Isolationist: An Isolationist is a person favoring a policy of staying out of world affairs.
Neutrality Acts: These are a series of acts passed by congress in the 1930s aimed at keeping
the United States out of World War ll.
Lend And Lease Act: This allowed the United States to sell or lend war materials to any country
whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Pearl Harbor: On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes attacked the U.S Navy fleet at Pearl
harbor Hawaii calling it a day of infamy that the Americas will never forget.
World War ll: World War ll began in 1939, when German forces invaded Poland. The United
States entered the war two years later after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Executive Order 9066: This established military zones for the imprisonment of Japanese
Americans and was also responsible for handling the internment process of the Wartime
Relocation Authority (WRA).
Internment Camp: Internment camps are places of confinement especially in wartime.
Korematsu V. United States (1944): The Supreme Court upheld the forced evacuation as a
reasonable wartime emergency measure, Admitted the program was unjust, paid $20,000 to
each of the surviving interned Americans and issued a formal apology.
Cold War: This is the state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after
World War ll.
Containment: This is a US policy after World War ll of toying to keep the Soviet Union from
expanding its area of influence and dominance.
Truman Doctrine: This is President Truman’s promise to help nations struggling against
communist movements.
Marshall Plan (1948): The USA was against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos so from
1948-1952 $13 billion in economic aid was allocated by the Republican-dominated congress for
the rebuilding of Europe under the Marshall Plan.
NATO (1949): This agreement bound the participating nations to act together for their common
defense, Any attack on any one of them, mutual defense, And all of this was coordinated with
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Korea War: This was the conflict over the future of the korean peninsula fought between 1950
and 1953 and the war ended in a stalemate.
Neutrality Acts: These are a series of acts passed by congress in the 1930s aimed at keeping
the United States out of World War ll.
Lend And Lease Act: This allowed the United States to sell or lend war materials to any country
whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Pearl Harbor: On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes attacked the U.S Navy fleet at Pearl
harbor Hawaii calling it a day of infamy that the Americas will never forget.
World War ll: World War ll began in 1939, when German forces invaded Poland. The United
States entered the war two years later after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Executive Order 9066: This established military zones for the imprisonment of Japanese
Americans and was also responsible for handling the internment process of the Wartime
Relocation Authority (WRA).
Internment Camp: Internment camps are places of confinement especially in wartime.
Korematsu V. United States (1944): The Supreme Court upheld the forced evacuation as a
reasonable wartime emergency measure, Admitted the program was unjust, paid $20,000 to
each of the surviving interned Americans and issued a formal apology.
Cold War: This is the state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after
World War ll.
Containment: This is a US policy after World War ll of toying to keep the Soviet Union from
expanding its area of influence and dominance.
Truman Doctrine: This is President Truman’s promise to help nations struggling against
communist movements.
Marshall Plan (1948): The USA was against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos so from
1948-1952 $13 billion in economic aid was allocated by the Republican-dominated congress for
the rebuilding of Europe under the Marshall Plan.
NATO (1949): This agreement bound the participating nations to act together for their common
defense, Any attack on any one of them, mutual defense, And all of this was coordinated with
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Korea War: This was the conflict over the future of the korean peninsula fought between 1950
and 1953 and the war ended in a stalemate.
