
How did the war change life at home?
• Women took over jobs mostly dominated by men
• Rationing
• The convert of peacetime factories to wartime factories
How did the federal government regulate American life during the war?
•Rationing (under this system, households received ration books with coupons able to redeem goods such as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline
• OPA program
• WPB
• Warbonds
What was the Battle of the Atlantic, and how did the Allies win it?
• After the attack of Pearl Harbor, Hitler ordered submarine rauds against ships along America's east coast
• The goal of this order was to prevent food amd war materials from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union
• After four months, the Allies responded to the German by organizing their cargo ships into convoys (groups of ships traveling together for mutual protection)
•This along with airplanes using sonar and convoy ships using radar to spot U-Boats allowed the Allies to destroy them faster than the Germans could replenish