#7 - World War II

Invaded by the Germans in Sept. 1939?

• France
• Sweden
• Poland
• Canada

Three weeks after the invasion of Poland, Roosevelt persuaded Congress to provide lethal aid to which two countries?

• Spain & Portugal
• Britain & France
• Italy & Japan
• Japan & Soviet Union

Cash and Carry (1937)

Lend-Lease Act (1941)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

Which change in United States foreign policy is demonstrated by the passage of these acts prior to US entry into World War II?

• A shift from neutrality toward more direct involvement.

• An effort to become more neutral

• A movement from isolationsim to containment of communism

• A desire to provide aid to both Allied and Axis powers.

Answer explanation

At the beginning of the war, the US stayed neutral, but as FDR stated, the US was not neutral in thought. The US was hoping the Allies would become victorious. Throughout the first years of the war, the US passed several acts that allowed the US to aid the Allies without joining the war. As time passed, each Act passed drew the US closer and closer to joining the Allies.

In September 1940, President Roosevelt began limiting scrap iron and steel to this country?

• Japan
• Italy
• Soviet Union
• France

In Europe during the 1930's, several national leaders, in order to preserve peace at any cost, agreed. to the demands of an aggressor. This policy is referred to as

• militarism

• nonalignment

• reparation

• appeasement

Answer explanation

The Munich Pact was an example of Appeasement. Britain agreed to Germany taking both Austria and the Sudetenland in order to avoid war. Appeasement is giving into an aggressors demands in order to avoid war.

Axis Powers:

• Italy, France, Britain
• U.S., France, Britain
• Italy, Japan, Germany
• Britain, Japan, Italy

What event led to the US joining World War II? 

• Germany invaded Poland. 
• Germany sent Mexico a secret telegram. 
• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
• Germany bombed Pearl Harbor. 

During World War II, many Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were relocated to detention centers primarily because they

• were known spies for Japan

• were seen as a security threat

• refused to serve in the United States military

• expressed their support for Italy and Germany

Answer explanation

The US government decided that they could not trust any person from Japanese descent after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Shortly after entering World War II, the United States began the Manhattan Project to

• work on the development of an atomic bomb
• increase economic production to meet wartime demands
• defend New York City against a nuclear attack
• recruit men for the military services

Japanese Suicide Bombers were called

• Kamikaze 
• Blitzkrieg 
• Stalingrad
• Sitzkrieg