Unit 8-World War II

When World War II broke out in Europe, the United States was weary of joining the war after committing to a war "over there" a decade before.

It adopted a position of_____________

• neutrality

• cash and carry

• embargp

• fascism

Acts signed by President Roosevelt in the 1930s that banned the US from selling any materials to belligerent (uncooperative) nations

• Lend Lease Acts

• Neutrality Acts

• Human Rights Acts

• Civil Rights Acts

Act passed in March 1941 by President Roosevelt that changed the stance of neutrality. It allowed the US to provide aid to allied nations (Great Britain, France, Soviet Union)

• Lend Lease Act

• Neutrality Act

• Wagner Act

• Social Security Act

Policy that stated the US would sell war materials to belligerent nations so long as they were able to pay cash immediately and carry it away

• Cash and carry policy

• neutrality policy

• New Deal

• 2nd New Deal

The Lend Lease Acts (1940s) allowed the United States to provide military aid to Allied Nations. Which of these was NOT an allied nation of the US in the 1940s

• Japan

• Great Britain

• France

• Soviet Union

The United States declared war on Japan and joined World War II after the attack on US at _________

• Pearl Harbor

• Nagasaki

• Hiroshima

• Tokyo

During World War II, the United States secretly developed a group of scientists who would work on creating __________

• Atomic Bomb

• Peace and Harmony

• Coronavirus

• Lend Lease Acts

The technology of developing the Atomic Bomb took along time and was eventually used to end the US war with Japan by unleashing two atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Tokyo

• Pearl Harbor

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order that forced all people residing in American of ________ descent into __________ _____

• Japanese

  interment camps

• Chinese

  internment camps

• Russian

  Hoovervilles

• German

  Shantytowns

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans

• were suspicious of all Japanese-Americans because they thought they helped coordinate the attack

• felt sorry for the Japanese and helped them escape from the internment camps

• were suspicious of the German-Americans because they thought they helped coordinate the attack

• joined together to collect money, food and clothing for displaced Japanese