Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ch 8 Review Boo
Vocab, People and Supreme Court Cases from Chapter 8 of your Review Book
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Neutrality Acts | a series of acts passed by Congress in the 1930s aimed at keeping the United States out of World War II |
| Cash and Carry Policy | US policy during World War II by which goods could be sold to warring nations as long as those nations paid for them in cash and transported them with their own ships |
| Appeasement | the policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep peace |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed US to lend war materials to any country "whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States" |
| Allies | WWII alliance of Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other nations |
| Axis Powers | group of countries led by Germany, Italy and Japan that fought the Allies in World War II |
| Manhattan Project | secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb |
| Executive Order 9981 | Ended racial segregation in the military |
| Executive Order 9066 | Established military zones for imprisonment of Japanese Americans (internment camps) |
| Code Talkers | members of the Navajo nation who used his tribe's language as a code to send military messages during World War II |
| Fair Deal | President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms |
| G.I. Bill of Rights | Nickname for the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 that authorized billions of dollars to pay for veterans's benefits such as college, medical treatment, unemployment insurance, and home and business loans. |
| "Baby Boom" | rapid growth in the population of the United States between 1945 and 1964 |
| Tuskegee Airmen | First black military pilots. |
| Korematsu v. United States (1944) | Ruled that forcible relocation of Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII was legal. Upheld the idea that the president could limit civil liberties in wartime. |
| Genocide | systematic destruction of a race of people |
| The Final Solution | Nazi policy to eliminate all Jewish people throughout German-controlled territories during World War II |
| United Nations | international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace |
| Robert Jackson | Supreme Court Justice who represented the US at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials at the end of WWII |
| Nuremberg Trials | post-World War II trials in which German government and military figures were tried for crimes committed during the war ("Crimes against humanity") |
Created by:
mrfordglobal
Popular U.S. History sets