US Entry into World War II

What organization did the United States refuse to join after World War I

• NATO

• The League of Nations

• The United Nations

• The Kellog-Briand Pact

What was the prevailing US Foreign policy from 1920-1937?

• Globalism

• Interventionism

• Neutrality

• The Roosevelt Corollary

What was the purpose of the Nye Commission?

• To investigate what caused US involvement in WWI

• To investigate the causes of the Great Depression

• To investigate the cause of the Pearl Harbor Attack

• To investigate the scandals of the Harding Administration

What acts were passed due to the findings of the Nye Commission?

• The New Deal Acts

• The Interstate Highway Acts

• The Neutrality Acts

• The Lend Lease Acts

What was the official US foreign policy called that prevented US intervention in Latin America in the 1930s-1940? This policy was supported by Presidents Hoover an FDR.

• The Good Neighbor Policy

• The Roosevelt Corollary

• The Big Stick Policy

• The Lend Lease Act

Why did they US create the Cash and Carry Policy?

• To make more money off of European trade during war time

• To help the US recover from the Great Depression

• To prevent the sinking of US ships and unpaid debts by belligerent nations during wartime

• To prevent Japan from invading Machuria

Why did US foreign policy change in 1940?

• Germany was losing the war

• Most of Europe had fallen to Germany including France and Britain stood alone

• Britain was winning the war

• Japan invaded Machuria

What was the purpose of the Lend Lease Act, 1941?

• To send military aid to Britain and help them win the war against Nazi Germany

• To send military aid to the the Soviet Union and help them win the war against Britain

• To send military aid to Japan in taking over French Indochina

• To prevent the downfall of France to Nazi Germany

What US action caused a break down in diplomacy with Japan in 1941?

• The US embargo of scrap metal and gasoline against Japan after they invaded Southeast Asia

• The Japanese attack of the US gunboat the Panay on the Yangtze River, in China

• Japan invaded Manchuria and the US invoked the Stimson doctrine.

• The US began sending military aid to China to help them defeat Japan

What event caused the United States to enter World War II

• The Zimmerman Telegram

• The Sinking of the USS Maine

• The attack on Pearl Harbor

• German Uboat attacks on US merchant ships