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Neutrality Act of 1935
The 1935 act banned munitions exports to belligerents and restricted American travel on belligerent ships. -
Neutrality Act of 1936
The 1936 act banned loans to belligerents. -
Neutrality Act of 1937
The 1937 act extended these provisions to civil wars and gave the president discretionary authority to restrict nonmunitions sales to a “cash‐and‐carry” basis (belligerents had to pay in advance then export goods in their own ships). (These bills were signed and publicly applauded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, although he complained privately that they limited presidential authority.) -
Neutrality Act of 1939
The 1939 act, passed with President Roosevelt's active support in November under the shadow of the European war, banned U.S. ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports but allowed the United States to sell munitions, although on a “cash‐and‐carry” basis. -
War Production Board
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Cash and Carry Plan
This 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. The revision allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation. However, the sale of war materials was not allowed. -
The America First Committee
The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost United States isolationist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Started on September 4, 1940, it was dissolved on December 10, 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor had brought the war to America. -
Selective Training and Service Act
Burke-Wadsworth Act. The first peacetime conscription in United States history. Men who had reached their 21st birthday but had not yet reached their 36th birthday register with local draft boards. -
Roosevelt's "Arsenal of Democracy" Speech
Slogan used by U.S. President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast. -
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March on Washington Movement
Pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans. -
Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech
It's goals articulated by Roosevelt. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom from want. Freedom from fear. -
FEPC
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. -
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. -
Atlantic Charter
A joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill which provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Office of Price Administration
It was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory -
U.S. enters WWII
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Manhattan Project
This is a research and development undertaking during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons. Lead by U.S. with support from UK and Canada. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
African-American civil rights organization in the U.S. that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP. -
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. -
Bracero Program
Series of laws and diplomatic agreements when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. -
Zoot 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,[6] and prohibited unions from making contributions in federal elections. -
What the Negro Wants
In 1944, Logan gathered together essays by fifteen prominent black intellectuals -- Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois and Roy Wilkins among them. The outspoken views expressed in the essays that make up What the Negro Wants helped to set the agenda for the Civil Rights Movement. -
Korematsu v. United States
Supreme Court caseconcerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. -
An American Dilemma- The American Creed
Study of race relations. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American, he could offer a more unbiased opinion. The book detailed what he saw as obstacles to full participation in American society that American Negroes faced as of the 1940s. -
GI Bill of Rights
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans -
Bretton Woods Conference
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. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.