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20th Amendment
Moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. -
FDR Election
FDR was the only president to serve 4 terms. He did not finish his last term because he died. -
21st Amendment
Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Plan Orange
Plan Orange is a series of war plans for dealing with possible war with Japan during the First and Second World Wars. -
Allies
Major countries include Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, US. Major leaders include FDR, Winston Churchill, Joeseph Stalin, and Charles de Gaulle -
Axis Powers
Major countries include Germany, Italy, and Japan. Major leaders weree Hitler, Mussolini -
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Lend Lease Act
The Lend Lease Act was a law allowing the president to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of" weapons and materials to help defend nations vital to U.S. security. -
General Douglas MacArthur
A General who commanded a broad offensive against the Japanese that would move north from Australia, through New Guinea, and eventually to the Philippines. He also insisted the US move into China but was denied by the president. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Worked in military communications and spoke their own language over the radio and the telephones. -
Rationing
Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. There was alot of rationing going on during WWII due to scarce resourses. -
A Philip Randolph's March
Randolph led the March on Washington Movement, which convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 in 1941, banning discrimination in the defense industries during World War II. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of black pilots in the air force during WWII -
Role Women during WWII
Women took over a lot of the jobs that men worked. Women began working in factories and other jobs that they were not allowed to work before the war. -
General Dwight Eisenhower
Led by American general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, an assault on French-held North Africa was launched in November 1942. The invasion was the mightiest waterborne effort up to that time in history famous general of WWII. Appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces on the European Front. -
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Atlantic Charter
A statement between Britain and the U.S. intended as the blueprint for the postwar world after World War II, and turned out to be the foundation for many of the international agreements that currently shape the world. -
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Cash and Carry
Key provisions of the Neutrality act that allowed the United States to sell arms and other contraband as long as nations paid cash and shipped the goods on their own
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor attack was the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941 by the Japanese. 4 battleships sunk, 3 battleships damaged, 1 battleship grounded, 2 other ships sunk, 3 cruisers damaged, 3 destroyers damaged, 3 other ships damaged, 188 aircraft destroyed, 159 aircraft damaged, 2,403 killed
1,178 wounded, 4 midget submarines sunk, 1 midget submarine grounded, 29 aircraft destroyed, 64 killed, 1 captured -
Congressional Vote/ Declaration of War
Cogress declared war on the Axis powers in 1941 because of the Pearl Harbor attack. -
Midway
An enormous battle that raged for four days near the small American outpost at Midway Island, at the end of which the US, despite great losses, was clearly victorious. The American navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and lost only one of its own; the action regained control of the central Pacific for the US. -
Guadalcanal
Where a struggle of terrible ferocity developed and continued for six months, inflicting heavy losses on both sides. In the end, however, the Japanese were forced to abandon the island-and with it their last chance of launching an effective offensive to the south. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Executive Order 9066
United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. -
Leyte Gulf
1944 World War II naval battle betweeen the United States and Japan. Largest naval engagement in history. Japaneze navy was defeated. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving over 156,000 troops crossing the English Channel. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. -
Okinawa
took place on Okinawa, an island only 370 miles south of Japan, and gave evidence of the strength of the Japanese resistance in these last desperate days. Week after week, the Japanese troops on shore launched desperate nighttime attacks on the American lines. The US and its allies suffered nearly 50,000 casualties before finally capturing Okinawa in late June 1945. -
Hiroshima
The US warned Japan that it had weapons of mass destruction. The Japanese were warned to surrender or suffer the consequences. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6,, 1945. 100,00 people died within seconds and thounsands for within the next five days. -
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. -
Nuremberg Trials
A series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
J Robert Oppenheimer
He is among the persons who are often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. -
Firebombing of Tokyo
The US dropped 2,000 tons of bombs on Tokyo and there were 130,000 casualties. -
Truman Becomes president
Vice president Harry Truman becomes president after FDR has a stroke and dies. -
VE-Day
VE- Day marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Nagasaki
Detonation of the "Fat Man" bomb over Nagasaki during World War II against the Empire of Japan, part of the opposing Axis Powers alliance. the prevailing view is that the bombings ended the war months sooner than would otherwise have been the case, saving many lives that would have been lost on both sides if the planned invasion of Japan had taken place. -
22nd Amendment
Sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States.
