Unit 8 Vocab Part 1

Question 1

Stimson Doctrine

Answer 1

US wouldn’t recognize territory acquired by force

Question 2

Good Neighbor Policy

Answer 2

FDR, American troops out of foreign nations (esp Latin America)

Question 3

Henry Wallace

Answer 3

ran on New Progressive Party due to disagreement w/ Truman policy, caused Dem party to split even more

Question 4

Neutrality Act of 1935

Answer 4

prohibited arms shipments and US travel on ships of belligerent nations

Question 5

Neutrality Act of 1936

Answer 5

forbade loan and credit extension to belligerent nations

Question 6

Neutrality Act of 1937

Answer 6

arms shipments not used in Spanish Civil War

Question 7

Neutrality Act of 1939

Answer 7

“cash-and-carry” basis for EU dem buying American war materials

Question 8

Lend-Lease Agreement

Answer 8

FDR authorized sale of surplus military equip while still being neutral

Question 9

Executive Order 9066

Answer 9

allowed internment camps to be set up to exclude residents seen as threat

Question 10

Dixiecrats

Answer 10

southern dem who seceded from party in 1948 in opp to its policy of extending civil rights

Question 11

Youngstown Sheet/Tube v. Sawyer

Answer 11

sc decision that limited the power of the President

Question 12

Fair Deal (Truman)

Answer 12

domestic reform policies, included civil rights legislation

Question 13

NSC 86

Answer 13

top secret policy paper, presented to Truman, one of most important American policy statements in the Cold War

Question 14

Munich Agreement (1938)

Answer 14

permitted Nazi Germany’s annexation of certain parts of Czechoslovakia

Question 15

Atlantic Charter

Answer 15

Churchill & FDR, promote democracy and intentions for improvement post WW2

Question 16

Korematsu v US

Answer 16

relocation of Japanese Americans during WW2, raised constitutionality of their internment as a wartime necessity

Question 17

Manhattan Project

Answer 17

developed first nuclear weapons during WW2, led by US w support of Canada and UK

Question 18

War Productions Board

Answer 18

supervised war production during WW2, FDR established it

Question 19

Office of Price Administration

Answer 19

in charge of stabilizing prices and rents during WW2

Question 20

Zoot Suit Riots

Answer 20

series of brutal attacks, aimed toward Mexican-American teens involved in gangs

Question 21

Yalta Conference

Answer 21

Big 3 (FDR, Churchill, Stalin), dealt w/ postwar occupation and partition of Germany

Question 22

Potsdam Conference

Answer 22

Big 3, negotiated terms for WW2 compromise

Question 23

FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech

Answer 23

speech in which FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms for people
freedom of speech, worship and freedom from want, fear

Question 24

United Nations

Answer 24

replaced the League of Nations, new international peacekeeping organization, US joined which signaled end of isolationism

Question 25

NATO

Answer 25

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

- defended dem nations of Western EU by using “collective security”

Question 26

Warsaw Pact

Answer 26

communist alliance that the USSR led against NATO

Question 27

Truman Doctrine

Answer 27

speech about military and economic aid to nations “at risk” of falling

Question 28

“containment”/ George Kennan

Answer 28

official US policy toward communism, idea that US must prevent spread of communism

Question 29

Marshall Plan

Answer 29

American initiative to aid Western Europe

Question 30

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 30

American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union, they were later executed

Question 31

U-2 incident

Answer 31

spy plan caught over the Soviet Union, embarrassed the US

Question 32

Alger Hiss

Answer 32

American gov official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948

Question 33

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 33

played major role in developing atomic bomb but spoke out against its use and was labeled as a security risk