World War ll - P7

Question 1

Fascism

Answer 1

authoritarian government with a dictatorial rule; extreme nationalism/racism

Question 2

Four Freedoms Speech

Answer 2

Speech, Religion, Want, Fear (used to justify a loan for Britain and that these freedoms would be ensured)

Question 3

Lend Lease Act

Answer 3

allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the US

Question 4

Atlantic Charter

Answer 4

pledge signed by the US and Britain not to acquire new territory as a result of WWll and to work for peace after the war

Question 5

War Production Board (WPB)

Answer 5

contracts to private businesses to produce/build for the war

Question 6

Double V Campaign

Answer 6

victory against war abroad & discrimination at home

Question 7

W.E.B. Dubois

Answer 7

prominent civil rights advocate for desegregation

Question 8

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)

Answer 8

GI Bill of Rights; education, job training, medical care, pensions & home loans

Question 9

Rome-Berlin Axis

Answer 9

the alliance between Italy and Germany

Question 10

Neutrality Act of 1935

Answer 10

allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the US if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships

Question 11

Executive Order 8802

Answer 11

prohibited discriminatory employment practices by fed agencies and all unions engaged in war related work

Question 12

executive order 9066

Answer 12

FDR’s order to place all Japanese Americans in Internment Camps

Question 13

Manhattan Project

Answer 13

code name for the US project to develop atomic bombs for use in WWll