history vocab ch20 ls3+4

neutrality acts

laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war

Axis power

Germany, Italy, Japan

selective training and service act

first peacetime military draft under which 16 million men between the ages of 21 and 35 were registered

lend- lease act

law that allowed lending or leasing arms to any nation “whose defense was vital to the United States”

atlantic charter

british and American statement of war goals

Allies

groups of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers

George Marshall

army chief of staff during WWII

Women’s Auxilliary army corps (WAAC)

women volunteers who served in noncombat positions

office of price administration (OPA)

agency of the federal government that fought inflation

War production board (WPB)

government agency that decided which companies would make war materials and how to distribute raw materials

rationing

restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

Manhattan project

secret research project that resulted in the atomic bomb

A. Philip Randolph

important African American labor leader

James Farmer

civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

interracial organization formed to fight discrimination

internment

confinement under guard, especially during wartime

Japanese American Citizens league (JACL)

civil rights group formed by Japanese Americans