World War II Homefront

Evidence that the United States generally followed a policy of isolationism during the period 1919-1939 is that the United States

• condemned Fascist aggression

• rejected the policy of appeasement

• refused to join the League of Nations

• participated in disarmament conferences

Which event caused the United States to declare war in 1941?

• Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

• the aggressive actions of Germany

• the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania

• German attacks on American merchant ships

The main reason the United States entered World War II was to

• gain additional overseas territories

• stop totalitarian aggression

• honor its treaty commitments

• spread capitalist economic ideas to poor nations

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort

• total war

• homefront

• Pearl Harbor

• Japanese Internment Camp

People who do not fight in the war but support the fighting of a war by working in factories, rationing, growing victory gardens

• total war

• homefront

• Pearl Harbor

• Japanese Internment Camp

A prison like facility used to house Japanese-Americans during WWII

• total war

• homefront

• Pearl Harbor

• Internment Camps

This example of propaganda was used to encourage

• women to join the army and fight

• women to stay at home with their families

• men to join the army and fight

• women to join the workforce

This group of people was most known for developing a secret code using their language that the Japanese never deciphered

• Native Americans

• Latinos

• African Americans

• Japanese Americans

This group of people migrated to the United States under the bracero program to help provide labor with wartime factories

• Native Americans

• Latinos

• African Americans

• Japanese Americans

This group of people were detained and isolated to the middle of the United States

• Native Americans

• Latinos

• African Americans

• Japanese Americans