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| a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. The revision allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.[ |
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| any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate |
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| a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad |
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| he day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiate |
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| refers to a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". |
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| a political context, is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to a dictatorial power (or powers) in order to avoid a threatened conflict. |
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| the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. |
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| held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. |
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| the name of four large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. |
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| Nazi Germany's plan during World War II for Jewish people, allegedly resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe |
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| known informally as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. |
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| an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives |
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| a term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. |
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| symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. |
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| an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era |
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| an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. |
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| a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. |
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| a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; pron.: /ˈneɪtoʊ/ nay-toh; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 |
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| an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi,[2][3] he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. |
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| Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 25, 1915[1] – June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) were United States citizens convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war, and executed. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. |
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