Rise of Dictators
The prices for goods increases at an incredible rate
What is inflation?
The giving in to aggressive demands to maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
The two countries that became allies on September 3, 1939 and declared war on Germany.
Who are Great Britain and France?
The policy that allowed countries at war to purchase American goods.
What is cash-and carry?
The working women of the war came to be represented by this symbolic figure.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The system of government that stresses the glory of the state.
What is fascism?
The German term for "lightning war" where overwhelming combinations of air attacks and fast-moving armored strikes to drive deep into enemy territory.
What is blitzkrieg?
The three countries that formed a military alliance known as the Axis Powers in 1940.
Who are Japan, Germany, and Italy?
The law that Congress passed that allowed the United States to send weapons to Great Britain regardless of its ability to pay.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The most significant scientific program of World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The government in which a leader or group holds unchallenged power and authority.
What is a dictatorship?
The term used to not aid one side or the other.
What is neutral?
The desire to avoid involvement in foreign wars.
What is isolationism?
The agreement that proclaimed the shared goals of the United States and Britain in opposing Hitler and his allies.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
The powerful weapon that used energy released by the splitting of atoms.
What is the atomic bomb?
The leader Italians referred to as "Il Duce"
Who is Mussolini?
The German Air Force.
What is Luftwaffe?
The law that was passed in 1935 meant to prevent the U.S. from being drawn into war as it had been in 1917.
What is the Neutrality Act?
The location of the attack that happened on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The demand for farm labor led the U.S. and Mexican governments to establish this program.
What is the Bracero Program?
The dictator who came into power in Germany who secretly began to rebuild the German forces and violate the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Hitler?
The unoccupied part of France.
What is Vichy France?
The speech that Roosevelt gave that urged the United States to work with peace-loving countries to quarantine aggressive nations and stop the spread of war.
What is the Quarantine Speech?
The communication that is primarily used to influence a particular political cause.
What is propaganda?
The series of riots in Los Angeles, California during World War II.
What is the zoot suit riot?