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Term/Vocabulary
Word
Lend Lease Act of
1941
Japanese Internment
Island Hopping
Propaganda
Pearl Harbor
Textbook/Dictionary Definition
The president would lend or lease arms
and other supplies to “any country whose
defense was vital to the United States.”
President Roosevelt signed an order
requiring the removal of people of
Japanese ancestry from California and
parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona
and shipped them to ten hastily
constructed remote “relocation centers,”
euphemisms for prison camps.
Island by island the US won territory back
from the Japanese. With each island,
Allied forces moved closer to Japan.
Focused on islands that were strategic in
location or resources
Information, especially of a biased or
misleading nature, used to promote or
publicize a particular political cause or
point of view
the site of a major U.S. naval base, where
a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by
Japanese carrier-borne aircraft inflicted
heavy damage and brought the U.S. into
World War II.
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Term/Vocabulary
Word
Nisei
Textbook/Dictionary Definition
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A person born in the U.S. whose parents
were immigrants from Japan
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Manhattan Project
The codename for research in the field of
atomic weapons and named after
Columbia University in Manhattan.
Responsible for making sure industry had
the resources to win the war.
War Production Board
Neutrality Act
A policy, enacted by President Woodrow
Wilson in 1913, that stated the United
States had the right deny recognition of
any Latin American government it viewed
as oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to
American interests.
Bracero
a Mexican laborer allowed into the U.S.
for a limited time as a seasonal
agricultural worker.
Issei
a Japanese immigrant to North America