Chapter 14 Test: World War II

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Internationalism

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Political principle that calls for greater political and economic cooperation among Allied nations

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Isolationism

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National policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries

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Neutrality Acts

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A series of laws enacted during the 1930s to prevent U.S. arms sales and loans to nations at war

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America First Committee

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Group which opposed U.S. involvement in World War II

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Cash and Carry Policy

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Policy that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own

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Arsenal of Democracy Speech

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Speech in which Roosevelt promised to help Great Britain fight against Germany by giving them military supplies

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Lend-Lease Act

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Policy under which the U.S. would lend or lease supplies to “any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.”

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Atlantic Charter

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Statement which defined the Allied goals for the post war world

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Which of the following events shifted American popular opinion and led to the U.S. declaration of war in December 1941?
Options:
Doolittle's Raid,
D-Day Invasion,
Attack on Pearl Harbor,
Battle of Midway

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

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Which American general was put in charge of planning for the D-Day Invasion in 1944?

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Dwight D. Eisenhower