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| 383094941 | Stimson Doctrine | Declared that the United States would not recognize any territorial acquisitions achieved by force; instigated by Japan's conquest of Manchuria; marked failure of collective security | |
| 383094942 | Neutrality Acts | Expressions of commitment to isolationism; drew support from Washington's Farewell Address | |
| 383094943 | Lend-Lease Program | Authorized sale of surplus military equipment to the Allies; used to help Great Britain and the USSR resist Germany | |
| 383094944 | Pearl Harbor | Occurred in response to the US's embargo on Japan-bound supplies; took place after Japan's negotiations with the United States had reached a stalemate | |
| 383094945 | World War II Strategy | Strategy to first defeat Germany and then attack Japan; US couldn't allow Hitler to defeat Great Britain and the USSR | |
| 383094946 | Good Neighbor Policy | US relations with Latin America; renounced the right to intervene in Latin America; sought greater cooperation with the nations of Latin America to guard against fascism | |
| 383094947 | Philippines | US promised to grant their independence; did so in 1946 | |
| 383094948 | Big Three | Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; demanded surrender of Germany and Japan; held final meeting at Yalta in February of 1945; presence of Soviet troops in Poland limited Roosevelt's option | |
| 383094949 | Military Spending | Revived US economy and decreased unemployment; helped US emerge from Great Depression | |
| 383094950 | Price Controls | Used during war to halt inflation; also established a rationing system on consumer goods | |
| 383094951 | African Americans | Continued moving from the South to the North and West; helped by Roosevelt's act preventing discrimination in defense industries | |
| 383094952 | Rosie the Riveter | Nickname given during World War II to American women who did industrial work in the 1940s; brought many who were married into the work force | |
| 383094953 | Internment | Japanese Americans were sent to relocation centers during the war on charge they were a potential security threat | |
| 383094954 | Korematsu v. United States | Challenged constitutionality of internment of Japanese Americans; upheld its constitutionality as a wartime necessity | |
| 383094955 | Manhattan Project | Plan to develop the atomic bomb; United States was the only country that had them | |
| 383094956 | Atomic Bomb | Justified under assumption that using conventional weapons would lead to more American deaths; Japanese would surrender quickly; prevent Soviet intervention; and convince the USSR to be cooperative in postwar plans |
