Neutrality?
In the summer of 1940, congress approved this first ever peacetime army expansion
draft
The most serious racial conflict of the war was the riot here in the summer of 1943, in which 34 were killed.
Detroit Riot
Roosevelt was pressured to choose him as VP candidate in 1944, a more conservative alternative to Henry A. Wallace.
Harry Truman
He led the America First isolation committee
Charles Lindbergh
He adopted technology in the Gilded Age to drive down the price of steel production
Andrew Carnegie
In 1939, Congress amended the Neutrality act to allow weapon sales on this basis
cash and carry
This organization, created in 1942, more aggressively challenged segregation and discrimination than the NAACP
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Republican candidate in the 1944 election
Thomas E Dewey
He led the movement in the US senate for isolation
Gerald Nye
His lawyers invented the trust
John D Rockefeller
In the spring of 1941, the US approved this program to provide low-cost assistance to Britain
Lend-Lease
He threatened a massive march on Washington unless blacks were given access to well-paying jobs in defense plants
A. Philip Randolph
Joint US-British statement of war aims, made in the fall of 1941
Atlantic Charter
The Allied invasion of Italy forced him out of power
Benito Mussolini
He wrote the 14th amendment, and led the Radical Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
This US ship was sunk in October 1941 while on “neutrality patrol” in the North Atlantic
USS Reuben James
The term for the violent confrontation between white and Hispanic youth in the summer of 1943 in Los Angeles
One of two New Deal programs killed by Congress early in World War II
CCC/WPA
Roosevelt’s 1940 opponent, decisively defeated, but re-energized the party
Willkie
Along with Henry Clay, he founded the Whig party
Daniel Webster
Violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the Neutrality Acts, in 1940 President Roosevelt traded these to Britain in exchange for navy bases
100 destroyers
In general, world war II had this effect on the movement to strengthen Native American tribal authority
Weakened it
This organization, in charge of controlling inflation, was never popular
Office of Price Administration
one of Britain’s greatest mathematicians since Newton, developed the first programmable computer to break German codes. He was later imprisoned for being gay.
Alan Turing
This treaty fixed the US southern boundary, and gave Florida to the US in 1819
Adams-Onis Treaty