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| 6429736839 | Good Neighbor policy | "a policy of good neighbor" towards other western nations; enacted because dollar diplomacy was no longer feasible and FDR wanted support from Latin America because of the European militaristic action | 0 | |
| 6429736840 | Pan-American conferences | first in Uruguay when US pledged to never again interfere with internal affairs of Latin America; second in Argentina when FDR pledged total support of Latin America | 1 | |
| 6429736841 | Soviet Union Recognized | FDR did so in 1933 to increase trade and boost the economy | 2 | |
| 6429736842 | Independence for Philippines | Tydings-DcDiffie act of 1934 provided total independence by 1946; an economic move by FDR | 3 | |
| 6429736843 | reciprocal trade agreements | the president may reduce US tariffs by 50% if nations did the same for the US; FDR passed the plan to increase international trade | 4 | |
| 6429736844 | Japan takes Manchuria | broke the Open Door Policy and the covenant of the League of Nations; established a puppet government through violence | 5 | |
| 6429736845 | Stimson Doctrine | passed by US and endorsed by the League; stated that US would not legitimize any government established by force (in response to Manchuria) | 6 | |
| 6429736846 | fascism | the idea that people should glorify their nation and their race through an aggressive show of force; dominant ideology in European dictatorships in the 1930's | 7 | |
| 6429736847 | Italian Fascist Party | attracted veterans, nationalists, and those fearful of communism; led by Benito Mussolini; 1922 | 8 | |
| 6429736848 | Benito Mussolini | leader of Italian Fascist Party | 9 | |
| 6429736849 | Ethiopia | 1935; invaded by Mussolini and his Italian troops as a show of Military power; led to a countering after 1 year | 10 | |
| 6429736850 | German Nazi party | a fascist party led by Adolf Hitler; popular with unemployed Germans | 11 | |
| 6429736851 | Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazis; used bullying tactics and anti-anti-Semminism; rose to power in 1933 | 12 | |
| 6429736852 | Axis Powers | 1940; Japan, Italy, Germany | 13 | |
| 6429736853 | Spanish Civil War | viewed as an ideological between Fascism and Republicanism; 1936; Americans sympathized with the Loyalists by could not help because of Neutrality Acts | 14 | |
| 6429736854 | Francisco Franco | fascist leader in the Spanish Civil war and eventual dictator of Mexico | 15 | |
| 6429736855 | Rhineland | 1936; German area that must be permanently demilitarized per the Versailles Treaty; Hitler defied the treaty and had troops march in | 16 | |
| 6429736856 | Sudetenland | a strip of land in Czechoslovakia where most people spoke German; Hitler claimed a right to the land; a conference of Britain, France, and US allowed Hitler to take the land | 17 | |
| 6429736857 | Munich | synonymous with "appeasement" due to the conference that occurred there | 18 | |
| 6429736858 | appeasement | giving Hitler Sudetenland; Munich | 19 | |
| 6429736859 | Poland; blitzkrieg | 20 | ||
| 6429736860 | isolationism | the idea that US should strictly stay out of European affairs | 21 | |
| 6429736861 | Nye Committee | influenced isolationist legislation; led by Gerald Nye who stated US in WWI was mostly to help bankers and factories | 22 | |
| 6429736862 | Neutrality Acts | Authorized president to prohibit all arms shipments and forbid US citizens to travel on the ships of belligerent nations (1935); forbad the extension of loans to belligerents (1936); forbade shipment of arms to the Spanish civil war (1937) | 23 | |
| 6429736863 | America First Committee | formed to mobilize American public opinion against war | 24 | |
| 6429736864 | Charles Lindbergh | traveled the country warning against reengaging in Europe's troubles (America First Committee) | 25 | |
| 6429736865 | Quarantine Speech | tested public opinion of Isolationism by proposing that democracies work to "quarantine" the aggressors; overwhelmingly negative reaction | 26 | |
| 6429736866 | cash and carry | 27 | ||
| 6429736867 | Selective Training and Service Act (1940) | 1940 law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service | 28 | |
| 6429736868 | destroyers-for-bases deal | Germany tried to take over Britain with u boat attacks; US gives Britain 50 old US destroyers | 29 | |
| 6429736869 | FDR, third term | promises not to go to war but totally does | 30 | |
| 6429736870 | Wendell Willkie | criticized the New Deal but agreed with the preparedness campain | 31 | |
| 6429736871 | Four Freedoms speech | A speech by FDR that outlined the four principles of freedom (speech, religion, from want, and from fear); helped inspire Americans into patriotism. | 32 | |
| 6429736872 | Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war | 33 | |
| 6429736873 | escort convoys | American ships accompanied British ships before officially entering the war | 34 | |
| 6429736874 | Pearl Harbor | Surprise attack by Japan on US navel base; spurred US into wartime motion | 35 | |
| 6429736875 | War Production Board | During WWII, FDR established it to allocated scarce materials, limited or stopped the production of civilian goods, and distributed contracts among competing manufacturers; 30% of economy controlled by government; GDP rose 15% | 36 | |
| 6429736876 | Office of Price Administration | froze prices, wages, and rents to fight war time inflation | 37 | |
| 6429736877 | government spending, debt | spending reached new national debt of 250 billion dollars; 5 times WWI | 38 | |
| 6429736878 | role of large corporations | accounted fro 70% if wartime manufacturing | 39 | |
| 6429736879 | research and development | Government worked closely with private organizations to develop enemy defeating technology | 40 | |
| 6429736880 | Manhattan Project | code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II | 41 | |
| 6429736881 | Office of War Information | Organization that employed artists, writers and advertisers to shape public opinion concerning World War II; propaganda machine. | 42 | |
| 6429736882 | "the good war" | the unity of Americans behind the war's democratic ideals caused it to be remembered thus | 43 | |
| 6429736883 | wartime migration | north west for factories (blacks); military (mexicans and indians) | 44 | |
| 6429736884 | executive order on jobs | government formally saying you must hire blacks so that wartime goods can be manufactured | 45 | |
| 6429736885 | Smith v. Allwright | ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny membership in political parties to blacks | 46 | |
| 6429736886 | Braceros program | A program the Mexican and American government agreed to in which contract laborers would be admitted to the United States for a limited time working as migrant farm laborers and working factory jobs. | 47 | |
| 6429736887 | Japanese internment | Carried out through Executive Order 9066, which took many Japanese families away from their homes and into internment camp; Motivated by racism after Pearl Harbor bombing | 48 | |
| 6429736888 | Korematsu v. US | upheld the US policy to discriminate against Japanese Americans | 49 | |
| 6429736889 | "Rosie the Riveter" | A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories; became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. | 50 | |
| 6429736890 | wartime solidarity | governments attempt to band immigrants together to supper the US during the war; helped promote end of description against immigrants | 51 | |
| 6429736891 | election of 1944 | FDR won for the 4th time | 52 | |
| 6429736892 | Harry S. Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | 53 | |
| 6429736893 | Battle of the Atlantic | forced Britain to begin bombing German cities; spurred US to help Britain; allies won | 54 | |
| 6429736894 | strategic bombing | a military strategy used in a WWII where the Allies bombed the Japanese for days on end with the goal of weakening their defenses and bringing them to a surrender (which they never do) | 55 | |
| 6429736895 | Dwight Eisenhower | general who led D-Day attacks | 56 | |
| 6429736896 | D-Day | Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 | 57 | |
| 6429736897 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | 58 | |
| 6429736898 | island-hopping | the American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan. | 59 | |
| 6429736899 | Battle of Midway | 1942 World War II naval battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific | 60 | |
| 6429736900 | Douglas MacArther | led major battles against the Japanese in the pacific | 61 | |
| 6429736901 | kamikaze attacks | When Japanese pilots would deliberately crash their planes into American ships, killing themselves but also inflicting severe damage | 62 | |
| 6429736902 | J. Robert Oppenheimer | lead the Manhattan Project: the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear bomb. He was remembered as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb." | 63 | |
| 6429736903 | atomic bomb | a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239) | 64 | |
| 6429736904 | Hiroshima; Nagasaki | 250,000 Japanese deaths; led to Japanese surrender | 65 | |
| 6429736905 | Big Three | Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt | 66 | |
| 6429736906 | Casablanca Conference | Roosevelt and Churchill demanded unconditional surrender | 67 | |
| 6429736907 | unconditional surrender | an announcement by FDR with Churchill's endorsement that the war would end only with this. The conquered governments would be no longer, no compromise could be reached; people believe that this stiffened enemy resistance | 68 | |
| 6429736908 | Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam | when the big three met and agreed to liberate France and soviets would invade Germany | 69 | |
| 6429736909 | United Nations | The League vs. 2.0 | 70 | |
| 6429736910 | Civil Rights, "Double V" | campaign by civil rights leaders for blacks; victory over fascism abroad and equality at home | 71 |
