What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
100
launched a blitzkrieg against Poland
Who is Hitler?
100
the Court allowed the removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast on the basis of “military necessity” but avoided ruling on the constitutionality of the incarceration program
What is Korematsu v. United States (1944)?
200
(the German legislature
What is the Reichstag?
200
wrote Mein Kampf
Who is Hitler?
200
FEPC
What is Fair Employment Practices Commission?
200
the legislation authorized the president to “lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of” arms and equipment to Britain or any other country whose defense was considered vital to the security of the United States
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
200
“discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin”
What is Executive Order 8802?
300
1940 presidential election nominee against FDR Wendell Willkie of IN,
Who is Wendell Willkie of IN?
300
banned loans to belligerents and in 1937 it imposed a “cash-and-carry” requirement
What is Congress?
300
CORE
What is Congress of Racial Equality?
300
"a date which will live in infamy"
What is December 7, 1941?
300
the Big Three
Who are President FDR, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union?
400
the lone dissenter who voted against WWII
Who is Jeanette Rankin of MT?
400
awarded defense contracts, allocated scarce resources- such as rubber, copper, and oil- for military uses, and persuaded businesses to convert to military production
What is War Production Board?
400
WPB
What is the War Production Board?
400
expanded the number of people paying income taxes from 3.9 million to 42.6 million
What is the Revenue Act of 1942?
400
which authorized the War Department to force Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes and hold them in relocation camps for the rest of the war
What is Executive Order 9066?
500
the name of a German ocean liner carrying nearly a thousand Jewish refugees sought permission from President Roosevelt to dock at an American port, FDR had refused
What is the St. Louis?
500
head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters he announced plans for a march on Washington in the summer of 1941
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
500
AFC
What is America First Committee?
500
disseminated news and promoted patriotism
What is the Office of War Information?
500
produced the first controlled atomic chain reaction using highly processed uranium