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Unit Nine APUSH
Mrs. Grieve's Unit Nine (World War II)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| isolationism | term that sums up US foreign policy between WW I and WW II; refers to idea that US stayed out of world affairs |
| Nye Committee (1934-1936) | Senate committee that said US entered WW I to make $ for bankers and munitions makers |
| America First Committee (1940) | organization that mobilized US public opinion against WW II |
| Rape of Nanking | term that refers to Japanese destruction in a particular Chinese city in the 1930s |
| Good Neighbor Policy | term to describe FDR’s foreign policy toward Latin America; among other things, it called for nullification of the Platt Amendment |
| “arsenal of democracy” | term FDR used to refer to the US policy of supplying democratic nations (Great Britain) with war materials |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | term Japanese used to refer to area they wished to control and exploit for raw materials in eastern hemisphere |
| Panay incident (1937) | US gunboat sunk by Japan after Japanese invasion of China; US accepts Japanese apology |
| Ethiopia | African nation invaded by Italy in 1935 |
| appeasement | term to describe British and French policy that allowed Hitler to take numerous territories in pre-WW II Europe without a fight |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939) | agreement between Germany and USSR that divided Poland and in which both sides promised to not fight each other for at least 10 years |
| “cash and carry” (1939) | said US would supply any nation with weapons if that nation paid cash and used own ships to transport weapons (favored British) |
| Selective Service Act (1940) | required registration of all men 21-35 |
| Destroyers for Bases (1940) | Brits got 50 ships; US got bases in Caribbean |
| Lend-Lease (1941) | Brits got all weapons they needed; US leased various British naval bases in Caribbean and Canada |
| Atlantic Charter (1941) | agreement between US and Britain that affirmed US-British goals/alliances/special relationship |
| Pearl Harbor | Hawaiian naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 12/7/41; brought US into WW II |
| Operation Barbarossa | code name for German invasion of USSR in 1941 |
| War Production Board | government agency that converted and expanded US factories for wartime production |
| Office of Price Administration | government agency that regulated prices to control inflation and implemented rationing |
| Office of War Information | government agency that enlisted famous filmmakers, etc… to promote idea that US was fighting for the “American Way of Life” |
| Double V | African-American slogan that promoted idea of victory over foreign enemies and victory for civil rights at home |
| “zoot suit” riots | ethnic riots that resulted from influx of Mexican workers into Los Angeles in 1943 |
| Executive Order 9066 | required all Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans to be held in internment camps for duration of WW II |
| Korematsu v US (1944) | Supreme Court case that upheld constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 |
| “Rosie the Riveter” | term for female who worked in industrial jobs during war |
| Operation TORCH | code name for the US invasion of north Africa in 1942 |
| Operation Overlord | code name for Allied invasion of northern France in 1944; also called D-Day |
| Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander of D-Day |
| Utah and Omaha | code names for US beaches on D-Day invasion |
| Battle of the Bulge | last ditched German offensive of 1944-1945 on western front |
| Bataan Death March | forced march of captured Americans in Philippines; 60 miles without food and water for shipment to prison camps; 7,000 Americans died |
| Island hopping | term to describe US strategy of taking small islands in Pacific on way to Japan |
| Navajo Signal Corps | Native Americans whose language provided a code of communication that Japanese couldn’t break in Pacific war |
| Manhattan Project | code name for US atomic bomb program; first proposed by Albert Einstein |
| Harry Truman | assumed Presidency upon FDR’s death |
| Robert Oppenheimer | scientific leader of US atomic bomb program |
| Yalta Conference (February 1945) | conference where Allies agreed to occupy Germany |
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