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Washington Naval Conference

International conference (1921-22) aimed at reducing naval armaments and establishing security in the Pacific

Kellogg-Briand Pact

International agreement (1928) attempting to outlaw war

Good Neighbor Policy

FDR's efforts to enhance U.S. relations with Latin America

Neutrality Acts

Laws in the mid-1930s to maintain U.S. peace by prohibiting loans, trade, and travel to warring countries

"Four Freedoms"

Principles by FDR to advocate increased U.S. support for countries in WWII

Lend-Lease Act

1941 law permitting countries at war to rent or borrow U.S. war supplies

Atlantic Charter

Statement by FDR & Churchill outlining postwar security principles

D-Day

Allied invasion of western Europe (Normandy, France) during WWII

Battle of the Bulge

Last major German offensive in WWII; Bastogne 1944

Pearl Harbor

U.S. naval base in HI attacked by Japan in Dec. 1941, leading to U.S. entry into WWII

Island hopping

U.S. Pacific strategy of taking strategic locations and bypassing others

Midway

U.S.'s first decisive victory over Japan in WWII; Pacific turning point

Leyte Gulf

Battle where U.S. recaptured the Philippines from Japan; largest naval battle in history

Iwo Jima

Key island taken by the U.S. as a prelude to invading Japan; intense combat

Manhattan Project

Secret effort to develop the atomic bomb during WWII

Hiroshima

City where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb in warfare, leading to Japan's surrender

War Production Board

U.S. govt. agency mobilizing factories for WWII

Rosie the Riveter

Fictional character in WWII propaganda encouraging women to work outside the home

Korematsu v United States

Supreme Court case upholding the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

United Nations

Post-WWII international peacekeeping assembly

Yalta Conference

Meeting of the Big 3 discussing postwar Europe and a new international peacekeeping assembly