WWII

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A political philosophy advocating a national foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs.

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Isolationism

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Between 1935 and 1937 Congress passed these acts that tried to keep the United States out of World War II.

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Neutrality Acts

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This act gave President FDR virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality.

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Lend-Lease Act

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This event on December 7, 1941, President FDR would give his “Day of Infamy” speech which led to a declaration of war on Japan the day after. Options: Island hopping, 9/11 Attacks, Sinking of the USS Maine

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Pearl Harbor attack

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This was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.

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Korematsu v. United States

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This icon represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II.

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Rosie the Riveter

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During WWII, this campaign championed military success against fascism overseas and demanded equality for African Americans in the United States.

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"Double V" campaign

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After WWII, this act provided veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.

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GI Bill of Rights

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A “secret” research and development undertaking led by physicist Robert Oppenheimer during World War II that produced the first weapons of mass destruction.

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Manhattan Project

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A series of international tribunals held following World War II (1945-1946) by the Allied forces against the surviving political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson served as the Chief Prosecutor during the trials.

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Nuremberg Trials