American & The World

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Kellog-Braind Treaty

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outlawed war

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Washington Conference

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meeting between representatives of 9 nations with interests in the Pacific; November, 1921 and February, 1922

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Adolf Hitler

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German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.

A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919, and became leader of NSDAP in 1921

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Nye Committee

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Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a committee in the United States Senate which studied the causes of United States' involvement in World War I.

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America First Conference

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Promotion of International Trade and Economic Policy

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War Production Board

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order of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States.

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Fair Employment Practices Committee

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The order banned racial discrimination in any defense industry receiving federal contracts by declaring "there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin

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"Zoot Suit" Riots

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series of riots in 1943 during World War II that erupted in Los Angeles, California between European-American sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored

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D-Day

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day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.

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Manhattan Project

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develop the first atomic bomb, before the Germans or the Japanese

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August 9, 1945.

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Chiang Kai Sheik

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the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Chiang attempted to eradicate the Communists. Ultimately, with support from the Soviet Union, the CCP defeated the Nationalists, forcing the Nationalist government to retreat to Taiwan, where martial law was continued while the government still tried to take back mainland China.

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Hideki Tojo

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Some historians hold him responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to America entering World War II. After the end of the war, Tōjō was sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and hanged on 23 December 1948

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Charles deGaulle

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a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II.

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Joseph Stalin

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Stalin entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, followed by the Soviet invasion of Poland, Finland, the Baltics, Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. After Germany violated the pact by invading the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet Union joined the Allies to play an important role in the Axis defeat, at the cost of the largest death toll for any country in the war (mostly due to the mass deaths of civilians in territories occupied by Germany). After the war, Stalin installed subservient communist governments in most countries in Eastern Europe, forming the Eastern bloc, behind what was referred to as an "Iron Curtain" of Soviet rule during the Cold War.

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A philip Randolph

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threatened a massive march on Washington, to fprce Roosevelt to end racial discrimination,

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Henry Stimson

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Secretary of War, wanted to drop a bomb on Japanese to a remote Pacific location.

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Cordell Hull

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Secretary of State, had won Russias agreement to participate in a future worlds organization at the end of the war.

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Veterans of Future Wars

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Princeton undergraduates, who made a pardoy of recent veterans groups, demanding 1000 dollars each if they were to have to march out to war.

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Sudetenland

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Surrendered by the United States in hopes that, Hitler's demands would be finished with it.

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Nazi - Soviet Pact

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supremacy of an Aryan master race and claimed that Germans represent the most pure Aryan nation. They argued that Germany's survival as a modern great nation required it to create a New Order — an empire in Europe that would give the German nation the necessary land mass, resources, and expansion of population needed to be able to economically and militarily compete with other powers

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Cash & Carry

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If transportations could be assumed by the recipients, and they were aware of the risks, they could pay in cash for a transportation by ship.

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'Reuben James"

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a post-World War I four funnelled Clemson-class destroyer, was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in World War II and the first named for Boatswain's Mate Reuben James (c.1776–1838), who distinguished himself fighting in the Barbary Wars.

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Tripartite Pact

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also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. The pact was signed by representatives of Germany (Adolf Hitler), Italy (foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano) and Japan (ambassador Saburo Kurusu).

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Axis Powers

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comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II

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Pearl Harbor

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was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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Winston Churchill

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in accourdance to Roosevelt over many important issues.

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Battle of Stalingrad

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was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943. The battle involved more participants than any other on the Eastern Front, and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest in the history of warfare, with the upper estimates of combined casualties coming to nearly two million

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North African Campaign

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The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers. The Allied war effort was dominated by the British Commonwealth and exiles from German–occupied Europe. The United States entered the war in 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa, on 11 May 1942.

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Charles Nimitz

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He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet ("CinCPac" pronounced "sink-pack"), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.[1] He was the leading U.S. Navy authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939. He served as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1945 until 1947. He was the United States' last surviving Fleet Admiral.

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Office of Price Administration

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The OPA had the power to place ceilings on all prices except agricultural commodities, and to ration scarce supplies of other items, including tires, automobiles, shoes, nylon, sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, coffee, meats and processed foods

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Executive Order 9066

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issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.

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Nisei

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children born to Japanese people in the new country. The Nisei are considered the second generation; and the grandchildren of the Japanese-born immigrants

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Atlantic Charter

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postwar world after World War II, and turned out to be the foundation for many of the international agreements that currently shape the world. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the post-war independence of British and French possessions, and much more are derived from the Atlantic Charter.

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Big Three Conference

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intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe

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Battle of the Bulge

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being the initial incursion the Germans put into the Allies' line of advance, as seen in maps presented in contemporary newspapers.

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Manchria

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under the influence of colonial powers such as Britain which nibbled at Tibet, France at Hainan and Germany at Shandong. Meanwhile the Russia encroached upon Turkestan and Outer Mongolia, having annexed Outer Manchuria.

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USS Missouri

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last battleship built by the United States, and was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan which ended World War II.