| A | B |
|---|
| isolationism | belief that the U.S. should avoid alliances with other nations |
| Mexican oil expropriations | incident when Mexico confiscated American oil property |
| Benito Mussolini | facist leader of Italy |
| Panay Incident | Japanese attack on American gunboat in china in 1937 |
| neutrality | the act of remaining out of the conflict |
| cash-and-carry | belligerents could supply other than munitions if they paid beforehand and carried the supplies on their own ships |
| total war | inclusion of civilians in military conflict |
| war conversion | shift of economy to emphasize the needs of the Allied war machine |
| concentration camps | detention and extermination centers tat the Nazis created for the Jews during the war; also the camps the Americans created for the Japanese |
| Nisei | Japanese American citizens |
| GI Bill of Rights | an act that gave GIs the rights they deserved |
| Stimson Doctrine | belief thta nations needed to work together to create a situation of collective security |
| non-recognition | refusal to recognize Japanese conquer of Manchuria |
| Neutrality Acts | 1935 statute that required an impartial embargo of arms to all belligerents in case of war |
| Quarantine Speech | Roosevelt's first foriegn policy speech, which he called for a international quarantine of agressor nations |
| fascism | governmental system with strong central authority that allowd for no criticism or opposition |
| quarantine | Roosevelt's call for a containment of the agressor nations of the Axis powers |
| fisson | splitting of atoms that released the energy of the atom bomb |
| voluntarism | people who gave up their time to the war effort |
| Issei | Japanese nationalists ineligible for citizenship |
| bracero program | program created in conjuntin with the Mexican government to recruit Mexican laborers to California |
| anti-semitism | prejudice against Jews that formed the idological basis of the Nazi regime |
| Lend-Lease Act | Roosevelt's paln to provide arms and supplies to nation whose defense was vital to U.S interest |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister and friend and ally to Roosevelt |
| Munich Conference | a conference in which France and Britian struck a deal with Germany to keep German from taking more land |
| General Douglass MacAruthur | commander of American forces in the Phillipines; forced to leave in 1942 but returned victorious two years later |
| D-Day | June 1944 assualt on Europe designed to drive the Germans out of France |
| "Rosie the Riveter" | one of many nicknames given to women who entered the workforce after the men went to war |
| Zoot Suiters | nickname given to Hispanices in California; a.k.a pachucos. Nickname derived form the style they adopted from the Harlem hipsters |
| George C. Marshall | Secretary of State |
| Henry Morgenthau | Secretary of the Treasuary during World War II; he proposed a progressive tax structure to help pay for the war |
| Leslie Groves | the wartime leader of the Manhattan Project |
| El Almein | site in North Africa at which the Allies defeated German General Rommel |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union and ally to Churchill and Roosevelt during World War II |
| Midway | turning point of the war in the Pacific; proved the importance of American naval air power |
| WACs | Women's Auxillary Corps; orginization of American women in the military |
| Yalta Conference | last meetin of the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) at a conference intended to shape the structure of postwar Europe |
| A. Philip Randolph | leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porter; the leading black labor orginization during the war; who tried to break down discrimatory practice |
| John L. Lewis | head of the United Miner Workers; allowed his unio to go on strike during the war to gian fair treatment for the workers |
| Thomas Dewey | the Republican canidate to run against Roosevelt, the former governor of New York |
