 | Term | Definition |
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Peacetime Dilemmas |
deciding between going to war or not; isolationism, good neighbor, fighting elsewhere, Lend-Lease |
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Tripartite Act |
1940, Japan & Germany & Italy made a defensive alliance (Japan got more supplies, etc.) |
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D-Day |
June 6, 1944; invade Normandy, largest amphibious assault in world history, led by Eisenhower |
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bracero program |
to help with wartime agriculture in which Mexican laborers could enter the US and work a little, but no citizenship or permanent residence |
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Neutrality Act of 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" |
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Nye committee |
WWI, greedy merchants of death (weapon makers, bankers, financiers) dragged US into WWI |
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Isolationism |
desire to have the US withdraw from conflicts, enjoy ocean protection, foreign policy, public opinion, not FDR's belief |
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Nazi-Soviet treaty of non-aggression |
August 1939, then Poland was invaded; so SU wouldn't oppose a German invasion like Britain & France |
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relocation centers |
the Japanese internment camps in the US, to stop any spying, conspiracy, etc. |
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Lend-Lease Act |
1941, so Brits can get arms, don't pay cash but will reimburse, to defend democracy & human rights, 4 freedoms |
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Anschluss |
1938, incorporation of the Nazi 3rd Reich into Austria |
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Bataan Death March |
65-mile walk of survivors of the Philipines attack by Japanese soldiers, to concentration camps, after Wainwright surrendered |
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Battle of the Coral Sea |
New Guinea, US defeated a Japanese armada |
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Battle of Midway |
naval, US win, by Hawaiian islands, huts Japanese navy equipment supply |
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U-Boat |
German submarine |
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Executive Order 8802 |
authorized a Committee on Fair Employment practices to investigate and prevent race descrimination, 1941 |
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Abraham Lincoln Brigade |
Americans joined this Russian-sponsored group to fight for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War |
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good neighbor |
US won't depend on military force to exercise influence in Latin America |
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Double V Campaign |
to have a victory at home and in other countries, against the war, against racial prejudice |
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Manhattan Project |
work on the atomic bomb, started in 1942 by FDR, beat out Germany bombs |
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Yalta |
secret meeting in Russia, February 1945, FDR & Stalin & Churchill, agreements: self-determination in Eastern Europe, Chiang Kai-shek as leader of China, Soviets to help Korean & Manchurian govts after fighting Japan and defeating Germany, UN |
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North African Campaign |
British and American invasion to hurt Nazi & Italian forces, no Soviets |
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divine wind |
literal translation of kamikaze, the Japanese suicide pilots who destroyed Allied ships |
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dollar-a-year |
men who help the government, Canada in WWI had men work for a rearmament campaign |
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Made in Japan |
book by Akio Morita, about Sony |
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Operation Downfall |
Allied plan for Japanese invasion, go in two parts, to Kyushu and Kanto |
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