Acronyms that contain the term arsenal of democracy 

Arsenal of Democracy

The "Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast delivered on December 29, 1940. Roosevelt promised to help the United Kingdom fight Nazi Germany by giving them military supplies while the United States stayed out of the actual fighting. The announcement was made a year before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Germany had occupied much of Europe and threatened Britain. Germany was allied with Italy and Japan. At the time, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and had jointly invaded Poland in 1939, a deal that remained until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Roosevelt's address was "a call to arm and support" the Allies in Europe, and to a lesser extent China, in their all-out war against Germany and Japan. "The great arsenal of democracy" came to specifically reference America and its industrial machine, as the primary military supplier for the Allied war effort. "Arsenal of democracy" does not refer to a single city, but to the collective efforts of American industry in supporting the Allies. These efforts tended to be concentrated in established industrial centers, including Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, but also many other cities across the nation.

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