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Neutrality Acts (all of them)
The 1935 act banned munitions exports to belligerents and restricted American travel on belligerent ships. The 1936 act banned loans to belligerents. The 1937 act extended these provisions to civil wars and gave the president discretionary authority to restrict sales to a “cash‐and‐carry” basis. The 1939 act banned U.S. ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports but allowed the United States to sell munitions, although on a “cash‐and‐carry” basis. -
War Production Board
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. -
"Cash and Carry " Plan
"Cash and carry" was a policy requested by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939, subsequent to the outbreak of war in Europe. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. -
Roosevelt's "Arsenal of Democracy" Speech
The Arsenal of Democracy was the slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast delivered on 29 December 1940. -
America First Committee
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Selective Training and Service Act
Was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. Required that men who had reached their 21st birthday but had not yet reached their 36th birthday register with local draft boards. Later, when the U.S. entered World War II, all men from their 18th birthday until the day before their 45th birthday were made subject to military service, and all men from their 18th birthday until the day before their 65th birthday were required to register. -
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Randolph's March on Washington
designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African-Americans -
Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech
he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear -
Lend-Lease Act
Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.' -
FEPC
banned “discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin -
Atlantic Charter
It was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Office of Price Adminstration
to control money and rents after the outbreak of WWII -
US enters WWII
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement -
Japanese Internment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast -
Bracero Program
was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor agreement with Mexico -
War Labor Disputes Act
The Act allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production, and prohibited unions from making contributions in federal elections. -
Tehran Conference/Operation Overlord
code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II -
Zoot Suit Riots
a series of attacks in June of 1943 in California by white American servicemen against Mexican American youths and other minorities who were residents of the city. -
What the Negro Wants
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GI Bill of Rights
a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans -
An American Dilemma - The American Creed
a statement of the defining element of American identity (American Creed); An American Dilemma: 1944 study of race relations -
Bretton Woods Conference
gathering of delegates from all Allied nations to regulate the international monetary and financial order after WWII -
Yalta Conference
WWII meeting of the heads of the governments of the U.S., UK, and Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization -
V-J Day
day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in WWII, ending the war -
United Nations
replacement for the ineffective League of Nations established after WWII in order to prevent another such conflict -
Navaho Talkers/Code Used
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater