Causes of WWII

Which event led directly to the outbreak of World War II?

• The invasion of the Rhineland

• The invasion of Poland

• The Munich Conference

• The Dunkirk evacuation

The year 1939 was a turning point in world history because it marked -

• The end of the Great Depression

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• The D-Day Invasion of France

• The beginning of WWII

Winston Churchill requested aid to the Allies in 1940. What did this lead Franklin Roosevelt to do?

• It spurred Roosevelt to propose the Lend-Lease Act

• It led Roosevelt to institute a draft

• It prompted Roosevelt to declare war on Germany

• It forced Roosevelt to sign the War Powers Act

What was one reason Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?

• The U.S. strategy of island hopping had disturbed Pacific trade routes

• The Japanese naval fleet had been defeated at the Battle of Midway

• U.S. trade sanctions had caused shortages of oil, gas, and rubber

• Japanese Americans had been relocated to internment camps

Which most accurately characterizes the policy followed by the United States in the years between World War I and World War II?

• Military alliances with France and Great Britain

• Isolation from European military conflicts

• Active membership in the League of Nations

• containment of Communism

“The conflict is still sharpening throughout the world between two political systems. The one system represents government by freedom of choice exercised by the individual citizens. In the other, and opposing system, individual freedom and initiative are all made subordinate the totalitarian state.

-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938

What was the ultimate result of the situation President Roosevelt refers to in the excerpt?

• The outbreak of World War II

• The surge of social unrest in South America

• The overthrow of the monarchy in Russia

• A shift in favor of the policy of appeasement

“There is solidarity and interdependence about the modern world...which makes it impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic and political upheavals in the rest of the world, especially when such upheavals appear to be spreading and not declining...International anarchy destroys every foundation for peace.

-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937

President Roosevelt later used similar reasoning as one justification for -

• U.S. participation in the League of Nations

• Dropping atomic bombs on Japan

• The implementation of the Marshall Plan

• U.S. involvement in World War II

*Hitler and Nazi Party gain power

*Germany Annexes Austria

*Germany seizes Czechoslovakia

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Which of the following should be added to the list above?

• Germany signed the Munich Pact with Japan

• Germany invades Poland

• Germany invades Ethiopia

• Germany attacks the United States at Pearl Harbor

....The President may, from time to time, when he deems it in the interest of national defense, authorize the Secretary of War...

(1) To manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards...any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States

Judging from the excerpt, this text of the World War II era came from the -

• U.S. declaration of war

• National Labor Relations Act that granted new rights to workers

• Executive order banning racial discrimination in wartime factories

• Lend-Lease Act

What was one direct effect of World War II activities promote by this poster?

• Changes in the traditional roles of women

• The establishment of women’s suffrage

• Combat training for women

• The election of women political leaders