Unit 7: American Foreign Policy between the Wars Flashcards
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| 140796694 | Isolationism | policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | |
| 140796695 | Office of War Information (OWI) | agency created to consolidate government information services | |
| 140796696 | Manhattan Project | US executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II | |
| 140796697 | Mobile Auxiliary Surgical Hospital (MASH) | field hospital unit designed to be quickly set up as close to a combat zone as possible to facilitate the immediate treatment of wounded personnel | |
| 140796698 | Office of Scientific Research and Development | agency created to coordinate scientific research for military purposes during World War II | |
| 140796699 | "Good Neighbor" policy | foreign policy of the administration of FDR that intended to halt direct intervention in Latin American politics | |
| 140796700 | Neville Chamberlain | British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany | |
| 140796701 | Neutrality Acts | series of acts intended to prevent the U.S. from being drawn into a war | |
| 140796702 | Office of Price Administration (OPA) | established to stabilize prices (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II | |
| 140796703 | National War Labor Board (NWLB) | WWII agency that administered wage control in national industries such as automobiles, shipping, railways, airlines, telegraph lines, and mining | |
| 140796704 | War Manpower Commission (WMC) | charged with planning to balance the labor needs of agriculture, industry and the armed forces during WWII | |
| 140796705 | War Production Board | purpose was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the US | |
| 140796706 | Joint Chiefs of Staff | executive agency that advises the President on military questions | |
| 140796707 | War Powers Act | (1941) American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II | |
| 140796708 | General Hideki Tojo | general in the Imperial Japanese Army | |
| 140796709 | Tripartite Pact (1940) | Alliance of Japan, Germany, and Italy for World War II | |
| 140796710 | Indochina | Asian region that includes Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam | |
| 140796711 | Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | resented the desire to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers" | |
| 140796712 | Interventionism | political practice of intervening in a sovereign state's affairs | |
| 140796713 | Munich Pact | agreement permitting Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland | |
| 140796714 | Navi-Soviet Pact (1939-1941) | non-aggression pact under which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany each pledged to remain neutral in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party | |
| 140796715 | Kristallnacht (1938) | anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria | |
| 140796716 | Winston Churchill | British statesman and leader during World War II | |
| 140796717 | "the arsenal of democracy" | promising to help the British and Russians fight the Germans by giving them military supplies while staying out of the actual fighting | |
| 140796718 | "lend-lease" | transfer of goods and services to an ally to aid in a common cause | |
| 140796719 | Atlantic Charter (1941) | joint declaration made by Roosevelt and Churchill, setting out broad principles for the conduct of international relations in the postwar world |