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Interwar Foreign Policy
The United States wished to remain neutral during the war. They attempted, in the beginning, to only send over supplies and resources to their allies and not get directly involved in the war. -
National Defense Advisory Commission
President Roosevelt created the commission in hopes to increase the nations defense in the economy and the military. It assisted in the coordination of resources and commerce in support of the war effort, including transportation, industrial and agricultural output, economic aid for the war, and public morale. -
Land Lease Act
An Act where America could lend materials to other nations that were considered to be beneficial to the United States. By doing this it exemplified american isolation policy since we would be able to help our allies while remaining neutral and not directly being involved in the war by. -
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Mobilization
Adopting policies like Cost-Plus Contracts to encourage businesses to transition to war manufacturing in order to manufacture supplies and vehicles as rapidly as feasible was part of the US mobilization for WWII. -
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Military
While in the beginning, the US attempted in remaining neutral, but eventually, they were forced into joining the war and eventually won it due to the strategies and resources the nation had. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a United States naval station near Honolulu, Hawaii. It was attacked by Japanese forces and eventually led to the United States officially entering the war and end their neutrality. -
Revenue Act of 1942
During the war, the government spent a great deal of money in order to guide the nation to victory. As an early attempt to generate much-needed cash for the war, Congress approved the Revenue Act of 1861. This legislation imposed the first income tax on inhabitants of the United States. Individuals with yearly incomes of more than $800 per year were subject to a 3% income tax. -
Executive Order 9066
President Franklin created this order that allowed the evacuation from the West Coast of any people deemed a threat to national security to relocation sites farther north. This was not a fair act as families were forcibly relocated from their homes and businesses to camps inland, sometimes thousands of miles away despite being full American citizens. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is a World War II cultural figure who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards, After this patriotic figure was made by the government women made up around 36% of the labor force. Unfortunately, they faced discrimination, sexual harassment, and inequitable pay despite working just as hard as the men. The working women temporarily dropped when the war ended but rebounded steadily for the rest of the 40s. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping was a World War II military strategy used by the Allies against the l Japanese in the Pacific. The United States' "island-hopping" plan focused on capturing and equipping important islands with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland while hopping around the heavily fortified islands, cutting off supply streams and causing them to vanish. -
D-Day
The Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France launched an attack on German forces off the coast of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The Allies assaulted with a massive force of about 150,000 men and won a victory that was a turning point in World War II. -
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
The serviceman readjustment act was enacted to avoid the risk of postwar depression caused by widespread unemployment. It offered to fund a college education, unemployment insurance, and housing for World War II veterans. It made higher education accessible to millions of veterans of WWII and subsequent wars. -
Japanese Control of China and Asia.
Throughout their control throughout most of Asia, the Japanese were violent. The Japanese captured Nanjing, China's capital, in 1937, and retreated from Manila, the Philippines' capital, in 1945. Thousands of people were slaughtered by Japanese forces in both situations. -
The Manhattan Project
During World War II, the Manhattan Project was the code name for an American-led endeavor to produce a workable atomic bomb. The first atomic bomb was exploded in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, as part of the United States government's Manhattan Project. On August 6 and 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 210,000 people, in hopes to force them to surrender.