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Isolationism
separating from the European Countries to prevent future wars
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Washington Naval Conference
- In 1921
- Hosted by the US
- focused on naval disarmament and Pacific security
- Organized by Secretary of state Charles Hughes
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Five Power Treaty
- called for a ten year naval holiday during which no battleships or battle cruisers would be built
- signed by Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy
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Four Power Treaty
- a treaty with Great Britian, France, Japan, and the US
- pledging to respect one another's territory in the Pacific Ocean
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Arms Race
countries competing to build up their military faster
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Kellog-Briand Pact
62 nations agreed that they would never make war again
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Neutrality Acts
laws passed in the 1930's to prevent US involvement in another war
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Dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini
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Fascism
political movement characterized by the belief that the country/state is more important than the people and that a nation should have a strong centralized government headed by a dictator
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Communist Dictator of the Soviet Unioin
Joseph Stalin
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Totalitarian state
a government with a dictator with total control of everything
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Nazi Party
Political party created in Germany by Adolf Hitler
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Dictator in Germany
Adolf Hitler
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Antisemetism
hatred of jews
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Nuremberg
instituted by Hitler in 1935 to deprive Jews of their German Citizenship and authorized the destruction of Jews
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Dictator of Spain
Francisco Franco
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Selective Service Act
provided 16.5 million men to the armed forces between the ages of 18 and 45
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Women's Army Corps (WAC)
- headed by Ovetta Hobby
- they worked as nurses, drove vehicles, and ferried planes in order to free men for active duty
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Executive Order 9066
ordered all Japanese Americans away from Army Military Facility in the US
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Nisei
a person who was born in America and had never left America but had Japanese decent so they were hated
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Koremats vs. US
1944 Supreme Court ruled that the relocation of Japanese Americans was constitutional
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Toot-Suit Riots
series of attacks by US sailors against hispanics in Los Angeles
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Rosie the Riveter
symbol of the Patriotic Female Defense Worker
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War Production Board
supervised the conversion of industry from peacetime to wartime production
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Rationing
using less or limiting the number that a person can use
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George Marshal
US Army Chief of Staff
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Dwight Eisenhower
allied commander in Europe
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Stalingrad
turning point in WWII in Europe
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Operation Torch
code name given to the invasion of Northern Africa
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Erwin Rommel
leader of German Troops in North Africa
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D-Day
- June 6,1944
- largest Amphibian assault in US history
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Battle of the Bulge
the last major German offensive movement in December of 1944
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Election of 1944
Roosevelt wins 4th quote
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V-E Day
- May 8,1945
- America Wins War
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Douglas MacArthur
allied commander in the Pacific during World War II
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Battle of Coral Sea
first navy battle with no ship-to-ship contact
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island hopping
WWII strategy in the pacific where you bypass the unimportant island to defeat Japan
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Kamakazes
Japanese suicide planes
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Okinawa
- June 22, 1945
- Japan used 1,900 Kamakazi attack
- 110,000 japanese troops die
- US wins
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Iwo Jima
Island in the Pacific that was critical for US to win
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Manhattan Project
- code name for the building of the atonic bomb
- by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
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August 6, 1945
- the city of Hiroshima the atomic bomb "Little Boy"
- in 43 sec. the city collapsed and 71,000 died instantly
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August 9, 1945
the city Nagasaki the atomic bomb "Fatman" leveled half the city
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V-J Day
victory in Japan, took over Japan unconditionally for five years on September 2, 1945
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Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Allied Powers
Great Britain, France, Russia, and US
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Munich Pact
Sudetanland and Czechoslovakia would be Germany's last territorial gain
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Neville Chamberlain
peacetime Prime Minister of Great Britian
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Appeasement
the policy of giving in the demands of a hostile power to keep peace
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Winston Churchill
wartime Prime Minister of Great Britian
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Nye Committee
investigated why US went to WWI found money as the answer
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Panay Incident
the bombing of a US navy gunboat on the Yangtzee River
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Non-agression Pact
an agreement no to attack each other
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September 1, 1939
WWII began when Germany invaded Poland
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Election of 1940
- FDR- Democrat and won
- Wendell Willkie-Republican
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Land-lease act
law passed in 1941 that allowed the US to offer weapons and supplies to the Allied powers during WWII
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Blitzkrieg
- "lightening war"
- airplanes, tanks, and then men
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Atlantic Charter
- Secret meeting between FDR and Churchill on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland
- agreed that people had the right to choose their own government
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December 7, 1941
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor bringing the US into WWII
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