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| 139181073 | Charles Lindberg | Stood against the Roosevelt Administration, didn't want to go to war against Nazis or go to Britain's aid | 0 | |
| 139181074 | America First Committee | A committee organized by isolationists before WWII, who wished to spare American lives. They wanted to protect America before we went to war in another country. Charles sLindbergh was its most effective speaker. | 1 | |
| 139181075 | Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region | 2 | |
| 139181076 | Chiang Kai-shek | Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party after 1925 | 3 | |
| 139181077 | Neutrality Act 1937 | allow trade but prevent foreign entanglements by requiring warring nations to pay cash for non-military goods, and trasnport them in their ships, "cash-and-carry" | 4 | |
| 139181078 | Cash and Carry Policy | 1939. Law passed by Congress which allowed a nation at war to purchase goods and arms in US as long as they paid cash and carried merchandise on their own ships. This benefited the Allies, because Britain was dominant naval power. | 5 | |
| 139181079 | Blitkrieg | Literally it means "lightning war". It was first used by the Germans in WWII as a form of surprise attack form of warfare | 6 | |
| 139181080 | Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies | 1940 - Formed by isolationists who believed that the U.S. could avoid going to war by giving aid in the form of supplies and money to the Allies, who would fight the war for America. | 7 | |
| 139181081 | Lend-Lease Act 1941 | A program in which the United States supplied war supplies to the U.K, Soviet Union, China, France, and other nations in exchange for military bases in Bermuda and the West Indies. | 8 | |
| 139181082 | Natzi-Soviet Pact | Hitler offered Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin concessions to prevent the Soviet Union from joining Germany's enemies in the west. The two rival powers shocked the world by signing a Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in august 1939. | 9 | |
| 139181083 | Tripartite Pact | alliance of Italy, Germany, and Japan | 10 | |
| 139181084 | Vichy Government | Puppet government of France after it's defeat by Germany. | 11 | |
| 139181085 | Hideki Tojo | Prime minister of Japan during World War II | 12 | |
| 139181086 | Emperor Hirohito | Japanese emperor during WWII | 13 | |
| 139181087 | Jeannette Rankin | The first woman elected to congress. She was from montana and voted against WWI as well as WWII. | 14 | |
| 139181088 | Admiral Yamamoto | Japans Greatest naval strategists, who called for the attack on Pearl Harbor. He also commanded the fleet that attacked Midway Island. | 15 | |
| 139181089 | Douglass MacArthur | prominent leader in Pacific theater during WWII and was involved with many battles in the Philippines, after which he traveled to Australia for safe being and final battle with US Missouri ship after atomic bombing of Japan | 16 | |
| 139181090 | Baatan Death March | Long trek across the Philippines that American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to make by the Japanese in 1942. | 17 | |
| 139181091 | Chester Nimitz | Nimitz served as an Admiral in the Battle of Midway in 1942. He commanded the American fleet in the Pacific Ocean and learned the Japanese plans through "magic" decoding of their radio messages. With this intercepted information, Nimitz headed the Japanese off and defeated them. | 18 | |
| 139181092 | Dwight Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany | 19 | |
| 139181093 | George Patton | Known as "Old Blood and Guts," one of the most colorful generals of World War II. During World War II he served in North Africa and Sicily before becoming the commander of the Third Army. | 20 | |
| 139181094 | Charles deGaulle | French General who Led the French resistance. Organized the Free French military forces that battled the Nazis until France was liberated in 1944. | 21 | |
| 139181095 | Women and Minorities in the War | Took jobs in the war industry when soldiers went off to war. Became successful with jobs and money, as wages went up. | 22 | |
| 139181096 | Executive Order 8802 | Issued by President Roosevelt after A. Phillip Randolph threatened to descend on Washington. It authorized the Committee of Fair Employment Practices to investigate and prevent racial discrimination in employment. | 23 | |
| 139181097 | Japanese Internment | Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States during WWII. Roughly 110,000 men, women, and children were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior. | 24 | |
| 139181098 | Selective Service Act 1940 | created the first peacetime draft in US history and established the Selective Service System which ultimately proveded about 10 million soldiers toward the war effort. | 25 | |
| 139181099 | Battle of the Bulge | December, 1944-January, 1945 - After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg which pushed a 30 mile "bulge" into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses. | 26 | |
| 139181100 | Island Hopping | WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan | 27 | |
| 139181101 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships. | 28 | |
| 139181102 | Manhattan Project | code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II | 29 | |
| 139181103 | Munich Agreement | To avoid war, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to allow Hitler to annex Sudetenland as long as he didn't attempt to take anymore land in Europe. French and Italian leaders agreed to this. | 30 | |
| 139181104 | Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister prior to WWII who signed a peace treaty with Germany which promised "Peace in our time." Hitler did not honor the treaty, attacked Britain, and Winston Churchill replaced Chamberlain. | 31 |
