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Unit 7--Part 3
APUSH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organization that mobilized US public opinion against WWII | America First Committee (1940) |
| re-structured German reparation payments to France and Britain in 1920s and revived the German economy | Dawes Plan |
| term to describe FDR's foreign policy toward Latin America; among other things, it called for nullification of Platt Amendment | Good Neighbor Policy |
| 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" |
| Brits got all weapons they needed; US leased various British naval bases | Lend-Lease |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| code name for Allied invasion of northern France in 1944; also called D-Day | Operation Overlord |
| Native-Americans whose language provided a code of communication that Japanese couldn't break in Pacific war | Navajo Code Talkers |
| code name for US atomic bomb program; 1st proposed by Albert Einstein | Manhattan Project |
| scientific leader of US atomic bomb program | Robert Oppenheimer |
| signed by US; negotiated by US Secretary of State; outlawed war | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| negotiated naval sizes to maintain order in the 1920s | Washington Conference |
| spokesman for America First; displayed antisemitism and sympathy for Nazi Germany | Charles Lindbergh |
| movement of African-Americans to north and especially west starting in World War II | Second Great Migration |
| banned racial discrimination in any company that did defense business with federal govt | Executive Order 8802 |
| allowed for importation of Mexican laborers into US, especially during harvest season | Bracero program |
| US strategy of skipping over heavily fortified islands on the way to Japan, assuming those islands could be cut off from their supply chains instead | island hopping |
| example of Allied cooperation; US/GB/USSR agree to liberate France; USSR will invade Germany | Teheran Conference |
| international organization formed after World War II to solve disputes | United Nations |
| American ideals outlined in FDR speech; Norman Rockwell enshrined them in famous poster | Four Freedoms |