World War II part 1 Review

The Lend-Lease Act was passed by the United States Congress

• To increase taxes on the American public
• To provide military aid to foreign nations during World War II without requiring direct compensation.
• To reduce military spending within the United States
• To establish a new trade agreement with European countries

Prior to entering WWII, the United States’ reaction to aggression in Asia was to

• Send military aid to aggressors
• impose an embargo on oil shipments to Japan.

• Declare war immediately
• Form alliances with Asian countries

What event led to a decisive shift away from isolationism in the United States?

• Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Invasion of Normandy

President Roosevelt’s speech that contained the phrase “a date that will live in infamy” relates to which event that helped draw the United States into World War II?

• Bombing of Hiroshima
• D-Day Invasion
• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Battle of Midway

What was the treaty that ended WWI that laid some of the unrest that would later explode into WWII?

• Treaty of Versailles
• Treaty of Paris
• Treaty of London
• Treaty of Berlin

When the war started in 1939, the United States was                                            because they did not choose a side to fight on. 

• aggressive
• allied
• neutral
• passive

Match the leader with their country.

• Germany

• Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman

• Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin

• United States of America

• Benito Mussolini

• United Kingdom

• Neville Chamberlain/Winston Churchill

• Italy

• Adolf Hitler

Match the Country to the letter on the map (You can make the map bigger by clicking on it)

• C

• Germany

• B

• England

• A

• France

• D

• Poland

Match the Country to the letter on the map (You can make the map bigger by clicking on it)

• G

• Belgium

• F

• Italy

• E

• Czechoslovakia

• H

• USSR

A policy that tries to avoid foreign alliances and involvement is called

• Isolationism
• Interventionism
• Globalization
• Multilateralism