World War II Chapter 18 Terms

Required all males aged 21-36 to register for military service

Term used for American soldiers in WWII, derived from the term “Government Issue”

Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during WWII

A home vegetable garden created to boost food production during WWII

A group of Navajos developed a secret code, based on their language, that the enemy could not break. The marines recruited more than 400 Navajos to serve as radio operations. These “code talkers” provided an important secure communications link in several key battles of the war

Created to direct the conversion of peacetime industries that produced war goods. It quickly halted the production of hundreds of civilian consumer goods and encouraged companies to make goods for the war. It set priorities and allocated raw materials

Introduced mass production techniques into shipbuilding and cut the time needed to build one type of ship from 200 days to 40 days.

A type of large, sturdy merchant ship built in WWII that carried supplies or troops

Job was to control inflation by limiting prices and rents. Such controls sometimes backfired

A popular song by Irving Berlin that was a sentimental favorite of both soldiers and civilians

"The architect of appeasement" British Prime minster from 1937 to 1940

British Prime Minister, believed that the Us would soon join Britain militarily as an ally in war

Agreement signed by FDR and Prime minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining the two nation’s war aims

The Germans countered with groups as many as 20 U-boats, called wolf packs, that carried out coordinated nighttime attacks on the convoys

The Italians wanted to rebuild the Roman empire, but a British army had successfully battled the Italian troops in the Egyptian and Libyan deserts of North Africa