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20th Amendment
Stated that the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. -
First Election of FDR
Establishments in this term include: The first and second New Deal and the Good Neighbor Policy. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Second Election of FDR
FDR won his second election on a landslide. Establishments in his second term include: the involvement/creation of the Allied powers and the U.S involvement in the war. -
Plan Orange
One of the many "color" plans developed during the prewar years. Orange covered emergencies in which the U.S and Japan would be involved. It was cut into 3 phase. However the plan basically became defunct in 1940. -
Allies
Allied Powers in Action
The Allies consisted of the U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. The major leaders (also known as the Big 3) were Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. -
Cash and Carry
Policy that replaced the Neutrality Act of 1936. It allowed the sale of material to countries, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport and paid immediately in cash. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen
The popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. The first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. Still subject to the Jim Crow laws. -
Axis Powers
Axis Powers in Action
The Axis Powers consisted of Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. The majors leaders were Adolf Hitler, Fumimaro Konoe and Benito Mussolini. -
Third Election of FDR
By his third election people were begging for FDR to be in office. Establishments in his third term include: Perarl Harbor which advanced the U.S entry in the war, Internment of Germans, Japanese and Italians and war strategies that include island hopping and occupying countries in Africa. -
Land Lease Act
A program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Free France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945. The U.s supplied a total of $50.1 billion dollars worth of materials.The U.s enabled GB to keep fighting in the war by not making them pay for the supplied materials due to the Neutrality Act of 1939. -
A. Phillip Randolph's planned March on Washington/ FDR's Response
Led the March on Washington Movement. Convinced FDR to issue the Executive Order 8802 which banned discriminationin the defense industries during World War II. -
War Propoganda
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Atlantic Charter
Charter that defined the allies goals in the war.Drafted by U.S leaders and GB leaders. -
Pearl Harbor
PEarl HarborA surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. More than 2000 American soldiers died and 1000 were injured. 20 naval vessels were destroyed, 8 battleships. -
Congressional Vote/ Declaration of War
Jeanette Rankin cast the sole vote in congress pushing that we not enter the war. -
Executive ORder 9066
Authorized the Secreatary of War to prescribe designated war zones. Reaction to the Niihau Incident. Aided in the relocation fo Japanese Americans. -
Role of Women in the War
350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces, both at home and abroad. The female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. -
Rationing
The government introduced rationing because certain things were in short supply during the war, and rationing was the only way to make sure everyone got their fair share.War ration books and tokens were issued to each American family, dictating how much gasoline, tires, sugar, meat, silk, shoes, nylon and other items any one person could buy. -
War Propoganda
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Navajo Code Talkers
An idea formed by Philip Johnston, a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles. He suggested that using Navajo codes was faster and more efficient. The Navajo code was formally developed and modeled on the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet that uses agreed-upon English words to represent letters. Navojo Code Talkers were used in the Battle of Iwo Jima sending over 800 messages without error. -
General Dwight D. Eisenhowe
34th president of the U.S and five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. He served as the commander for the allied forces and had the responsibility of leading invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. -
Battle of Midway
The defeat of Japan by the U.sS 6 months after Pearl Harbor. The battle was won thanks to advances in code breaking; it was one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Battle of Guadacanal
First major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. U.S launched a surprise attack on Japanese troops on Soloman Island. The most significant loss for the Japanese was the decimation of their elite group of naval aviators. -
Manhattan Project
Research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.It was named Manhattan project due to the location (Manhattan). 5000 people knew only enough about the project to get their job done. Los Alamos, NM was were the first bomb was tested. -
War Propoganda
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War Propoganda
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Operation Overlord
Allied invasion of invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II led by General Dwight Eisenhower. Allied victory; German forces retreated across the Seine. -
D-Day
Allied troops landed on the French coastline to fight Nazi Germand on Normandy beach. Resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II, Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought near the Philippine islands of Leyte, Samar and Luzon. It was a battle between the combined forces of the U.S and Australia against the imperial Japanese Navy. Allied victory; Japanese military naval capabilities are crippled. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Operation Detachment
Battle in hich U.S armed forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. The capture of Iwo Jima would provide an emergency landing strip for crippled B-29s returning from bombing runs and would allow for sea and air blockades. -
Firebombing of Tokyo
Conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital were incinerated, and between 80,000 and 130,000 Japanese civilians were killed in the worst single firestorm in recorded history. General Curtis Lemay is credited with designing and implementing the effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign. -
Fourth Election of FDR/ Death of FDR
In his fourth and final term FDR's health began to decline and he ultimately died to polio. -
Battle of Okinawa
The largest and last amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II lasting 82 days. Allied victory; Okinawa occupied by the United States until 1972. However both sides saw to huge casualties and many deaths including both of their generals. -
Truman Becomes President
Became president following the death of FDR. Concluded WW2 in his presidency. -
VE-Day/ Fall of Berlin
The destruction of Hitler's Third Reich was brought on by the forces of Stalin and the Allied armies. The formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Also marked the end of the war. -
J. Robert Openheimer
Father of the atomic bomb. -
Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The pilot was Paul Tibbet, also know as the mother of the pilot. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city an killed 800,000. This and it's sister bomb in Nagasaki ended the war. -
Nagasaki
Three days afte Hiroshima another B-29 dropped a bomb on the city of Nagasaki. About 40,000 people died and Japan surrendered days later. -
V-J Day
The day Japan finally surrened to the U.S. -
General Douglas MacArthur
American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II and oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War. During World War II, he famously returned to liberate the Philippines in 1944 after it had fallen to the Japanese. He was removed from command when he clashed with president Truman over war policy. -
Nuremberg Trials
Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. the Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity. -
22nd Amendment
States that an official may not be elected into office twice.
