WWII vocab

Question 1

Good Neighbor Policy

Answer 1

Plan to reduce US imperialism in Latin America

Question 2

Neutrality Acts

Answer 2

Acts to keep the US out of WWII

Question 3

Cash-and-carry policy

Answer 3

allies could buy nonweapons from the US if they came and got it themselves and paid cash

Question 4

Destroyer-for-Bases policy

Answer 4

US gave the British old warships for bases in Newfoundland and the Carribean

Question 5

Lend-Lease policy

Answer 5

the US would give weapons to allies if they couldn’t afford them

Question 6

Atlantic Charter

Answer 6

US and British plan for post WWII

Question 7

Declaration of the United Nation

Answer 7

alliance between US, Great Britain, USSR, and China, et all. in WWII

Question 8

Mobilizations

Answer 8

getting ready for things

Question 9

Rationing

Answer 9

regulating how much you can have

Question 10

bonds

Answer 10

loans to the government

Question 11

scrap drives

Answer 11

people giving scrap metal to the military

Question 12

Victory Gardens

Answer 12

people were encouraged to grow their own food during the war

Question 13

no-strike pledges

Answer 13

Labor Unions agreed not to strike during WWII

Question 14

Japanese Internment

Answer 14

100,000 Japanese people were put in prison camps during WWII

Question 15

Atomic Bomb

Answer 15

most powerful bomb, splits atoms, created during WWII

Question 16

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer 16

Japanese cities that were destroyed by US atomic bombs

Question 17

Embargo

Answer 17

Ban on trade with a particular country