Americans Before the War
Mobilization Station
Axis and Allies
All's Quiet on the Home Front
Fighting the Good Fight
100
A national policy of avoiding involvement in World Affairs
What is Isolationism?
100
This wartime policy required citizens to save on resources; food, clothes, metals, etc..
What is Rationing?
100
"The alliance around which the world will revolve" Italy, Germany, and Japan.
What are the Axis Powers?
100
US agreement to import farm workers from Mexico to fill labor shortages.
What is the Bracero Program?
100
This policy had America take over islands one by one to create a chain of bases to the Japanese Mainland.
What is Island Hopping?
200
Laws passed in 1937-1939 that worked to limit the United States' involvement in foreign affairs.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
200
This group saw expanded opportunities in the American workforce as a result of labor shortages from the war effort.
Who are women?
200
This policy argued that nations such as Britain and France should make concessions to more aggressive nations (like Germany) in order to avoid conflict.
What is Appeasement?
200
President FDR's order to imprison Japanese Americans in internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
200
What is the Atomic Bomb?
300
This event on Dec. 7, 1941 angered many Americans and officially ended US neutrality.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
300
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
300
Dictator of Germany. Not a pleasant fellow.
Who is Hitler?
300
World War II brought about the end of this, as high demand for labor to manufacture wartime supplies led to more jobs and higher wages for those working.
What is the Great Depression?
300
This surprise attack of a combined US, British, and French forces caught the Nazis off guard, allowing the allies a foothold into Europe.
What is D-Day?
400
This congressional act worked around the Neutrality Acts by allowing "allies important to (the US) national defense to borrow weapons and supplies for low rates.
What is the Lend-Lease Act
400
In addition to sending soldiers to fight in the war, America did this to help Britain and the Soviet Union keep fighting.
What is provide wartime supplies?
400
Dictator of the Soviet Union and "ally" of the United States. Also not a nice man.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
This slogan was used by African American soldiers to describe their struggles and efforts at home and abroad during and after the war. Also looks like a W.
What is the Double V campaign.
400
This group of scientists worked under secrecy to develop the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan. They were named for a city they had nothing to do with.
What is The Manhattan Project?
500
President FDR wanted to help the allied powers without directly getting the US involved in the war.This policy, which allowed allied nations to purchase weapons and supplies if they paid and transported them themselves, allowed him to do that.
What is Cash-Carry?
500
What does this picture represent?
What is Wartime Production?
500
This was Japan's reasoning for attacking Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
What is, the US trade embargo on Japan and support of Chinese rebels?
500
This 1944 US supreme court case upheld that Roosevelt's internment policy of Japanese Americans was legal, as national defense trumped individual rights during wartime. The US government wouldn't apologize until 1988.
What is Korematsu vs US?
500
This meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman set the strategies for what to due after the war. Stalin kept almost none of his promises from this.
What is the Yalta Conference?