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40 Cards in this Set
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Kellog-Briand Treaty
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Treaty to say that the US cannot enter war
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Washington Conference
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the first strategic meeting between the heads of government of the United Kingdom and the United States after the United States entered World War II.
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Adolf Hitler
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german dictator, starts war on imperialism
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Nye Committee
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a committee in the United States Senate which studied the causes of United States' involvement in World War I. The findings gave momentum to the non-interventionist movement and sparked the passage of a series of legislative acts called the Neutrality Acts. The acts were the: Neutrality Act of 1935, Neutrality Act of 1936, Neutrality Acts of 1937, and the Neutrality Act of 1939.
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America First Committee
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no-war group. traveled petitioning peace for WWII
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War Production Board
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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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prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry
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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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the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Overlord and Operation Neptune, during World War II.
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Manhattan Project
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NUKE!
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Los Alamos
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in New Mexico, a remote laboratory where they succesfully tested the first atom bomb
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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bombed in revenge for Pearl Harbor with the atom bomb
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Chaing Kai Shek
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kept the Japanese from conquering them by retreating into the vast interior of the country
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HIdeki Tojo
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General, army militant. after one diplomatic effort failed he became the new premier of Japan
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Charles de Gaulle
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general, put hte free french government in exile
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Joseph Stalin
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head of the soviet union, made non aggression pact
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A Philip Randolph
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black labor leader, threatened a massive march on Washing to force FDR to end racial discriminationin defense industires and government employment and to integrate the armed forces
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Henry Stimson
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secretary of state, reccomended to drop the bomb on a Japanese city
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Cordell Hull
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in 1933, secretary of state. signed a conditional pledge of noninterventionat the Pan-American Conference. sent a stiff ten point reply to Tokyo that included a demand for Japanese withdrawl from China, they replyed the next morning after bombing pearl harbor. won a Russian agreement to participate in a future world organization at the war's end
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Veterans of Future Wars
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formed by princeton undergraduates, demand a bonus of $1000 apiece before they marched off to a foreign war
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Sudetenland
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Czechoslovakia province with large German population. given to Hitler in his demand for land
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Nazi- Soviet Pact
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non aggression treaty between Germany and Russia. enabled Germany to avoid a two front war and the two countries split Poland
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Cash and Carry/ Lend- Lease Act
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Congress approved this program to lend and lease goods and weapons to countries fighting against the aggressors. FDR argued that aiding Britain would help Americas self defenses
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Mother's Crusade
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group that prayed in protest of the passage of the Lend- Lease Act
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Reuben James
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U boat the Germans sank killing more than 100 American sailor
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Tripartite Pact
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between Japan Italy and Germany. a defensive treaty that confronted the United states with a possible two ocean war
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Axis Powers
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alliance between Italy Germany and Japan, fought against allied powers. known as teh Rome Berlin Tokyo axis
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Pearl Harbor
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Japanese war planes attacked US naval forces at Pearl Harbor Hawaii sinking several ships and killing more than 2400 american sailors, marked the US entry to WWII
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Winston Churchill
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British Prime Minister during WWII, compromised and fought with the US
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Soviet Unions red army broke the back of the German military power. never again would Germany take the offensive in Europe
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North African Campaign
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British attack in North Africa that they won. they drove Germany from Africa leaving behind nearly 300000 troops
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Charles Nimitz
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admiral of Hawaii was directed at key Japanese islands in the Central Pacific and would come together with DOuglas MacArthur for the final invasion of the Japanses Hom islands
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Office of Price Administration
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designed to control prices and rents after the outbreak of war
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Executive Order 9066
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army order in February 1942 to move all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to concentration camps in the interior, they were forced to sell their farms and businesses
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Nisei
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native born americans who had Japanese ancestry
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Atlantic Charter
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agreement between US and GB that established a vision of post WWII even though the US hadn't entered the war yet
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Big Three Conference
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brought together Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran Iran in late 1943. Russia committed to participate in a future world organization at the wars end and that they would enter the war against Japan once Germany was defeated
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Battle of the Buldge
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Hitler delayed Eisenhower's advance into Germany but he also had fatally weakened German resistance in the west
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Manchuria
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industrial region of northeast china. taken over by Japan after WWI , opposed by the US and open door policy
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USS Missouri
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boat that Japan signed a formal capitulation agreemnt in Tokyo Bay to bring WWII to an official close
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