Homework Check 11.2

Match the following

• Atlantic Charter

• The __________ Act of 1935 made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war.

• internationalism

• European refusal to repay loans from World War I and the findings of the __________ Committee, which documented the huge profits arms factories had made during the war, turned even more Americans to isolationism.

• Lend-Lease

• President Roosevelt supported ___________ , the idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war.

• Nye

• President Roosevelt and British Prime Minster Winston Churchill developed the ___________ , which committed the United States and Britain to a postwar world of democracy, free trade, non aggression, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas.

• Neutrality

• The ___________ Act allowed the United States to send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to return them or pay rent for them when the war ended.

President Franklin Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for

• cash and manufactured goods.

• a promise to pay at the war's end.

• a new agreement on trade.

• the use of British bases in the Atlantic.

The Neutrality Act of 1939 permitted the United States to sell arms to warring countries, but only

• in exchange for military bases.

• to nations in the Pacific.

• to Britain and its allies.

• on a cash-and-carry basis.

In 1940 which group pushed for stronger action against Germany and the repeal of all neutrality laws?

• the America First Committee

• the Fight for Freedom Committee

• the committee to Defend America

• the Four Freedoms Committee

In July of 1940, Congress gave President Roosevelt the power to put economic pressure on Japan by

• attacking Japanese submarines.

• building up American defenses in the Philippines.

• sending lend-lease aid to China.

• blocking the sale of strategic materials to Japan.