FINAL EXAM KEY TERMS (AMH
2020) LATEST EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Four Freedoms
Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom
from fear, as described by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his January 6,
1941, State of the Union Address.
Neutrality Acts
Series of laws passed between 1935 and 1939 to keep the United States from
becoming involved in war by prohibiIng American trade and travel to warring
naIons.
Cash and Carry Policy
1939. Law passed by Congress which allowed a naIon at war to purchase
goods and arms in US as long as they paid cash and carried merchandise on
their own ships.
Lend-Lease Act
1941 law that permiMed the United States to lend or lease arms and other
supplies to the Allies, signifying increasing likelihood of American involvement
in World War II.
Allied Powers
Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World
War II.
Axis Powers
Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
, D-Day
June 6, 1944, when an Allied amphibious assault landed on the Normandy
coast and established a foothold in Europe, leading to the liberaIon of France
from German occupaIon.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese ciIes on which the United States detonated two nuclear weapons on
August 6 and 9, 1945. The bombs killed over 225,000 people. Six days later,
Japan surrendered, ending the war in the Pacific.
Holocaust
SystemaIc racist aMempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews of Europe,
resulIng in the murder of over 6 million Jews and more than a million other
'undesirables.'
GI Bill of Rights
The 1944 legislaIon that provided money for educaIon and other benefits to
military personnel returning from World War II.
Japanese-American internment
Policy adopted by the Roosevelt administraIon in 1942 under which 110,000
persons of Japanese descent, most of them American ciIzens, were removed
from the West Coast and forced to spend most of World War II in internment
camps; it was the largest violaIon of American civil liberIes in the twenIeth
century.
Korematsu v. United States
A 1944 Supreme Court decision that upheld as consItuIonal the internment of
more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent in encampments during
World War II.
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2020) LATEST EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Four Freedoms
Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom
from fear, as described by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his January 6,
1941, State of the Union Address.
Neutrality Acts
Series of laws passed between 1935 and 1939 to keep the United States from
becoming involved in war by prohibiIng American trade and travel to warring
naIons.
Cash and Carry Policy
1939. Law passed by Congress which allowed a naIon at war to purchase
goods and arms in US as long as they paid cash and carried merchandise on
their own ships.
Lend-Lease Act
1941 law that permiMed the United States to lend or lease arms and other
supplies to the Allies, signifying increasing likelihood of American involvement
in World War II.
Allied Powers
Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World
War II.
Axis Powers
Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
, D-Day
June 6, 1944, when an Allied amphibious assault landed on the Normandy
coast and established a foothold in Europe, leading to the liberaIon of France
from German occupaIon.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese ciIes on which the United States detonated two nuclear weapons on
August 6 and 9, 1945. The bombs killed over 225,000 people. Six days later,
Japan surrendered, ending the war in the Pacific.
Holocaust
SystemaIc racist aMempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews of Europe,
resulIng in the murder of over 6 million Jews and more than a million other
'undesirables.'
GI Bill of Rights
The 1944 legislaIon that provided money for educaIon and other benefits to
military personnel returning from World War II.
Japanese-American internment
Policy adopted by the Roosevelt administraIon in 1942 under which 110,000
persons of Japanese descent, most of them American ciIzens, were removed
from the West Coast and forced to spend most of World War II in internment
camps; it was the largest violaIon of American civil liberIes in the twenIeth
century.
Korematsu v. United States
A 1944 Supreme Court decision that upheld as consItuIonal the internment of
more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent in encampments during
World War II.
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