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Stufflet Unit 17
Unit 17 APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| term that sums up US foreign policy between World War I and World War II; refers to idea that US stayed out of world affairs | isolationism |
| Senate committee that said US entered WWI to make $ for bankers, munitions makers | Nye Committee (1934-36) |
| organization that mobilized US public opinion against WWII | America First Committee (1940) |
| plans that were meant to re-structure German reparation payments to France and Britain in 1920s | Dawes and Young Plans (1920s) |
| term to describe FDR's foreign policy toward Latin America; among other things, it called for nullification of Platt Amendment | Good Neighbor Policy |
| term FDR used to refer to the US policy of supplying democratic nations (Great Britain) with war materials | “arsenal of democracy” |
| term Japanese used to refer to area they wished to control and exploit for raw materials in eastern hemisphere | “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” |
| term to describe British and French policy that allowed Hitler to take numerous territories in pre-WWII Europe without a fight | appeasement |
| said US would supply any nation with weapons if that nation paid cash and used own ships to transport weapons (favored Brits) | “cash and carry”, 1939 |
| Brits got 50 ships; US got bases in Caribbean | Destroyers for bases, 1940 |
| Brits got all weapons they needed; US leased various British naval bases in Caribbean and Canada | Lend-Lease, 1941 |
| agreement between US and Britain that affirmed US-British goals/alliance/special relationship | Atlantic Charter, 1941 |
| Hawaiian naval base that was attacked by Japanese on 12/7/41; brought US into WWII | Pearl Harbor |
| government agency that converted and expanded US factories for wartime production | War Production Board |
| government agency that regulated prices to control inflation and implemented rationing | Office of Price Administration |
| government agency that emlisted famous filmmakers, etc. to promote idea that US was fighting for the "American way of life" | Office of War Information |
| African-American slogan that promoted idea of victory over foreign enemies and victory for civil rights at home | Double “V” |
| ethnic riots that resulted from influx of Mexican workers into Los Angeles in 1943 | “zoot suit” riots |
| required all Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans to be held in internment camps for duration of WWII | Executive Order 9066 |
| Supreme Court case that upheld constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 | Korematsu v US (1944) |
| the largest of the Japanese internment camps | Manzanar |
| term for female who worked in industrial jobs during war | “Rosie the Riveter” |
| code name for Allied invasion of northern France in 1944; also called D-Day | Operation Overlord |
| forced march of captured Americans in Philippines; 60 miles w/o food, water for shipment to prison camps; 7,000 Americans die | Bataan Death March |
| Native-Americans whose language provided a code of communication that Japanese couldn't break in Pacific war | Navajo Signal Corps |
| code name for US atomic bomb program; 1st proposed by Albert Einstein | Manhattan Project |
| assumed Presidency upon FDR's death | Harry Truman |
| scientific leader of US atomic bomb program | Robert Oppenheimer |
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