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Neutral
This was a series of laws that were passed in 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1939 that limited the United States' involvement in World War II.This still allowed aid to Allies that were involved in the war. -
War Production Board
an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. -
"Cash And Carry" Plan
replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936 at a special session of the United States Congress. -
America First Committee
was the foremost United States isolationist pressure group against the American entry into World War II -
Selective Training And Service Act
A law that required men ages 21-36 to put their names down for local draft boards for the military in order to increase the military personnel. -
Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was an agreement that was signed by the Empire of Japan, Nazi Germany, and Italy. The agreement was signed in Berlin. This was the beginning of the Axis Powers. -
Roosevelt's "Arsenal Of Democracy" Speech
In this speech, Roosevelt Addressed the European theater and how the United States would provide aid to the United Kingdom in their attacks on Nazi Germany. -
Randolph's March On Washington
organized by activists as a tool to produce a mass march on Washington, D.C., was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans. -
Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech
A speech that Roosevelt gave that listed the Freedoms that he believes everyone is entitled to no matter where they are from. -
Lend-Lease Act
Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to "any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States." -
FEPC
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which banned “discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.” At the same time, the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) was established to help enforce the order. -
Atlantic Charter
A charter between the British and the United States that made clear there aim for the outcome of the war. -
Office Of Price Administration
established within the Office of Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order. The functions of the OPA were original to control money. -
The United States Enters World War II
After the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress declared War on Japan -
Manhattan Project
research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
Navaho Talkers/Code Used
The name code talkers are strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. -
Japanese Internment Camps
the forced relocation camps in the western interior of the country of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. -
Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States. Thy fought for equality across the board -
Bracero Program
meaning "manual laborer" was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. -
Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by white American servicemen stationed in Southern California against Mexican American youths and other minorities who were residents of the city. -
War Labor Disputes Act
The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase. -
GI Bill Of Rights
a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. -
What The Negro Wants
A series of essays from African-American essays about the daily life of a negro -
An American Dilemma - The American Creed
study of race relations authored by Swedish Nobel-laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American, he could offer a more unbiased opinion. -
Bretton Woods Conference
The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code name the Argonaut Conference, held from February 7 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, ending the war. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations. -
Tehran Conference/Operation Overlord
was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran. Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
