WWII and Cold War

The Lend-Lease Act

• allowed America to continue its policy of imperialism in China

• provided $50 billion worth of supplies to Allied Nations during WWII

• kept foreign nations from colonizing in 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 attached Pearl Harbor

• Germany continued a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare

• Italy declared war on the US

• Germany threatened to align with Mexico

During the war, Japanese Americans on the West coast

• 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 Buldge

• invasion at Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Iwo Jima

In Korematsu v. US, the Supreme Court ruled that

• the 14th 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 US

• the spread of communism throughout Eastern Europe

• the unification of Germany

• a nuclear arms race between Western nations

During both WWI and WWII, 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

George Kennan's view of the policy of containment meant

• appeasement to the Soviet Union

• an attack on the Soviet Union and its satellites

• the division of Germany into zones controlled by the West and Soviet Union

• stopping both the spread of communism and Soviet Union interests

The Truman Doctrine

• offered combat troops to help countries fighting communism

• gave economic aid to scientists developing the H-Bomb

• provided military aide, but not troops to foreign countries threatened by communism

• looked to expand democracy to areas in the Middle East

McCarthyism of the 1950s was most similar to

• Japanese internment during WWII

• suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War

• the immigration quota laws of the 1920s

• Palmer Raids of the WWI Era