Key Terms
- appeasement
- the policy of giving in to threats and aggression in the hopes that the aggressor will be satisfied and make no more demands
- Big Three
- the nickname given to the leaders of the three major Allied nations: Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
- conscientious objectors
- those who, for religious or philosophical reasons, refuse to serve in the armed forces
- D-day
- June 6, 1944, the date of the invasion of Normandy, France, by British, Canadian, and American forces, which opened a second front in Europe
- Double V campaign
- a campaign by African Americans to win victory over the enemy overseas and victory over racism at home
- Enola Gay
- the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
- Executive Order 9066
- the order given by President Roosevelt to relocate and detain people of Japanese ancestry, including those who were American citizens
- Fascism
- a political ideology that places a heightened focus on national unity, through dictatorial rule, and militarism
- internment
- the forced incarceration of the West Coast Japanese and Japanese American population into ten relocation centers for the greater part of World War II
- Manhattan Project
- the code name given to the research project that developed the atomic bomb
- materiel
- equipment and supplies used by the military
- Rosie the Riveter
- a symbol of female workers in the defense industries
- zoot suit
- a flamboyant outfit favored by young African American and Mexican American men