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"Flying Fortress" |
Boeing B-17 bomber |
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Dachau |
1st concentration camp |
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Fascism |
strong military dictatorship |
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Appeasement |
English, French, and American policy that allowed Hitler to do whatever in order to avoid war |
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Good Neighbor Policy |
US renounced the use of force in Western Hemisphere |
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Gerald Nye |
claimed that WWI was caused by economic interests of "merchants of death" |
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Neutrality Act |
Embargo on nations at war |
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"merchants of death" |
ppl who profited from WWI, such as munitions makers |
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Lincoln Brigade |
American volunteers in Spanish |
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Munich Conference |
allowed Germany to annex part of Czech if he sought no more territory |
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Lend-Lease |
US could lend, lease, or give arms to countries vital to US security |
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Blitzkrieg |
lightening war, Nazi strategy of rapid attack |
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American First Committee |
isolationist committee including Charles Lindbergh |
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Wendell Willkie |
Republican that ran for pres in 1940 |
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Atlantic Charter |
joint press release b/w FDR and Churchill dealing with war aims |
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Tojo |
prime minister of Japan |
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Election 1940 |
D - FDR, R - Willkie, Democrats win |
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Henry Kaiser |
West coast shipbuilder who used mass production to rapidly produce battleships |
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"Miracle Man" |
aka Henry Kaiser |
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Election 1944 |
D - FDR, R - Dewey, Democrats win |
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Tom Dewey |
fought organized crime as US attorney, ran for R pres in 1944 |
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OPA |
Office of Price Administration, supervised the economy to avoid inflation |
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"Rosie the Riveter" |
Norman Rockwell's women's labor propoganda |
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WPB |
War Production Board |
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GI Bill of Rights |
Searviceman's Readjustment Act, gave benefits to veterans |
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WAC |
Women's Army Corps |
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Ed Murrow |
Radio war comentator |
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WAVES |
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service |
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zoot suit |
gang-affiliated fashion of oversized clothing worn primarily by latino teens |
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WASP |
Women's Airforce Service Pilots |
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Ex Parte Endo |
Policy that US citizens that could prove loyalty could not be detained |
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NWLB |
National War Labor Board |
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Nisei |
American-born Japanese |
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FEPC |
Fair Employment Practice Comission |
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D Day |
June 6, 1944 - Allied attack on German held France |
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CORE |
Congress Of Racial Equality |
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VE Day |
May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe Day |
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OWI |
Office of War Information |
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Auschwitz |
concentration camp |
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James Doolittle |
led bombers on 1st air raid in Tokyo |
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Kamikaze |
suicidal plane and boat crash missions |
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Manhattan Project |
project to develop the attomic bomb |
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Hiroshima |
first target of the atomic bomb |
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Yalta |
resort in Black Sea where Stalin, Churchill, and FDR met |