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Tripartite Pact
Also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin. -
Neutrality Acts
The United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality.
First Neutrality Act 1935
Neutrality Act of 1937
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War Production Board
An agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II by President Roosevelt. -
"Cash and Carry" Plan
A policy requested by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress, subsequent to the outbreak of war in Europe. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. -
America First Committee
The foremost United States isolationist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Dissolved on December 10, 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor had brought the war to America. -
Selective Training and Service Act
Required all male citizens between the ages of 26 and 35 to register for the military draft. -
Roosevelt's "Arsenal of Democracy" Speech
President reelect Roosevelt spoke to the people about the American engagement in conflict of declaring war. This speech set off the debate about America's role in the world. -
Navaho Talkers
The name code talkers is 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. Code talking, however, was pioneered by Cherokee and Choctaw Indians during World War I. -
Randolph's March on Washington
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
President Roosevelt proposed goals that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. -
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. -
Atlantic Charter
Defined the Allies goals for the post-war world. No territorial gains were to be sought by the United States or the United Kingdom. -
Office of Price Administration
The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
U.S. Enters WWII
On this day, as America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan. -
Japanese Internment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 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 that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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. -
Zoon Suit Riots
A series of attacks 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 Act allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production and prohibited unions from making contributions in federal elections. -
GI Bill of Rights
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). -
What The Negro Wants
The outspoken views expressed in the essays that make up What the Negro Wants helped to set the agenda for the Civil Rights Movement. -
The American Creed
An American Dilemma- book painstakingly detailed what he saw as obstacles to full participation in American society that American Negroes faced as of the 1940s. -
Tehran Conference
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. -
Bretton Woods Conference
Conference to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
The three leaders present at the conference agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. -
United Nations
An intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.
