Pre-War Events
Alliance between Hitler and Mussolini.
What was the Rome-Berlin Axis?
The invasion of this began WWII.
What was Poland?
Symbol of women workers during the war.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
Regulated prices and rationed critical items.
What was the Office of Price Administration?
Conference where the Allies agreed to allow Hitler to seize the Sudetenland.
What was the Munich Conference?
Policy that stated that democracies could buy American war materials as long as they would transport the munitions on their own ships after paying for them in cash.
What was the Neutrality Act of 1939 (cash-and-carry)?
First meeting between Churchill and FDR where they discussed national self-determination, declared for disarmament, and called for a new League of Nations.
What was the Atlantic Charter?
Controlled industry and halted production of non-essential items during the war.
What was the War Production Board?
Stated that Americans could not legally sail on a belligerent ship, sell or transport munitions to a belligerent, or make loans to a belligerent.
What were the Neutrality Acts?
Isolationist group led by Charles Lindbergh.
What was the America First Committee?
Executive order in which FDR sent Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
What was Executive Order 9066?
Program that brought migrant farm workers from Mexico.
What was the bracero program?
After Japan invaded Manchuria, this FDR speech asked for America to stay neutral but to morally side against the aggressive fascist nations (embargoes).
What was the Quarantine Speech?
Act that made the U.S. the "arsenal of democracy."
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Supreme Court case which allowed Japanese internment to continue.
What was Korematsu v. United States?
Leader of the Double-Campaign during the war.
Who was A. Philip Randolph?
American gunboat sunk by the Japanese in China in 1937.
What was the USS Panay?
Date of the Pearl Harbor attack.
What was December 7, 1941?
Leader of the U.S. Army in the Philippines.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
Occurred when some white sailors attacked Mexican-American young men in 1943 Los Angeles.
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?