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The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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Chapter 25: Americans and a World in Crisis, 1933-1945



After reading Chapter 25, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

Good Neighbor Policy

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Munich Conference, 1938

Nye Committee hearings

Neutrality Acts

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939

Nuremberg Laws, 1935; Kristallnacht; the "final solution"

St. Louis

Battle of Britain

Henry L. Stimson

Henry Wallace

Wendell L. Willkie

isolationists and the America First Committee versus the interventionists

lend-lease

Atlantic Charter

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere versus the Open Door policy

Tripartite Pact of the Axis powers

Hideki Tojo

Office of Price Administration (OPA)

James F. Byrnes and the Office of War Mobilization

Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act

Manhattan Project and J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Second Front

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Operation Torch and Operation Overlord

Battle of the Bulge

Battles of Coral Sea and Midway

Douglas MacArthur

"Rosie the Riveter"

A. Philip Randolph and the March-on-Washington Movement

Executive Order 8802 and the Fair Employment Practices Commission

pachucos, sailors, and the Los Angeles zoot-suit riot

Korematsu case (1944); Personal Justice Denied (1982)

Tehran and Yalta conferences

Potsdam Conference and Potsdam Declaration


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