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WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| internationalism | the idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war |
| revise | Roosevelt asked Congress to _____ the neutrality laws to allow the sale of weapons to warring nations. |
| Lend-Lease Act | This allowed the United States to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States." |
| U-boat | A German submarine fired on an American destroyer that had been radioing the U-boat's position to the British. |
| strategic materials | items important for fighting a war |
| war warning | American commanders at the Pearl Harbor naval base received a ______ ___________ from Washington D.C. |
| draft | Many Americans had opposed this before the spring of 1940. |
| disenfranchise | to deprive someone of a right |
| Tuskegee Airmen | The Air Force created its first African American unit. |
| 1942 | The year that Congress first allowed women in the military. |
| tanks | Automobile plants began to make these. |
| zoot suits | baggy, pleated pans popular with Mexican American teenagers |
| Executive Order 9066 | Allowed the War Department to declare any part of the U.S. a military zone and remove people from that zone as needed. |
| rationing | limiting the purchase of many products to make sure enough were available for military use |
| code-talkers | Navajos recruits developed code words in their own language to deceive the enemy. |