World War 2 APUSH

100

US laws designed to prevent entry into foreign conflicts [Neutrality Acts]

200

Japan 1^st took this part of China in 1931 [Manchuria]

300

This term refers to the US policy of improving relations with Latin America [Good Neighbor Policy]

400

The five power treaty limiting Navy size came out of this meeting in 1921-22 [Washington Conference]

500

Failed attempt by US to help Germany pay its reparations [Dawes Plan]

100

Eight hour orphans were created by women working coupled with a lack of these [day care centers]

200

Effects of World War II on rates of marriage and divorce [both rose]

30

New style of music, based on jazz, made popular during world war II [swing]

400 

US region that benefited the most from US investment in aviation during WWII [West Coast]

500

This organization recruited young women to serve as wholesome companions for servicemen [USO]

100

1^st US combat experience in World War II—a decisive Japanese victory [Pearl Harbor]

200

1944 US/British/Canadian invasion of German occupied France [Battle of Normandy]

300

Turning point of the Pacific War—US navy gained control of the central Pacific [Battle of Midway]

400

Historian Gar Alperovitz argued that the A-Bomb was used not to intimidate Japan, but this country [Soviet Union]

500

1^st US combat against Germany was here—not in German occupied France as Stalin had hoped [North Africa]

100

Franklin Roosevelt’s program to end the Great Depression [New Deal]

200

Artistic and literary movement of African Americans in the 1920s [Harlem Renaissance]

300

American writer of the 1920s, he took delight in making fun of fundamentalists and traditional Americans [H.L. Menkin] 

400

Popular Front organization worked to promote black/white cooperation in the South during the 1930s [Southern Tenant Farmers Union]

500

Organizer of the Share our Wealth program [Huey Long]

100

Key preacher of the Great Awakening [Jonathan Edwards]

200

DD key European theologian behind Puritan ideas [John Calvin]

300

After the stamp act, this set of taxes set off a second crisis in the colonies in 1767-68 [Townshend Acts]

400 

He led an uprising of MA farmers against an uncaring government in 1786 [Shays’ Rebellion]

500

He led an uprising of VA frontiersman against the colonial government in 1676 [Nathaniel Bacon]

200

In the summer of 1940, congress approved this first ever peacetime army expansion [draft]

400

In 1939, Congress amended the Neutrality act to allow weapon sales on this basis [Cash and Carry]

600

In the spring of 1941, the US approved this program to provide low-cost assistance to Britain [Lend-Lease]

800

This US ship was sunk in October 1941 while on “neutrality patrol” in the North Atlantic [USS Reuben James]

1000

Violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the Neutrality Acts, in 1940 President Roosevelt traded these to Britain in exchange for navy bases [100 Destroyers]

200

The most serious racial conflict of the war was the riot here in the summer of 1943, in which 34 were killed. [Detroit]

400

DD This organization, created in 1942, more aggressively challenged segregation and discrimination than the NAACP [Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)]

600

He threatened a massive march on Washington unless blacks were given access to well-paying jobs in defense plants [A. Philip Randolph]

800

The term for the violent confrontation between white and Hispanic youth in the summer of 1943 in Los Angeles [Zoot Suit Riot]

1000

In general, world war II had this effect on the movement to strengthen Native American tribal authority [weakened it]

200

Roosevelt was pressured to choose him as VP candidate in 1944, a more conservative alternative to Henry A. Wallace. [Harry S Truman]

400

DD Republican candidate in the 1944 election [Thomas E. Dewey]

600

Joint US-British statement of war aims, made in the fall of 1941 [Atlantic Charter]

800 

One of two New Deal programs killed by Congress early in World War II [CCC, WPA]

1000

This organization, in charge of controlling inflation, was never popular [Office of Price Administration]

200

He led the America First isolation committee [Charles Lindbergh]

400

He led the movement in the US senate for isolation [Gerald Nye]

600

The Allied invasion of Italy forced him out of power [Mussolini]

800

Roosevelt’s 1940 opponent, decisively defeated, but re-energized the party [Willkie]

1000

one of Britain’s greatest mathematicians since Newton, developed the first programmable computer to break German codes.  He was later imprisoned for being gay.  [Alan Turing]

200

He adopted technology in the Gilded Age to drive down the price of steel production [Carnegie]

400

His lawyers invented the trust [John D. Rockefeller]

600

He wrote the 14^th amendment, and led the Radical Reconstruction [Thaddeus Stevens]

800

Along with Henry Clay, he founded the Whig party [Daniel Webster]

1000

This treaty fixed the US southern boundary, and gave Florida to the US in 1819 [Adams-Onis Treaty]