Motives and Outcomes of intervention in WWII

What was the U.S. reaction to the rise of totalitarian leaders in the mid 1930s?

• To declare war

• To pass the Neutrality Acts

• to seize Aggressive nations' colonies

• to drop atomic bombs on Germany

What idea is represented in the political cartoon about the U.S. at the beginning of W.W.II?

• To avoid American involvement in another global war

• To establish Germany as the center for world peace

• To stay out of the war until the U.S. had a new President

• To determine responsibility for reparations following World War I

What was the primary reason the US decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?

• To save American lives

• To completely destroy all Axis Powers

• To gain another territory: Japan

• In order to show the world US was a world power

Why did the United States join the international conflict in 1941?

• the surprise attack on a U.S. naval base

• the sinking of the Lusitania

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

Which of the following did the Axis Powers view as an economic declaration of Americans joining a side in World War II?

• The New Deal Programs

• The Lend-Lease Acts

• The Zimmerman telegram

• the island hopping campaign

• the Great Awakening