I.D.S 6.0

Washington Naval Conference:
international conference (1921-22) to reduce naval armaments and establish security in the Pacific

Kellogg-Briand Pact:
international agreement (1928) which attempted to outlaw war

Good Neighbor Policy:
name given to FDR’s efforts to improve U.S. relations with Latin America

Neutrality Acts:
series of laws (mid-1930s) aimed to keep the U.S. at peace by outlawing loans, trade, and travel to countries at war

"Four Freedoms:"
set of principles articulated by FDR to urge greater U.S. support to countries fighting in WWII

Lend-Lease Act:
law (1941) passed allowing countries at war to rent or borrow U.S. war supplies

Atlantic Charter:
statement written by FDR & Churchill which listed principles for postwar security

D-Day:
name given to the Allied invasion of western Europe (at Normandy, France) during WWII

Battle of the Bulge:
battle which marked the last major German offensive of WWII; Bastogne 1944

Pearl Harbor:
site of a major U.S. naval base in HI; attacked by Japanese in Dec. 1941, bringing the U.S into WWII

island hopping:
U.S. strategy in Pacific of taking only strategic locations and bypassing others

Midway:
battle which marked the U.S.’s first decisive victory over the Japanese; turning point in Pacific

Leyte Gulf:
battle in which U.S. recaptured Philippines from Japanese; largest naval battle in world history

Iwo Jima:
one of two key islands the U.S. took as last outpost needed to invade Japan; fierce combat there

Manhattan Project:
secret effort to develop the atomic bomb during WWII

Hiroshima:
city on which the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, leading to Japan’s surrender

War Production Board:
govt. agency created to mobilize U.S. factories for WWII

Rosie the Riveter:
fictional character used in WWII propaganda to encourage women to work outside the home

Korematsu v. U.S.:
Supreme Court case which upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII

United Nations:
international peacekeeping assembly created after WWII

Yalta Conference:
meeting of the Big 3 which discussed plans for postwar Europe and a new international peacekeeping assembly