WWII and Post-War Prosperity

The Axis Powers were..

• The Soviet Union, Britain and the United States

• Germany, Japan and Italy

What caused the US to enter into World War II?

• Yellow Journalism

• Zimmerman Telegram

• The attack on Pearl Harbor

• Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare

During the D-Day invasion of Normandy..

• The US captured Japanese Islands

• The US forced the Soviet Union to surrender

• The US helped the allies liberate France

• The US encouraged the allied invasion of Pearl Harbor

FDR passed a series of Neutrality laws in the late 1930s too

• Help the US avoid getting involved in WWII

• Recognize the Soviet Union as an independent country

• To form an alliance with Nazi Germany

• To establish good trade relations with Europe

Cash and Carry and Lend-Lease were efforts by the US to

• Help Western Europe recover from the damages of WWI

• Give aid to the Allies while staying out of combat during WWII

• To punish Japan for its aggressions in China

• To spread democracy globally

The Baby Boom best describes..

• The increase birth rates in the mid 1940s-1950s as soldiers returned home from the war

• The increase in Native American children being born during the 1950s

• A time period where people strapped babies to rockets to make sacrifices to the sun god

The War Refugee Board was created to..

• Give reoperations for Asian immigrants who were excluded from the US

• Increase to number of skilled laborers available to aid in the war effort

• Limit the amount of immigrants entering the US after WWII

• To harbor people who were suffering human rights violations caused by the Holocaust

What was a consequence of the Middle Class moving to the suburbs

• People living in the cities were enjoying great prosperity

• Urban Poverty became an unnoticed problem and American cities would decline

• Congress passed a constitutional amendment aimed at eliminating urban poverty

The Allied Powers were..

• The Soviet Union, Britain and United States

• Germany, Japan and Italy

The Manhattan Project..

• Was the top secret mission to acquire Nazi scientists to help the US space program

• Was the top secret mission to create the worlds first atomic bomb

• Was the top secret mission to assassinate Hitler

• Was the top secret mission to send Japanese-American citizens back to Japan to stage a coup