Neutrality
The Oceanic Threat
Mobilization
Wartime America
Minorities
100

The passage of these Acts in 1933 and 1937 banned weapon sales and loans to other nations at war.

Neutrality Acts 

100

President Roosevelt met with this world leader and created the Atlantic Charter

Winston Churchill 

100

These initials, printing on supplies provided to new recruits to the U.S. Army, quickly became a nickname for soldiers. 

G.I. 

100

These were money paid by citizens to the government for the war effort, with the promise the government would pay back the money. 

War Bonds 

100
Native Americans used this ancient language for coding and transmitting radio messages. Never broken by the Japanese. 

Navajo

200

This Committee found that war was a way for factories and manufacturers to make money.  

Nye Committee

200

The full date on which Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor 

December 7, 1941 

200

This is the Act by which men 18 years old have to register with the U.S. Armed Services.

Selective Service Act 

200

These groups were formed by citizens to protect Americans at home. 

Civil Defense 

200

Daily Double

The nickname of the symbolic woman in this poster


"Rosie the Riveter"

300

Daily Double

This phrase named a way for the U.S. to supply other countries with non-military goods. 

"Cash and Carry"

300

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, on December 11th, these two countries declared war on the U.S. 

Germany and Italy 

300

One of the two abbreviated women's service groups in the U.S. Armed Services.

W.A.C.s 

W.A.V.E.S.

300
Home gardens were given this nickname since they were planted to help the war effort. 

Victory Gardens

300

One of the two famous African-American groups serving in World War II

Red Ball Express

Tuskegee Airmen

400

This act allowed the US to supply military goods and loans to countries if it was for the protection and good of the US. Main trading partners included Great Britain and Russia.  

Lend-Lease Act

400

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. Navy to protect this Asian U.S. territory. 

The Philippines 

400

This type of tax helped finance the war.

corporate tax 

income tax

400

This organization kept our secrets safe. 

The Office of War Information 

400

This is the term for the program the U.S. created to recruit Mexicans to move to the U.S. and do fieldwork. 

bracero program

500

If President Roosevelt pushed for a policy internationalism early in the war. Congress pushed for a policy of __________ . 

isolationism

500

The Atlantic Charter promoted this three-word phrase for a policy toward enemy submarines in the Atlantic Ocean.

"shoot on sight"

500

One of the three organizations that helped with war production during mobilization 

WPB

OPA 

NWLB

500

2/3 of Japanese Americans called themselves by this term: a term meaning a Japanese American born of American parents. 

Nisei 

500

This U.S. Supreme Court Case ruled in favor of internment camps. 

Koramatsu v. U.S. States 

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