Unit 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
  2. 4. the American and British invasion of France in World War II; the successful invasion of this French northern province; began a series of victories for the Allies, and Germany surrendered less than a year late
  3. 5. a law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people
  4. 7. An area of heavy fighting across Europe, during World War II, from 1 September 1939 to 8 May 1945
  5. 9. the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; she was a world-renowned advocate of liberal causes in her own right; she became an early hero of the civil rights movement, and was a lifelong advocate for the United Nations
  6. 10. designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II
  7. 15. the term used by commentators at the time and historians ever since to characterize the second stage, 1935-36, of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  8. 17. elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II
  9. 21. The most destructive war in human history; America entered the war in 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  10. 22. allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity as a way to conserve resources during wartimes
  11. 23. a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II; it was led by the United States and supported by Canada and the United Kingdom
  12. 24. vice president under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and became president when Roosevelt died; he led the nation in the final months of World War II and made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
Down
  1. 1. The policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century.
  2. 3. a move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the Court
  3. 6. a major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships
  4. 8. a group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; it was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression
  5. 11. naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor
  6. 12. the city was destroyed in World War II when an American airplane dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare (August 6, 1945)
  7. 13. May 8, 1945; the day marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945
  8. 14. nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935
  9. 16. the city was devastated by the second atomic bomb used in World War II (August 9, 1945)
  10. 18. During World War II (1939-45), the United States fought battles in several regions of the world. ... Battles with the Japanese mostly occurred in the Pacific Theater, the waters and islands of the Pacific Ocean.
  11. 19. a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies
  12. 20. August 15, 1945 and September 2, 1945; the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered