WW2 Flashcards
Good Neighbor
Policy
Plan to reduce U.S. imperialism in Latin
America
• example of U.S. isolationism
Neutrality Acts
• a series of laws passed to try to limit the
U.S. involvement in WWII (before we
formal got into the war).
cash-and-carry policy
allies could buy non-weapons from the U.S.
as long as they paid cash and came and got
the stuff themselves.
destroyer-for-bases policy
U.S. gave Great Britain old war ships in
exchange for the right to establish
military bases in Newfoundland & the
Caribbean
Lend-Lease Policy
The U.S. lent arms to allies when they
couldn’t afford to pay for them
Atlantic Charter
British & U.S. plan for post-wwii world
• similar to the 14 Points
Declaration of the
United Nations
Alliance agreement between U.S., Great
Britain, USSR, & China, et al. in WW2
• basis for modern UN (United Nations)
Mobilization
getting things ready
• the U.S. had a huge plan for mobilization
for WWII
Rationing
limiting how much of something people can have
• butter, sugar, meat, gasoline, etc. were all
rationed during WWII
Bonds
Loans to the Government
• a way to put money into savings
Scrap Drives
The Govt. paid Americans for scrap
metal to use the materials for WWII
Victory Gardens
Americans were encouraged to grow
their own food during WWII in order to
save resources
No-Strike Pledges
Labor Unions agreed not to strike
during WWII to keep production up
Japanese Internment
100,000 Japanese-Americans were put
into prison camps during WWII
Atomic Bomb
- most powerful kind of weapon
- splits atoms to create a huge blast
- created during WWII
