America Enters the World War II

Lend-Lease Act

• materials important for fighting a war

• revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

• American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

• stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

• the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

Neutrality Act of 1939

• materials important for fighting a war

• revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

• American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

• stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

• the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

In June 1941, in violation of a non-agression treaty, Hitler launched a massive invasion of

• Austria

• France

• the Soviet Union

• Czechoslovakia

In 1941 President Roosevelt began sending lend-lease aid to

• China

• Britain

• the Philippines

• France

Roosevelt and Churchill met near Newfoundland in 1941 and agreed on the text of the

• Export Control Act.

• Neutrality Act.

• Lend-Lease Act.

• Atlantic Charter.

What finally brought the United States into World War II?

• sinking of the Reuben James

• Americans' horror at the persecution of the people by Nazis

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• the Atlantic Charter

True or False: France was an Axis Power?

• True

• False

True or False: Japan was on the Axis Power?

• True

• False

Tuskegee Airmen were

• Japanese American pilots

• Female Pilots

• African American pilots

• German American Pilots

Pearl Harbor happened in what country and/or state?

• Hawaii

• Japan

• Phillipines

• Midway