World War 2 APUSH

Neutrality Acts

US laws designed to prevent entry into foreign conflicts.

Manchuria

The region of China that Japan first took in 1931.

Good Neighbor Policy

US policy aimed at improving relations with Latin America.

Washington Conference

The 1921-22 meeting that resulted in the five power treaty limiting Navy size.

Dawes Plan

A failed attempt by the US to help Germany pay its reparations.

day care centers

The lack of these contributed to the creation of eight hour orphans during WWII.

both rose

The effects of WWII on marriage and divorce rates.

swing

A new style of music based on jazz, popular during WWII.

West Coast

The US region that benefited most from aviation investment during WWII.

USO

The organization that recruited young women to serve as companions for servicemen.

Pearl Harbor

The first US combat experience in WWII, resulting in a decisive Japanese victory.

Battle of Normandy

The 1944 invasion of German-occupied France by the US, British, and Canadian forces.

Battle of Midway

The turning point of the Pacific War where the US navy gained control of the central Pacific.

Soviet Union

Historian Gar Alperovitz argued that the A-Bomb was used not to intimidate Japan, but to intimidate this country.

North Africa

The location where the first US combat against Germany occurred, as opposed to German-occupied France.

New Deal

Franklin Roosevelt’s program to end the Great Depression.

Harlem Renaissance

An artistic and literary movement of African Americans in the 1920s.

H.L. Menkin

American writer known for making fun of fundamentalists and traditional Americans in the 1920s.

Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Popular Front organization that promoted black/white cooperation in the South during the 1930s.

Huey Long

Organizer of the Share Our Wealth program.

Jonathan Edwards

Key preacher of the Great Awakening.

John Calvin

Key European theologian behind Puritan ideas.

Townshend Acts

Set of taxes that triggered a second crisis in the colonies after the Stamp Act.

Shays’ Rebellion

Uprising in 1786 led by a Massachusetts farmer against an uncaring government.

Nathaniel Bacon

Leader of the uprising of Virginia frontiersmen against the colonial government in 1676.

draft

The first peacetime army expansion approved by Congress in 1940.

Cash and Carry

Amendment to the Neutrality Act in 1939 allowing weapon sales on this basis.

Lend-Lease

The US program approved in 1941 to provide low-cost assistance to Britain.

USS Reuben James

US ship sunk in October 1941 while on neutrality patrol in the North Atlantic.

100 Destroyers

President Roosevelt traded these to Britain in exchange for navy bases, violating the spirit of the Neutrality Acts.

Detroit

Location of the most serious racial conflict of WWII, with 34 killed in a summer 1943 riot.

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Organization created in 1942 that more aggressively challenged segregation than the NAACP.

A. Philip Randolph

Civil rights leader who threatened a massive march on Washington for black access to jobs.

Zoot Suit Riot

The term for violent confrontations between white and Hispanic youth in Los Angeles in 1943.

weakened it

Effect of WWII on the movement to strengthen Native American tribal authority.

Harry S Truman

Roosevelt's VP candidate in 1944, considered a more conservative alternative to Henry A. Wallace.

Thomas E. Dewey

Republican candidate in the 1944 presidential election.

Atlantic Charter

Joint US-British statement of war aims made in fall 1941.

CCC, WPA

Two New Deal programs killed by Congress early in World War II.

Office of Price Administration

Organization in charge of controlling inflation that was never popular.

Charles Lindbergh

Led the America First isolation committee.

Gerald Nye

Led the movement in the US Senate for isolationism.

Mussolini

The Allied invasion of Italy forced him out of power.

Willkie

Roosevelt’s defeated 1940 opponent who re-energized the party.

Alan Turing

One of Britain’s greatest mathematicians known for developing the first programmable computer.

Carnegie

Adopted technology in the Gilded Age to drive down the price of steel production.

John D. Rockefeller

His lawyers invented the trust.

Thaddeus Stevens

Wrote the 14th Amendment and led Radical Reconstruction efforts.

Daniel Webster

Founded the Whig party along with Henry Clay.

Adams-Onis Treaty

This treaty fixed the US southern boundary and ceded Florida to the US in 1819.