| A | B |
|---|
| 1934 Reciprocral Trade Agreement | Increased US foreign trade as it lowered tariffs |
| Isolationsim | American foreign policy through most of the 1930's |
| Spanish Civil War | America stayed neutral and Spain became a fascist dictatorship |
| Quarantine Speech | Given by FDR. He outlined why the US should quarantine rising fascist governments BUT isolationists were not pleased and he backed down. |
| Munich Conference | September 1938. England, France, and other nations consented to allow Germany to take the Sudeteland from Czechoslovakia. |
| Non-Aggression Pact | Agreement between Germany and Russia that resulted in the invasion of Poland and the start of WWII |
| Conscription | The draft. First instituted after the dramatic fall of France to Germany. |
| American neutrality | To not take sided. US neutrality ends with the Fall of France and then the US lend lease program, cash and carry, etc. . |
| Pearl Harbor | Induces a declaration of war from the US against Japan then Germany and Italy. |
| Destroyer Deal | US gives Britain 50 old destroyers in exchange for 8 naval bases around the world. |
| Lend Lease | US loans money to cash strapped England and later to invaded Russia. |
| Two Front War | War in Europe and the Pacific. |
| Pacific War Front | Placed on the back burner until the war in Europe was going well. |
| Black Migration | African American workers leaving the South due to the cotton picker and finding jobs in the northern cities. |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | First naval battle in history in which all the fighting was done by carrier based aircraft. |
| Battle of Midway | The turning point in the war for the Pacific as Japan began losing ground. |
| Island Hopping | US strategy of only taking back strategically held Japanese islands and bypassing Japanese strongholds. |
| Tehran Conference | Plans were made to open a second front in Europe. |
| Normandy Invasion | D-Day. Led by General Dwight Eisenhower. Costly in lives but successful in reclaiming France from Germany. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last effort by Hitler to achieve victory agaisnt the US and Britain. Hitler lost. |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | Effectively ended Japan's naval power. |
| Potsdam Conference | Warned Japan that they either surrender or be destroyed. |
| Manhattan Project | 2 billion dollars spent by the US to develop the world's first nuclear power then used the knowledge to create the first atomic bombs. |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | The two Japanese cities where nuclear bombs were dropped instead of a massive land invasion of Japan by the US. |
| Internment Camps | Found mostly on the West coast, these camps housed Japanese Americans ostenibly for their safety but really because the military viewed them as a threat. |
| war machine | Term signifying the great change whereby the US economy went from being depressed to producing war materials at massive outputs. |
| Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator. |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler's book that describes how Germany will rise to power again. In English, the title means "My Struggle." |
| Neutrality Acts | Occurred in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939. They all intended to keep the US out of war but slowly the acts showed a pattern of intervention. |
| cash and carry | US policy of allowing warring nations to purchase US munitions and supplies, even Germany. BUT England and France made sure German ships did not make it through. |
