AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 25 Diplomacy and World War II, 1929-1945
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| 6235578358 | Good Neighbor Policy | President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy of promoting better relations with Latin America by using economic influence rather than military force in the region. (p. 523) |  | 0 |
| 6235578364 | Stimson Doctrine | In 1932, Secretary of State Henry Stimson said the United States would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria. (p. 522) |  | 1 |
| 6235578376 | Munich | A 1938 conference, at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that he would not expand Germany's territory any further. (p. 526) |  | 2 |
| 6235578381 | Neutrality Acts | Laws passed by isolationists in the late 1930s, that were designed to keep the United States out of international wars. (p. 525) |  | 3 |
| 6235578386 | Selective Training and Service Act | In 1940, Roosevelt passed this law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service. (p. 528) |  | 4 |
| 6235578389 | Wendell Willkie | Franklin Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the 1940 Presidential election. (p. 529) |  | 5 |
| 6235578391 | Lend-Lease Act | In March 1941, this act permitted Britain to obtain all U.S. arms they needed on credit during World War II. (p. 529) |  | 6 |
| 6235578392 | Atlantic Charter | In August 1941, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill met aboard a ship off the coast of Newfoundland. They created this agreement which outlined the principles for peace after the war. (p. 530) |  | 7 |
| 6235578395 | Pearl Harbor | On December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, this U.S. naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii was bombed by Japanese planes. 2,400 Americans were killed and 20 warships were sunk or severely damaged. The next day, the United States declared war on Japan. (p. 531) |  | 8 |
| 6235578397 | Office of Price Administration | This World War II federal agency regulated most aspects of civilian lives by freezing prices, wages, and rents and rationing commodities in order to control inflation. (p. 532) |  | 9 |
| 6235578410 | Korematsu v. U.S. | A 1944 Supreme Court case which upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay financial compensation to each survivor. (p. 534) |  | 10 |
| 6235578418 | D-Day | On June 6, 1944 the Allies landed in northern France with the largest invasion by sea in history. By the end of August Paris was liberated from the Nazis, and by September Allied troops had crossed the German border. (p. 536) |  | 11 |
| 6235578424 | J. Robert Oppenheimer | American theoretical physicist and professor of physics. He led the top-secret Manhattan Project, which built the world's first atomic bomb. (p. 537) |  | 12 |
| 6235578430 | Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam | The three cities that held conferences for the leaders of the Allied powers, United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Union during World War II. (p. 538) |  | 13 |
| 6235578431 | United Nations | On October 24, 1945, this international organization formed after World War II to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. (p. 539) |  | 14 |
| 6235632576 | Truman | He became president on April 12, 1945, when President Franklin Roosevelt died suddenly. In August 1945, he order an atomic bomb be dropped on Hiroshima then on Nagasaki, to end the war with Japan. Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. (p. 537, 538) | 15 | |
| 6235646073 | America First Committee | In 1940, after World War II had begun in Asia and Europe, isolationists became alarmed by President Roosevelt's support for Britain. To mobilize American public opinion against the war, they formed this committee. Charles A. Lindbergh was one of it spokesmen. (p. 525) | 16 | |
| 6235656043 | Blitzkrieg | On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded this country using overwhelming air power and fast-moving tanks, a term of warfare called lightning war. Britain and France then declared war against Germany. (p. 528) | 17 | |
| 6235674047 | Battle of Midway | On June 4-7, 1942, the U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet at Midway Island. The Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. The battle marked a turning point in the war in the Pacific. (p. 536) | 18 | |
| 6235677380 | London Economic Conference | A meeting of representatives of 66 nations from June 12 to July 27, 1933, at the Geological Museum in London. Its purpose was to win agreement on measures to fight global depression, revive international trade, and stabilize currency exchange rates. | 19 |
