WWII

Question 1

Appeasement

Answer 1

foreign policy tactic offering concessions to dictators to avoid WWII

Question 2

Neutrality Act

Answer 2

a series of laws by the U.S. to prevent them from entering the war

Question 3

The St. Louis

Answer 3

a German shop full of Jewish refugees to flee Nazi Germany

Question 4

Invasion of Poland

Answer 4

Sept 1st, 1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland and started WWII a couple days later

Question 5

Cash & Carry

Answer 5

policy by the U.S. that allowed the sale of material to ally countries, got rid of the Neutrality Act

Question 6

Lend Lease

Answer 6

stated that the U.S. could allow the borrowing of war supplies by any nation

Question 7

Reuben James

Answer 7

an American ship torpedoed by Nazi Germany

Question 8

Pearl Harbor

Answer 8

a U.S. naval base bombed by Japan in 1941 by surprise

Question 9

War Powers Act

Answer 9

American emergency law signed that increased Presidential power during WWII

Question 10

Executive Order 9066

Answer 10

ordered the removal of enemy aliens and taken to camps

Question 11

Office of Price Administration

Answer 11

a wartime federal government program, it rationed food, cars, etc.

Question 12

War Production Board

Answer 12

agency that developed wartime production of materials for the war

Question 13

Office of War Information

Answer 13

agency made to spread propaganda about the war

Question 14

Bracero Program

Answer 14

a program between the U.S. and Mexico that allowed Mexicans to work in agriculture to help the food supply for the war

Question 15

Double V Campaign

Answer 15

a nationwide effort by African Americans to defeat racism in the U.S.

Question 16

Executive Order 8022

Answer 16

banned discriminatory employment practices

Question 17

Korematsu vs. the U.S.

Answer 17

a Japanese-American refused to leave camp and challenged that it broke the 5th Amendment but the court rules him out