WW2

Question 1

Good Neighbor Policy

Answer 1

plan to reduce U.S. imperialism in Latin America

Question 2

Neutrality Acts

Answer 2

a series of laws passed to try to limit the U.S. involvement in WW2 (before we formally joined war)

Question 3

Cash and Carry Policy

Answer 3

allies could buy non-weapons from the U.S. as long as they paid cash and came and got it themselves

Question 4

Destroyer for Bases Policy

Answer 4

U.S. gave Great Britain old warships in exchange for the right to establish military bases in Newfoundland and the Carribean

Question 5

Lend Lease Policy

Answer 5

the U.S. lent arms to allies when they couldn’t afford to pay for them

Question 6

Atlantic Charter

Answer 6

British and U.S. plan for post WW2

Question 7

Declaration of the United Nations

Answer 7

Alliance agreement between U.S., Great

Britain, USSR, & China

Question 8

Mobilization

Answer 8

to get things ready; U.S. had a huge plan for this

Question 9

Rationing

Answer 9

limiting how much of something someone can have

Question 10

Bonds

Answer 10

loans to the government; a way to put money into savings

Question 11

Scrap Drives

Answer 11

the government paid Americans for scrap metal to use the materials for WW2

Question 12

Victory Gardens

Answer 12

Americans were encouraged to grow their own food during WW2 in order to save resources

Question 13

No Strike Pledges

Answer 13

labor unions agree to not to strike during WW2 to keep production up

Question 14

Japanese Internment

Answer 14

100,000 Japanese Americans were put into camps during WW2

Question 15

Atomic Bomb

Answer 15

most powerful type of weapon; creates a huge blast

Question 16

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer 16

Japanese cities were bombed by the U.S.

Question 17

Embargo

Answer 17

a ban on trading with a certain country