Chapter 22 Flashcards

(24 cards)

1
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The US refused to intervene military in the internal affairs of Latin American countries

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Good neighbor policy

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2
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Avoiding getting involved in the war using the neutrality acts

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Isolationism

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Beginning in 1935; banned travel on belligerents’ ships and the scale of arms to countries at war

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Neutrality acts

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4
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Providing Britain and China with military supplies in their fight against Germany and Japan

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“Arsenal of Democracy”

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5
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Authorized military aid so long as countries promised somehow to return it all after the war

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Lend-lease act

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6
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Thousands perished ensuing this to a prisoner-of-war camp, and thousands more died of disease and starvation after they arrived

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Bataan “death march”

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Nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower landed in Normandy in north western France. More than a million troops followed them ashore in the nest few weeks, in the most massive sea-land operation in history

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D-Day

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By 1945, 6 million Jewish men, women, and children had died in Nazi camps

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Holocaust

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The female industrial laborer depicted as muscular and self-reliant in Norman rockwell’s famous magazine cover

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Rosie the riveter

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10
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In 1944, it extended to the millions returning veterans an array of benefits, including unemployment pay, scholarships for further education, low-cost mortgage loans, pensions, and job training, one of the most far-reaching prices of social legislation in American history

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GI bill of rights

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Millions of Americans moved out of urban ethnic neighborhoods and isolated rural enclaves into the army and industrial plants where they came into contact with people of very different backgrounds

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“Patriotic assimilation”

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1942; tens of thousands of contract laborer so crossed into the US to take up jobs as domestic and agricultural workers

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Bracero program

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13
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1943; in which club-wielding sailors and policemen attacked Mexican-American youths wearing flamboyant clothing on the streets of Los Angeles, illustrated the limits of wartime violence

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Zoom suit riots

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14
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Ordered the relocation of all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast

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Executive order 9066

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15
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The Supreme Court denied the appeal of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American citizen who had been arrested for refusing to present himself for interment

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Korematsu v. United States

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16
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Mostly blacks form rural south to the cities of the north and west

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Second great migration

17
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Banned discrimination in defense jobs and established a Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) to monitor compliance

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Executive order 8802

18
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Pittsburgh courier coined the phrase, victory over Germany and Japan, it insisted, must be accompanied by victory over segregation at home

19
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A top secret program in which American scientists developed and atomic bomb during WW2

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Manhattan project

20
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Meeting between Stalin , Truman, and Churchill; established military administration for Germany and agreed to place top Nazi leaders on trial for was crimes

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Yalta conference

21
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45 nations in July 1944 replaced the British pound with the dollar as the main currency for international transactions

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Breton woods conference

22
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Made of a general assembly and a security council , 10 rotating members, 5 constant Britain, China, France, Soviet Union, and US; outlawed force or the threat of force as a means of settling international disputes

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United Nations

23
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Promised that “the final destruction of Nazi tyranny” would be followed by open access to markets, the right of “all peoples” to chose their form of government, and a global extension of the New Deal so that people everywhere would enjoy “improved labor standards, economic advancement and social security.”

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Atlantic charter

24
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Work of art during WW2 painted by Norman Rockwell; images of real people situated in small-town America

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Four freedoms