Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 12 — Diplomacy and War, 1920-1945

KEY TERMS/IDENTIFICATION

Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.

1. the Washington Conference
2. the Five-Power Treaty, the Nine-Power Treaty, and the Four-Power Treaty
3. the Locarno Pact of 1925 and the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
4. the war debts and reparations issue
5. the Dawes Plan of 1924
6. the Young Plan of 1929
7. the most-favored-nation principle
8. General Anastasio Somoza
9. the occupation of Haiti
10. the Cuban Revolution of 1933
11. the 1936 Pan American Conference in Buenos Aires
12. fascism
13. the Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact
14. the policy of appeasement
15. the Lincoln Battalion
16. the Nazi-Soviet Pact
17. the German invasion of Poland
18. diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union
19. American isolationist sentiment
20. the Nye Committee
21. the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937
22. repeal of the arms embargo (the Neutrality Act of 1939)
23. Japanese seizure of Manchuria
24. the Stimson Doctrine
25. Roosevelt's quarantine speech
26. the fall of France
27. the destroyers-for-bases agreement
28. the Lend-Lease Act
29. the Atlantic Charter
30. Japanese occupation of French Indochina
31. Operation MAGIC
32. Winston Churchill
33. Josef Stalin
34. the second-front controversy
35. the battle for Stalingrad
36. the Teheran Conference
37. the Battle of the Bulge
38. the Bataan Death March
39. the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway
40. the island-hop strategy
41. the Philippines campaign
42. the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
43. kamikaze attacks
44. the bombing of Tokyo
45. the Manhattan Project
46. the War Production Board
47. the no-strike-no-lockout pledge
48. the National War Labor Board
49. the War Labor Disputes (Smith-Connally) Act
50. the War Manpower Commission
51. the Office of Price Administration
52. the Office of War Information
53. the internment of Japanese-Americans
54. the Hirabayashi ruling
55. the Korematsu case
56. the Double V campaign
57. Executive Order No. 8802
58. the Detroit riot of 1943
59. the zoot-suit riot
60. Rosie the Riveter
61. Extended School Services
62. Harry S Truman
63. the presidential election of 1944
64. the Katyn Forest massacre and the Warsaw uprising
65. the Dumbarton Oaks Conference
66. Jewish refugees from the Holocaust
67. the voyage of the St. Louis
68. the War Refugee Board
69. the Yalta Conference
70. the Potsdam Conference

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