WWI History Vocab

Neutrality Acts

4 laws passed in the late 1930s that were meant to keep the US out of international incidents

Nye Committee

investigated arms manufacturers and bankers of World War I.

America First Committee

Group formed by isolationists to block further aid to Britain

Manhattan Project

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

Lend Lease Act

The laws passed by the U.S. allowing us to give aid to our Allies in early WWII

Atlantic Charter

British and American statement of goals for fighting World War II

War Production Board

Converted factories from civilian to military production

Tuskegee Airmen

famous segregated unit of African-American pilots

Bracero program

Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms

Navajo Code Talkers

sent messages in their native language in the Pacific front

Korematsu v. US

1944 Supreme Court case over the relocation of Japanese Americans.

Casablanca Conference

A wartime conference held at Casablanca, Morocco. The allies demanded the unconditional surrender of the axis.

General Dwight Eisenhower

Led the allied invasion of Africa and executed the D-Day invasion

D-Day

Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

WWII battle in which German forces launched a final counterattack in the west

Yalta Conference

1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

Battle of Midway

a turning point in the war in the Pacific

Island hopping

A military strategy to attack specific enemy-held islands

Rosie Renfrom

encourage women to work for the war

Iron Curtain

a "curtain" split between the democratic nations and communist nations

Containment Policy

US policy to stop expansion of Soviet Union and Communism

George Kennan

American diplomat who focused on communism in the U.S.

Truman Doctrine

1947 - Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism.

Marshall Plan

U.S. program for the reconstruction of Europe

Berlin Air Lift

tactic used to overcome a Soviet blockade

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

National Security Act, 1947

Established the CIA

Servicemen's Readjustment Act, 1944

Bill to provide World War II veterans with funds

Dixiecrats

southern Democrats who opposed Truman's position on civil rights

NSC-68

National Security Council memo US "strive for victory"

Korean War

The war between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea

HUAC

House Un-American Activities Committee

HollyWood Ten

group of movie writers, directors, and producers who refused to answer HUAC questions about communist ties

Joseph McCarthy

U.S politician who accused many citizens of being Communists