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Isolationism

Avoidance of involvement in foreign affairs

What did the Neutrality Acts do?

Made the sending of arms, ammunition, or any tools of war to “warning states” unlawful

Mobilization

The action of a country or its government preparing and organizing the military for active service

What were signs of America mobilization?

Willys-Overload (Jeep): built Jeeps's, aircraft parts, munitions, and women worked there!

GM Powertain : American propeller, co.-made aircraft \n Libbey Owens Ford: tempered glass for high altitude, bomber aircraft. \n Toledo Tank Depot: armored vehicles \n Ross Ford Ordinance Depot: specialized in replacement, parts for vehicles, only integrated factory in the factory.

Under what programs did women enlist in the armed services during WWII?

Women's Army Crops (WAC) - women were full-fledged members of the U.S. Army and served all over the World.

Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES): the navy enlisted 10,000 women in this program to do clerical work.

Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASPS): 1,000 women delivered and testified aircraft.

American’s personal sacrifices/contributions charge of propaganda

Overcome food shortages from victory gardens, limited amount of certain product by rationing, scraped material gathered by community from scrap drives, and a loan to the government from war bonds.

The Office of War Information (OWI)

Responsible for creating and spreading propaganda.

What did the Office of Price Administration (OPA) do?

Pleaded limits on the prices businesses could charge for products and materials during the War (ran the rationing program).

What did the Production Board do?

Ensured the military got the resources it needed to fight and ran the scrap drives.

Internment

Forced relocation and confinement to camps.

What did Executive Order 9066 do?

This order specifically targeted people of Japanese descent, in the Western U.S. and established “Military Zones” where groups of people could be forced to move.

Propaganda

Use of media to spread ideas and Information to promote a certain cause.

Fear

The propagandist warns that something horrible will happen to the group or person if they don’t follow a specific course of action.

Bandwagon

Everyone is doing it and so should you. No one wants to be left out or ignored so people will join or agree when they believe “everyone” is doing it.

What was Lend-Lease

The United States was “lending” tools of war to the Allies.

How did Roosevelt get Lend-Lease passed with an isolationist public and Congress?

On December 29th, 1940, President Roosevelt delivered a Fireside Chant titled "On the 'Arsenal of Democracy". In this speech he builds his case for U.S. support of Lend-Lease and more involvement in WWII.

What happened at Pearl Harbor and what was America’s reaction?

At Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers in planes bombed America’s naval base in Hawaii. This made America join the war. America predicted that Japan would attack a U.S. naval base in the Philippines while, Japan’s new prime minister, Hideki Tojo, had allied with Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy.

Red Tails

Deployed in Italy and completed a total of 15,500 missions in all black regiment of pilots.

What was the Double V Campaign?

This campaign was led by James G. Thompson marketing newspaper campaigns that reminded Americans that were fighting fascism overseas and that we needed to fight racism at home.

What was the Bracero Program?

This program demanded for farm labor that rose during the war in order to allow Mexican temporary work visas.

Testimonial

The recommendation of endorsement of something by a person whose opinion is valued (or who is famous)

Transfer

When the propagandist transfers the importance, power, or approval of something we respect and accept to something else they wish us to accept and respect.

Euphemism

This is used when propagandists make something awful or negative more palatable.

Glittering Generalities

Propagandists will use words like; good, democracy, religious, motherhood (etc.) to get people to chose a side or fight.

What was the Allies strategy in the Pacific Theatre?

The U.S. used a strategy known as Island Hopping by claiming territory in the Pacific to establish military bases to provide aid to Allied Powers as they moved closer to Japan.

How did the Navajo Code Talkers impact the war?

They gave the Allies an advantage in the Pacific by the Navajo language being an unwritten language in the 1940s. Therefore the language couldn’t be studied.

What was the turning point battle in the European Theater?

The Battle of the Bulge. This battle finally sealed Hitler’s defeat.

What was the turning point battle in the Pacific Theater?

Battle of Midway, this battle gave America an upper head over Japan.

What was Operation Overload?

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plan to invade France leading D-Day.

What prevented Jewish immigrants from seeking asylum in the U.S.?

Immigration quotas.

How did the atomic bomb change the nature of war, after the balance of power, and start of the nuclear age?

By the U.S. emerging as a global superpower in military strength, nuclear weapons, economically stable, politically stable, and technologically.