World War II Review

The Lend-Lease Act

• allowed Americans to continue its policy of imperialism in China

• provided $50 billion worth of supplies to Allied Nations during World War II

• Kept foreign nations from colonizing the Western Hemisphere

• affirmed America's neutrality during the First World War

The United States ended their policies of neutrality in the 1940s when

• the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

• Germany continued a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare

• Italy declared war on the United States

• Germany threatened to align with Mexico

During the war, Japanese Americans on the west coast of the United States

• filled the ranks of integrated regiments

• were relocated to internment camps

• were denied freedom of speech

• refused to pay their taxes

The turning point of the war in Europe occurred in the

• invasion of northern France at Normandy

• Battle of the Bulge

• Invasion at Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Iwo Jima

In Korematsu v US, the Supreme Court ruled that

• the Fourteenth Amendment was absolute

• the Japanese were permitted to own property within internment camps

• in times of war, Constitutional rights could be limited

• habeas corpus rights were universally guaranteed

The Yalta Conference presented which potential conflict?

• A struggle for land between Britain and the United States

• The spread of communism throughout Eastern Europe

• The Unification of Germany

• A nuclear arms race between Western nations.

During both World War I and World War II, American women

• fought overseas

• became isolated in their homes

• entered factories to fill jobs left vacant by men fighting abroad

• demanded equal pay for equal work in the private sector