https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc Made with a dash of wit en-us 2021-03-22 13:35:00 UTC 2026-02-12 16:17:45 UTC hello@padlet.com ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337844895 After a fierce debate in Congress, in November of 1939, a final Neutrality Act passed. This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” ]]> 2021-03-22 13:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337844895 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337847031 The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor ]]> 2021-03-22 13:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337847031 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337850155 It was the first pure carrier-versus-carrier battle in history as neither surface fleet sighted the other.]]> 2021-03-22 13:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337850155 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337857992 The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African-American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337857992 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337872767 In June of 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work.]]> 2021-03-22 13:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337872767 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337891110 OWI is an acronym for operating while intoxicated, referring to a legal charge for drunken driving.]]> 2021-03-22 13:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337891110 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337895610 Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337895610 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337897354 The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom]]> 2021-03-22 13:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337897354 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337911005 The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy.]]> 2021-03-22 13:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337911005 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337913586 The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war.]]> 2021-03-22 13:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337913586 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337915735 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office determined to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America. Under his leadership the United States emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the hemisphere.]]> 2021-03-22 13:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337915735 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337917714 Cash and carry was a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on September 21, 1939 to replace the Neutrality Acts of 1936. The revision allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash.]]> 2021-03-22 13:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337917714 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337919678 Totalitarianism is a concept for a form of government or political system that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.]]> 2021-03-22 13:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337919678 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337922279 an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory]]> 2021-03-22 13:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337922279 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337934412 Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor.]]> 2021-03-22 13:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337934412 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337937225 The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment is best known for its history as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337937225 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337939324 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.]]> 2021-03-22 13:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337939324 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337941482 The Lend-Lease Act, approved by Congress in March 1941, had given President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality.]]> 2021-03-22 13:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337941482 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337943965 The Women's Army Corps was the women's branch of the United States Army.]]> 2021-03-22 13:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337943965 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337947770 Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.]]> 2021-03-22 13:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337947770 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337953086 The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea]]> 2021-03-22 13:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337953086 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337955546 The Bracero program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337955546 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337957602 The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history]]> 2021-03-22 13:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337957602 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337959396 Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II.]]> 2021-03-22 13:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337959396 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337962689 J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.]]> 2021-03-22 13:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337962689 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337965056 The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.]]> 2021-03-22 13:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337965056 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337968102 The Potsdam Conference, held near Berlin, July 17-August 2, 1945, was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. It was attended by Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S]]> 2021-03-22 13:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337968102 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337970962 The America First Committee was the foremost United States isolationist pressure group against American entry into World War II.]]> 2021-03-22 13:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337970962 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337973135 The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941.]]> 2021-03-22 13:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337973135 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337975018 hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people.]]> 2021-03-22 13:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337975018 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337977577 The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.]]> 2021-03-22 13:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337977577 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337980208 Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale, its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337980208 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337982694 The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337982694 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337984988 The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains.]]> 2021-03-22 13:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337984988 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337987265 George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.]]> 2021-03-22 13:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337987265 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337989680 Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African-American labor union. ]]> 2021-03-22 13:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337989680 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337991842 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case upholding the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.]]> 2021-03-22 13:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337991842 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337994207 The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. ]]> 2021-03-22 14:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337994207 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337995986 Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.]]> 2021-03-22 14:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337995986 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337999147 The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula]]> 2021-03-22 14:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1337999147 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338000974 The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war. ]]> 2021-03-22 14:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338000974 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338003081 The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II]]> 2021-03-22 14:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338003081 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338004815 The Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago, calling for an international "quarantine" ]]> 2021-03-22 14:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338004815 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338007111 In World War II, the three great Allied powers—Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory. But the alliance partners did not share common political aims, and did not always agree on how the war should be fought.]]> 2021-03-22 14:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338007111 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338010746 the action or process of appeasing.]]> 2021-03-22 14:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338010746 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338012541 a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.

]]> 2021-03-22 14:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338012541 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338014344 The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.]]> 2021-03-22 14:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/qmkmtyo8h2zolywc/wish/1338014344