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| 1284679237 | "Good Neighbor" policy | This policy, which was implemented by President Roosevelt, renounced any nation's right to intervene in the affairs of another. | 1 | |
| 1284679239 | "lend-lease" | Program proposed by Roosevelt to supply war materiel to cash-strapped Britain | 2 | |
| 1284679243 | "Rosie the Riveter" | Symbol of the woman war worker, who was characterized by her bulging muscles and the pneumatic gun she held. | 3 | |
| 1284679245 | braceros | Mexican farm laborers brought into the United States under contract for seasonal work who are then expected to return to their country | 4 | |
| 1284679247 | A. Philip Randolph | Organizer of the "thundering march" of one thousand blacks on Washington to protest discrimination in the armed forces. His efforts led FDR to compromise on this issue. | 5 | |
| 1284679249 | Adolf Hitler | German chancellor who imposed a brutal dictatorship on Germany and began a program to purify it of Jews—whom he considered an "inferior race" responsible for Germany's defeat in World War I. | 6 | |
| 1284679251 | appeasement | The process of making concessions to pacify, quiet, or satisfy the other party. | 7 | |
| 1284679253 | Atlantic Charter | Document that condemned international aggression, affirmed the right of national self-determination, and endorsed the principles of free trade, disarmament, and collective security. | 8 | |
| 1284679255 | Battle of the Bulge | Month-long military offensive led by Hitler. Named for the eighty-mile-long and fifty-mile-wide "bulge" that the German troops drove inside the American lines. | 9 | |
| 1284679257 | Benito Mussolini | Dictator who ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943, Mussolini suppressed dissent and liberty, imposed one-party rule and strictly controlled business and labor. | 10 | |
| 1284679259 | Holocaust | The name given to the systematic effort of the Nazis to annihilate all European Jews. | 11 | |
| 1284679261 | internment of Japanese-Americans | the confinement of about thirty-seven thousand first generation Japanese immigrants (Issei) and nearly seventy-five thousand native-born Japanese-American citizens of the United States (Nisei) in "relocation centers" guarded by military police. | 12 | |
| 1284679263 | Joseph Stalin | Former dictator of the Soviet Union. | 13 | |
| 1284679265 | Manhattan Project | Secret program launched to develop the atomic bomb. | 14 | |
| 1284679267 | Office of Price Administration | Government agency that rationed scarce products and imposed price and rent controls to check inflation. | 15 | |
| 1284679269 | Operation OVERLORD | Invasion led by General Eisenhower. Troops stormed a sixty-mile stretch of the Normandy coast in the largest amphibious invasion in history. | 16 | |
| 1284679271 | Potsdam Declaration | Ultimatum Truman gave to Japan to surrender unconditionally or face "prompt and utter destruction." | 17 | |
| 1284679273 | War Production Board | Government agency which allocated materials, limited the production of civilian goods, and distributed contracts among manufacturers. | 18 | |
| 1284679275 | Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain from 1940 —1955. | 19 | |
| 1284679277 | Yalta accords | Agreement reached at Yalta Conference by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. | 20 | |
| 1284679279 | Neutrality Acts | The U.S. created four neutrality acts before WWII that were designed to try to keep the U.S. out of the war in Europe. | 21 | |
| 1284679281 | War Powers Act | Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort | 22 | |
| 1284679283 | Nuremberg Laws | 1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood. | 23 | |
| 1284679285 | Wendell Willkie | Franklin Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the 1940 Presidential election. | 24 | |
| 1284679287 | Jewish refugees, the vessel St. Louis | ... | 25 | |
| 1284679289 | cash and carry | policy adopted by the United States in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them. | 26 | |
| 1284679291 | 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 A. Lindbergh (the aviator) was its most effective speaker. | 27 | |
| 1284679293 | lend lease | allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S | 28 | |
| 1284679296 | Pearl Harbor | 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II. | 29 | |
| 1284679298 | destroyers for bases swap | Roosevelt's compromise for helping Britain as he could not sell Britain US destroyers without defying the Neutrality Act; Britain received 50 old but still serviceable US destroyers in exchange for giving the US the right to build military bases on British Islands in the Caribbean. | 30 | |
| 1284679300 | Smith-Connally Labor Disputes Act | passed by Congress in 1943; allowed the president to prohibit strikes in defense industries and forbade political contributions by unions | 31 | |
| 1284679302 | Office of War Information | established by the government to promote patriotism and help keep Americans united behind the war effort. | 32 | |
| 1284679304 | Rosie the Riveter | A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part. | 33 | |
| 1284679306 | Double V campaign | The World War II-era effort of black Americans to gain "a Victory over racism at home as well as Victory abroad." | 34 | |
| 1284679308 | A. Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | ... | 35 | |
| 1284679310 | Navajo code talkers | Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not desipher | 36 | |
| 1284679312 | Fulgencio Batista | He was a pro-American dictator of Cuba before Castro. His overthrow led to Castro and communists taking over Cuba, who was now friendly to the Soviets. | 37 | |
| 1284679314 | appeasement | A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler. | 38 | |
| 1284679316 | Gerald Nye | Republican of North Dakota, headed a 1934-1936 Senate investigation, which concluded that banking and munition interests, whom it called "merchants of death", had tricked the US into war to protect their loans and weapon sales to England and France | 39 | |
| 1284679318 | Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war | 40 | |
| 1284679320 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | (FDR following death) nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman | 41 | |
| 1284679322 | Allied invasion of North Africa | June 6, 1944: D-Day | 42 | |
| 1284679324 | Dwight Eisenhower | (FDR) United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy, Casablanca and the defeat of Nazi Germany | 43 | |
| 1284679326 | Potsdam Conference | July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction. | 44 | |
| 1284679327 | Battle of Midway | 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific | 45 | |
| 1284679329 | General Douglas MacArthur | commander of the US forces in the Philippine Islands who directed the Allied occupation of Japan | 46 | |
| 1284679331 | Admiral Chester Nimitz | He was the commander of the Pacific Fleet during WW2, and he was the man who directed the U.S. victories at Midway, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa | 47 | |
| 1284679333 | The Grand Alliance | Alliance between Britain, U.S., and Russia that agreed to deal with a "Europe First" policy in which defending against Germany was the priority. However this Alliance was short lived due to a lack of trust between the three members as well as the fact that they each believed that they were powerful enough independently. | 48 | |
| 1284679335 | Harry S Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | 49 | |
| 1284679337 | WACS, WAVES, WASPS | (Women's Army Corps, the Navy's Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service, Women's Airforce Service Pilots) women replaced men in noncombat jobs, when they left the servies women had the same rights and privileges as male veterans | 50 | |
| 1284679339 | Executive Order 8802 | In 1941 FDR passed it which prohibited discriminatory employment practices by fed agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war related work. It established the Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce the new policy. | 51 | |
| 1284679341 | Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa | Two battles that cost many American lives. Wanted the islands to set up bomb bases closer to Japan. | 52 | |
| 1284679343 | Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein | ... | 53 | |
| 1284679345 | Selective Service and Training Act | 1940 law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service | 54 | |
| 1284679346 | arsenal of democracy | Referred to America's Ability to supply its European allies with war supplies prior to the U.S. entry into WWII. | 55 | |
| 1284679347 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition | 56 | |
| 1284679348 | interment of Japanese Americans | 1941, Wartime policy to evacuate from West Coast and incarcerate all those with Japanese heritage, U.S. citizens included; height of "yellow-peril" | 57 |
