Period 7.11-7.15

Question 1

Dawes Plan

Answer 1

Compromise that established a cycle of payments flowing from the US to Germany and from Germany to the Allies. Worked for a while, but after the stock market crash it was abandoned.

Question 2

Fascism

Answer 2

The idea that people should glorify their nation and their race through aggressive shows of force.

Question 3

Neutrality Acts

Answer 3

Series of isolationist bills passed in Congress that forbade arms shipments to warring countries, extensions of loans and credits to them, and intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

Question 4

America First Committee

Answer 4

Group that was alarmed by Roosevelt’s pro-British sentiments at the start of WWII. They hired speakers such as Charles Lindbergh to travel the country and discourage foreign involvement.

Question 5

Four Freedoms

Answer 5

Policy justifying lending money to Britain during WWII by Roosevelt in protecting freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

Question 6

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 6

Proposal by Roosevelt that ended the cash-and-carry requirement of the Neutrality Act. Passed by an increasingly-non-isolationist US populace.

Question 7

Pearl Harbor

Answer 7

Attack by Japan on a naval base in Hawaii due to disagreements over oil. This ultimately pushed the US to war.

Question 8

War Production Board

Answer 8

Established to manage war industries during WWII.

Question 9

Manhattan Project

Answer 9

Top-secret program to produce the world’s first atomic weapons, many European scientists fleeing fascism contributed to the success of this project.

Question 10

Double V

Answer 10

Slogan adopted by civil rights leaders that called for victory over fascism abroad and victory of equality at home.

Question 11

Braceros

Answer 11

Name for Mexican farmworkers who were allowed to forgo standard immigration procedures in order to assist with the harvest.

Question 12

Korematsu v. United States

Answer 12

Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during wartime.

Question 13

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 13

Fictional character used to encourage women to take defense jobs during the war.

Question 14

Executive Order 8802

Question 15

Executive Order 9066

Question 16

Strategic Bombing

Question 17

D-Day

Question 18

Battle of Midway

Question 19

Island Hopping

Question 20

Hiroshima

Question 21

Yalta Conference

Question 22

Potsdam Conference

Question 23

United Nations