Policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace.
What is appeasement?
100
This measure assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce these requirements.
What is Executive Order 8802?
100
Code name for the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
The Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections. However, Stalin later reneged on this promise.
What is the Yalta Conference?
100
Temporary Imprisonment.
What is internment?
200
Act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
200
Government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during WWII.
What is OWI (Office of War Information)?
200
Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WWII
What is kamikaze?
200
A 1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs.
What is Gatt (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)?
200
An organization that sought to apply non-violent protest as a means of fighting segregation.
What is CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)?
300
Act passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the United States.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
300
Bringing laborers from Mexico to work on American farms.
What is the bracero program?
300
WWII strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others.
What is island hopping?
300
An organization founded in 1945 to promote peace. Many people hoped, would succeed where the league of Nations had failed.
What is the United Natons (UN)?
300
Government-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime.
What is rationing?
400
The agreement reached at the conference, had preserved "peace for our time" This agreement was made between Germany, Italy, Great Britian, and France in 1938 that sacrificed the Sudentenland to preserve peace.
(Appeasement)
What is Munich Pact?
400
U.S. Army groups established during WWII so that women could serve in noncombat roles?
What is WAC (Women's Army Corps)?
400
The final battle of the WWII in Europe. The allies called this V-E Day.
What is Battle of the Bulge?
400
Allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes.
What is the Nuremberg Trials?
400
Group of countries led by Germany, Japan, and Italy that fought the Allies in WWII.
Who are the Axis Power?
500
FDR stated everyone in the world shall have freedoms of speech, worship, want, and fear.
What are the "Four Freedoms Speech?
500
The Court held that the military order was justifed for security reasons.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
500
Using a code based on their own language__Which was a mystery to the Japanese.
What is Navajo Code Talkers?
500
United States and Soviet Union emerged from the war confident and strong.
Who are the Superpowers?
500
"lighting war" that emphasized the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory?