Key terms from "Of the People, A history of the United States," Oaks.
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| 249542083 | Lend Lease Act | Abandoned Neutrality. Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." | |
| 249542084 | Pearl Harbor | On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the U.S. naval base in the Hawaiian Islands. Japanese leaders had hoped that their lightning strike at American bases would destroy the U.S. fleet in the Pacific. They thought the Roosevelt administration would accept Japanese domination of the Pacific. Instead the attack unified American opinion about becoming involved in the war. The U.S. now joined arms with European nations and Nationalist China in a combined effort to defeat Japan. | |
| 249542085 | Internment of Japanese Americans | 1942 forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese americans to housing facilities called "war relocation camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Then justified as a security measure, but has been since deemed unjustified | |
| 249542086 | Bracero Programs | programs set up by the US to allow Mexican workers to have limited time jobs in the United States during WWII | |
| 249542087 | Ethnic/Racial soldiers (of World War II) | African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Chinese Americans served in the armed forces. Birthed the Civil Rights movement after soldiers served to promote freedom and democracy abroad, then returned home to be subject to discrimination and Jim Crow laws still. | |
| 249542088 | Double V Campaign | The African American community in the United States resolved on a Double V Campaign: "Victory over fascism abroad, and victory over discrimination at home." | |
| 249542089 | Jewish Refugees | People of Jewish descent who fled from areas such as Germany because they faced such harsh discrimination from Hitler. However, many countries, including the United States, put harsh immigration quotas on Jews due to widespread anti-Semitism. | |
| 249542090 | Rosie the Riveter After WWII | women who worked in war factories during World War II, many of whom worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Once war is over, women are expected to give up their jobs for returning soldiers and go back to domestic life. | |
| 249542091 | A. Phillip Randolph | In 1941, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a protest march on Washington. Government officials worried that such a march would feed Hitler's propaganda machine. FDR met with Randolph, and ordered employers that did business with the government to end discrimination in hiring. The employment of black workers doubled during the war. | |
| 249542092 | Importance of Gibraltar | Hitler decides to try to take over _______ after failing in Great Britain. Strategically placed, Extremely important to Hitler, would allow him to block GB from Mediterranean sea, cut off allies from each other, allow him to take over North Africa and middle East region. | |
| 249542093 | Francisco Franco | Dictator of Spain, keeps Hitler from taking over Gibraltar. Hitler thought he had an ally in ______. People think it was because ______ was being strategic, others believe he was part Jewish and didn't want to help Hitler wipe out Jews. During WW2 Spain did more than any other nation to assist the Jews. Saved thousands of lives. | |
| 249542094 | Bataan Death March | involved the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps; was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon the prisoners and civilians along the route by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan | |
| 249542095 | D-Day | June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II. | |
| 249542096 | Legacies of WWII | 1. U.S. economic and military dominance. US produces half of the world's manufactured goods and controls over 40% of the world's wealth. 2. Russia's strong desire to create a buffer zone. Hitler's attack on Russia galvanized Russia into trying to create a buffer zone of countries friendly to Russia. 3. Onset of the Cold War. Russia trying to create buffer zone meets with disapproval of US. Creates Cold War. Talk and threats but no action. 4. The Birth of a Jewish State-Israel. Because of the persecution by Hitler, Jews to want to establish a Jewish nation, somewhere they could be safe. |
