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 WWII (before we formal got into the 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 the stuff themselves.

Question 4

destroyer-for-bases policy

Answer 4

The U.S. gave Great Britain old warships in exchange for the right to establish military bases in Newfoundland & the Caribbean

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 & U.S. plan for post-WWII world

Question 7

Declaration of the United Nations

Answer 7

Alliance agreement between the U.S., Great Britain, USSR, & China, et al. in WW2

Question 8

Mobilization

Answer 8

getting things ready. the U.S. had a huge plan for mobilization for WWII

Question 9

Rationing

Answer 9

limiting how much of something people can have

Question 10

Bonds

Answer 10

Loans to the Government

Question 11

Scrap Drives

Answer 11

The Govt. paid Americans for scrap

metal to use the materials for WWII.

Question 12

Victory Gardens

Answer 12

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

Question 13

No-Strike Pledges

Answer 13

Labor Unions agreed not to strike during WWII to keep production up.

Question 14

Japanese Internment

Answer 14

100,000 Japanese-Americans were put into prison camps during WWII

Question 15

Atomic Bomb

Answer 15

most powerful kind of weapon splits atoms to create a huge blast, created during WWII

Question 16

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer 16

Japanese cities where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs

Question 17

Embargo

Answer 17

Ban on trade with a particular country