Who's Who
Who wrote the Roosevelt Corollary?
Theodore Roosevelt
What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
The US could sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the President saw as vital to the defense of the American battleships that protected British ships
When was D-Day?
June 6, 1944
Who created the island-hopping strategy?
General Douglas MacArthur
What speech did Roosevelt tell the nation that said peaceful countries had to act together to isolate aggressive nations?
Quarantine Speech
Who seized power of the Soviet Union and established a brutal totalitarian dictatorship?
Joseph Stalin
What was the goal of the "cash-and-carry" basis?
To keep the US out of what was going to be another inevitable European conflict
When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
Who led the allied troops on D-Day?
General Dwight Eisenhower
Who were the Flying Tigers?
U.S. volunteer fighter pilots that flew in supplies and engaged in combat with Japanese pilots
Who rose to Fascist power in Italy in the 1920s?
Benito Mussolini
What deal did the U.S. sign with the UK to exchange 50 naval destroyers for rights on lands Britain had previously possessed?
Destroyer for Bases Agreement
What was the Korematsu v. U.S. case about?
The movement of Japanese Americans to internment camps
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen
An all African-American group in the Air Corps who provided escorts for pilots on bombing misisons
What regulated the amount of goods a consumer could buy?
Rationing
Who was the dictator in Germany during World War II?
Adolf Hitler
What prohibited Americans from traveling on the ships of nations at war?
Neutrality Acts
Who surprised who at the Battle of the Bulge?
Germany caught the allies by surprise in a counterattack
What part did the Navajo soldiers play in the war?
They could communicate in their own language and it could not be broken by the Japanese
What was the point of Victory Gardens?
To help ensure an adequate food supply for troops and civilians
Whose approach to improve relations through operation and trade was called the "Good Neighbor Policy"?
F.D.R.
What laid the foundation for the later creation of the United Nations?
Atlantic Charter
What was it called when U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese to march through the jungle for 60 miles?
The Bataan Death March
Who created "dollar diplomacy"?
President Taft
What did the Office of War Information start to broadcast messages overseas?
Voice of America