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Good Neighbor Policy
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Which meant the US gave up the use of military force and armed intervention in Latin America.
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Nye Committee
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Gerald P. Nye's Committee, through investigations, concluded that the war profiteers had maneuvered the nation into WWI for financial gain.
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"cash and carry"
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Neutrality Act of 1935 proposed; If a country at war wanted to purchase nonmilitary goods from the US, it had to pay for them in cash and pick them up in its own ships.
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Lend-Lease Act
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In March, 1941, the President was authorized to "lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of" arms and other equipment to any country whose defense was considered vital to the security of the US.
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"Four Freedoms"
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Freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and fear.
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Atlantic Charter
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Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill, in August 1941, to show his support of the Allied cause.
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Pearl Harbor
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In December 7, 1941, Japanese bomber attacked the US, killing more than 2,400 Americans.
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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The newspaper, the Sunday Evening Post, urged women to get an defense industry job with a creation by Norman Rockwell.
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act
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In 1944 the act, also known as the GI Bill of Rights, provided education, job training, medical care, pensions, and mortgage loans for men and women who had served in the armed forces.
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"zoot-suit riots"
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When rumors circulated in July 1943 that a pachuco gang had beaten a white soldier, it set off a four day riot.
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Japanese Interment
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In 1942 the Executive Order gave the War Department the authority to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West Coast and intern them in relocation camps for the rest of the war.
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D-Day
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On June 6, 1944, the largest armada ever assembled moved across the English Channel under the command of General D. Dwight Eisenhower.
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Battle of the Bulge
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In December 1944, Germany mounted a final offensive in Belgium, before being pushed back across the Rhine River into Germany.
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V-E Day.
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In May 8th, 1945, US had victory in Europe.
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Midway
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In June, 1942, the American navy inflicted serious damage on the Japanese fleet.
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