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The Neutrality Acts were passed by Congress in the 1930s, they were passed in response to the issues in Europe and Asia that led to World War II.
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The Manhattan Project was a research/development program during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Cash and carry was a policy that replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936.
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The Selective Training and Service Act required that men who were between the ages of 21 and 36 enlisted in local drafts.
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During WWII the Arsenal of Democracy was the slogan used by Roosevelt in a radio broadcast, Roosevelt promised to help the UK fight Germany by providing them with military supplies.
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The March was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and to encourage them to provide fair working opportunities for African Americans.
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The Four Freedoms were goals talked about by Roosevelt in his Four Freedoms speech where he proposed four freedoms that people everywhere in the word should enjoy: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, Freedom from fear.
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Lend-Lease Act is when Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, and exchange of weapons and supplies to any country whose defense seemed vital to the United States' protection. It was the United States' way of staying out of the war while still helping other countries.
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Executive Order 8802: banned “discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.”
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The War Production Board was an agency of the United States that supervised war production during WWII.
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The Atlantic Charter was a declaration released by President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill that provided a statement of U.S. and British war aims.
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The Office of Price Administration was originally formed to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
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The America First Committee was a group against American entry into WWII.
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CORE is an African-American civil rights organization in the US that played a major role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the US during WWII was the forced relocation Japanese Americans in camps in the western parts of the country.
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The Bracero Program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements when the US signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.
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The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of attacks in LA by white American servicemen against young Mexican Americans (and other minorities) who were residents of the city.
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War Labor Disputes Act gave the president power to seize and operate privately owned war plants when an actual or threatened strike or lockout interfered with war efforts.
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Korematsu v. United States was Supreme Court case about whether or not the Executive Order 9066, that ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II (regardless of citizenship), was constitutional.
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A set essays on the subject "What the Negro Wants" written by fifteen African American individuals.
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a study of race relations authored by Gunnar Myrdal.
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G.I. Bill provided benefits to World War II veterans.
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The Bretton woods conference of 730 delegates to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the end of WWII.
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A governmental organization that promotes international cooperation.
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Navajo speakers were specially recruited during WWII by the Marines to serve in their communication units.