Causes of WWII
This attack directly caused the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This group was forcibly moved into internment camps under Executive Order 9066.
Who are Japanese Americans?
These freedoms included speech, worship, freedom from want, and fear.
What are the Four Freedoms?
This term refers to the first three months of Roosevelt’s presidency.
What are the Hundred Days?
This act provided veterans with aid for housing, education, and jobs.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
This policy aimed to avoid involvement in foreign wars before WWII.
What is isolationism?
Workers made this pledge so they would not go on strike during the war.
What is the no-strike pledge?
This was a secret U.S. government project to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This act temporarily closed banks and provided federal oversight.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
This conference replaced the British pound with the U.S. dollar in global trade.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
These laws restricted trade with countries at war to keep the U.S. neutral.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
These riots were attacks on Mexican American youth in Los Angeles.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
This organization was created in 1945 to promote global peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
This program employed young men in physical labor for government wages.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This event introduced nuclear weapons and helped begin the arms race.
What are the atomic bombings of Japan?
This invasion drew France and Great Britain into WWII.
What is Germany’s invasion of Poland?
African Americans served in these units and were often given noncombat roles.
What are segregated units?
This declaration outlined shared democratic principles and postwar goals.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
This act set production quotas and paid farmers to plant less.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
These institutions were created to stabilize the world economy.
What are the IMF and World Bank?
This act allowed the U.S. to send supplies to Allied countries.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This program allowed Mexican men to work in the U.S. on short-term contracts.
What is the Bracero Program?
This conference planned Europe’s postwar reorganization.
What is the Yalta Conference?
How did the Second New Deal differ from the First?
The Second focused more on long-term reform and social welfare compared to immediate economic recovery.
This conference highlighted growing tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union after WWII.
What is the Potsdam Conference?