Neutrality Acts
Year the first neutrality act was passed prohibiting Americans from sending arms, ammunition, and other implements of war to foreign nations at war (beligerents)
World War 2 was fought on 2 fronts. Where was it fought first?
North Africa
Women took the place of men in this workplace
Munition factories
Name of the secret mission to create the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
Churchill, in a speech in Missouri, coined this phrase when describing how a line of communism has formed in Europe
Iron Curtain
the ability to sell non-military goods as long as the buyer paid in cash and provided transportation
Cash and Carry
This event led to our involvement in WW 2
Pearl Harbor
Executive order that put Japanese Americans, German Americans and Italian Americans into internment camps
Executive Order 9066
Two atomic bomb names
Little Boy
Providing economic aid to countries that were at risk of falling to communism. Namely, Greece and Turkey
Marshall Plan
this authorized the US to sell, lease or lend war materials to any nation the President deemed vital to the defense of the US.
Lend-Lease Act
The turning point in the war in the Pacific
Group of Native Americans that used codes to secretly pass along intelligence
Navajo Code Talkers
Two cities that were attacked with the bombs
Nagasaki
Keeping a "lid" on communism
Containment
secret meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt that laid the foundation for the future United Nations and what do with a post-war Europe.
Atlantic Charter
June 6, 1944
D-Day
Battle of Normandy
Double V Campaign
Victory over tyranny in Europe
Victory over racism at home
Most famous of the extermination camps during the war
Auschwitz
If a country falls to communism then its neighbor is at risk and then the next ..........
Domino Theory
1941 State of the Union address, FDR hoped to establish a world of: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear
Four Freedoms
May 7-8, 1945
August 15-September 2, 1945
V-E Day
V-J Day
5 ways Americans supported the soldiers from home
1. bonds
2. rationing
3. victory gardens
4. carpooling
5. enlisting
Land invasion
Hold a demonstration of the destruction power
Use a bomb on an industrial city
Wait for Soviets to get involved
Continue with air bombardments
China
Korea
Vietnam