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100
How did the Lend-Lease Act affect America?
It allowed for a side-stepping of the Neutrality Acts and supporting the Allies through the "borrowing" of supplies.
100
What were Japanese motivations for an attack on the United States?
US demanded a stop of expansion through sanctions and an oil embargo.
100
After WWII, the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine are two parts of what larger US policy?
Containment
100
A major turning point in the European Theater occurred in 1942 when Hitler's armies will no longer advance.
Stalingrad
100
What event will draw the US into WWII?
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
200
A MASSIVE increase in defense spending was called for by this TOP SECRET document after WWII?
NSC-68
200
There was a massive migration again northward of African-Americans at the beginning of WWII. Why?
An abundance of recently desegregated wartime jobs.
200
As WWII began in 1939 the US remained isolated to prevent another "Lusitania" event. How was this acheived?
Congress passed the Neutrality Acts making it illegal to trade with belligerents.
200
Since the Japanese Army spread all throughout the Pacific, this new approach was taken to cut off and isolate less strategic islands?
"Island Hopping" to the main islands of military importance
200
The Marshall Plan had what stated goal?
To offer relief to war-torn Europe all-the-while dissuading communism through US economic aid.
"Democracy = $$$$$"
300
Who famously challenged the forced relocation of western Nisei citizens?
Fred Korematsu
300
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led directly to Executive Order 9066 signed by FDR. What was the result?
The forced relocation of all 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to internment camps.
300
The Red Scare hit a fever pitch with new sets of witch hunts broadcast over radio and the newly-invented television. What name was given to this new process of blacklisting and dissuading communism?
McCarthyism
300
D-Day (Operation Overlord) was crucial for the Allies for what reason?
Opening a western front in France to force Hitler to split his military into 2 segments.
300
The Truman Doctrine was implemented first in Greece and Turkey after WWII. How so?
These countries were about to fall prey to communist expansion and influence of the Soviet Union so the US agreed to aid any country to resist communism.
400
The "Big Three" first met in person near the end of the war to discuss what topic?
The protocol of how to divide Germany in order to rebuild and restore it.
400
How did Henry Ford contribute to WWII?
He converted many of his factories from mass producing cars to planes, tanks and other war machines.
400
The Soviet detonation of a nuclear device in 1949 (named Joe-1) led to hysteria and conviction of these scientists?
The Rosenbergs
400
The Japanese fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa was so intense in 1945 that it led to what decision to force an unconditional surrender?
The dropping of the atomic bomb
400
What was a Levittown?
A large, conformity suburb neighborhood that housed the larger families from the Baby Boom.
500
What are 3 changes seen on the Homefront for wartime mobilization?
Return of propaganda, women in factories, desegregation of war industries, rationing, victory gardens, Japanese Internment
500
What was the "Double V" campaign?
It pushed for "Victory At Home & Abroad" to defeat dictators and defeat racism.
500
How did the post-WWII era lead to a growing suburban culture?
The Baby Boom occurred leading to the need for larger houses and more space along with even more affordable cars.
500
Hitler's final push to obtain fuel and break Allied lines came as a surprise in the Ardennes Forest in the winter. However, Allied lines bent but never broke in this crucial blow for Hitler to garner fuel.
Battle of the Bulge
500
Upon the return of soldiers from WWII and the Korean War there was a spike in what?
The amount of children born in America drastically increased.
