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America Enters the War

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Lend-Lease Act

a)

materials important for fighting a war

b)

revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

c)

American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

d)

stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

e)

the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

2.

hemispheric defense zone

a)

materials important for fighting a war

b)

revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

c)

American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

d)

stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

e)

the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

3.

Neutrality Act of 1939

a)

materials important for fighting a war

b)

revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

c)

American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

d)

stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

e)

the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

4.

strategic materials

a)

materials important for fighting a war

b)

revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

c)

American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

d)

stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

e)

the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

5.

Reuben James

a)

materials important for fighting a war

b)

revised to allow warring countries to buy arms from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis

c)

American destroyer torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine

d)

stated the United States could supply arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States"

e)

the entire western half of the Atlantic Ocean that Roosevelt declared as a neutral territory

6.

In June 1941, in violation of a non-agression treaty, Hitler launched a massive invasion of

a)

Austria

b)

France

c)

the Soviet Union

d)

Czechoslovakia

7.

In 1941 President Roosevelt began sending lend-lease aid to

a)

China

b)

Britain

c)

the Philippines

d)

France

8.

Roosevelt and Churchill met near Newfoundland in 1941 and agreed on the text of the

a)

Export Control Act.

b)

Neutrality Act.

c)

Lend-Lease Act.

d)

Atlantic Charter.

9.

The group that in 1940 pushed for stronger action against Germany and the repeal of all neutrality laws was the

a)

America First Committee.

b)

Fight for Freedom Committee.

c)

Committee to Defend America.

d)

United States Congress.

10.

What finally brought the United States into World War II?

a)

sinking of the Reuben James

b)

Americans' horror at the persecution of the people by Nazis

c)

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

d)

the Atlantic Charter