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WORLD WAR 2
some out of topic but most ww2
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History
11th Grade
03/03/2012

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the ... conference exemplified isolationist attitudes of american government and also led to poorer...
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london conference of 1933; poorer international cooperation
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Congress passed the ... Act in 1934, providing for the independence of the Philippines by 1946
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Tydings-McDuffie
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which country did FDR formally recognize ein 1933
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soviet union
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FDR's ... policy led to the end of interventionism in LA
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Good Neighbor policy
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Congress passed the ... Act in 1934. Designed to lower the tariff, it aimed at both relief and recovery.
Definition
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
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Congress passed the ... Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937. U.S. couldn't...
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Neutrality acts; 1. sell weapons to belligerents, 2. board a belligerent ship
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The sinking of the Panay caused what kind of reaction...why?
Definition
nothing; tokyo appologize and u.s. forgaved; led to greater japanese aggression
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On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression treaty with Hitler. The ... meant that Germany could make war on Poland and the Western democracies without fear of retaliation from the Soviet Union.
Definition
Hitler-Stalin pact
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After the fall of France, FDR initiated what that would later help allies in WW2
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sped up armament production
peacetime draft
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At the ... of 1940, the United States agreed to share with its 20 New World neighbors the responsibility of upholding the Monroe Doctrine.
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Havana Conference
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The ... of 1940 gave gave britain 50 ww1 destroyers in return for 8 strategic bases in SA
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destroyer deal of 1940
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Congress passed the...which sent limitless arms to Britain and allies so they could "finish the war" with
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Lend-Lease Bill in 1941
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FDR and churchill met in 1941 and [also] created the
Definition
atlantic charter
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atlantic charter
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-no territorial changes
-right of people to choose own government
-disarmament, world peace
-pending league of nations
Term
Pro-war advocates were called
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Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies
Term
Isolationists formed a group against the war called
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America First Committee
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When had the U.S. supposedly "abandoned neutrality" although they didn't join the war yet?
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When Congress passed the Lend-lease bill
Term
affirmed the constitutionality of internment camps for Japs.
Definition
Korematsu vs U.S.
Term
Shipbuilder ... was dubbed “Sir Launchalot”
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Henry J. Kaiser
Term
Because of shortages of labor, the ... Program brought Mexican workers to America as resident
workers.
Definition
Bracero
Term
Symbol of the women workforce during WW2
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Rosie the Riveter
Term
The "..." South was created after FDR invested money in to the industrialization of it.
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Sunbelt
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What was a major push factor for Blacks to migrate north during WW2?
Definition
the mechanical cotton picker
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After the U.S. army stationed at Philippines surrendered, they were forced on what death march
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85 mile bataan death march
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U.S. tactics in Pacific
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"island hopping"
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At the ..., the Allies issued an ultimatum: surrender or be destroyed to the Japanese.
Definition
Potsdam Conference
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What was America's role, as FDR first claimed, as the supplier of the war?
Definition
Arsenal of Democracy
Term
main scientist in the Manhattan project
Definition
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Term
A phillip Randolp
Definition
threathened to march to washington to demand equal treatment of blacks
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first female cabinet member, appointed by FDR
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Frances Perkins
Term
Radical socialist leader that clamored for communistic ideals
Definition
Huey Long
Term
The Casablanca conference, held in...(date), made what two important decisions?
Definition
1943
*declared unconditional surrender of axis
*planned an invasion into Italy beginning at Sicily instead of France.
Term
The Postdam conference declared that...
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Japan had to surrender unconditionally or be destroyed
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The Yalta conference held in...proposed what? ...had to do with germany..
Definition
germany would be divided into Allie occupational zones
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Bear market means a ... in the stock market while bull market means ...
Definition
decline; rise
Term
turning point of pacific war
Definition
midway
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Germany's last change(failed) to turn the table
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Battle of the Bulge
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eventually, the neutrality act of 1939 did allow the us to aid allies but..
Definition
indirectly; they had to ship the supplies themselves
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At the Munich Conference, the allies ..
Definition
sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler
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The Fair...Practices Commission was designed to
Definition
prevent discrimination of blacks in wartime industries
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