Chapter 25

A reluctant isolationist, President Roosevelt believed during the 1930s that

Why did Roosevelt fail to suppor the League of Nations attempts to keep the peace by condemning Japanese and German aggression?

What was the goal of Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy

What factors made it possible for dictators to gain and maintain power in Nicaragua and Cuba after the implementation of the good neighbor policy?

What was the conclusion of the Nye committee's 1933 report on World War I?

What was the objective of the Neutrality Act of 1937?

How did the US government respond to the Spanish Civil War?

Who offered Adolf Hitler terms of appeasement in hopes of getting the German dictator to leave Czechoslovakia alone?

Which of the following occurred as a result of the Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in August 1939?

What event sparked the beginning of World War II?

What was the significance of the Battle of Britain in 1940?

What was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?

How did President Roosevelt justify the proposed Lend-Lease Act in January 1941?

In the Atlantic Charter in August of 1941, the United States and England agreed to

In the Tripartite Pact of 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan agreed to

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was part of the Japanese plan to

What was the immediate consequence of the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor on December 7, 1941?

Why did president Roosevelt authorize the roundup and internment of all Americans of Japanese descent in 1942?

About how many soldiers and sailors served in the US armed forces by the end of World War II?

Which of the following statements describes the relationship between American ethnic minorities and the armed forces during World War II?

Which group was forced to train in segregated camps, live in segregated barracks, and serve in segregated units during World War II?

Who headed the War Production Board, which set production priorities and pushed for maximum output during World War II?

How did American labor unions respond to the production demands of World War II?

By the summer of 1942, the Japanese had conquered which of the following?

The Battle of Midway signaled to the American military that

What technological development ultimately led Hitler to withdraw the infamous U-boats from the North Atlantic?

At their meeting in Casablanca in January 1943, Allied leaders Roosevelt and Churchhill

Which of the following describes the majority of American women who entered the labor force during World War II?

How did women who remained at home contribute to the American war effort?

The Double V campaign called for both victory in the war and victory for

How did President Roosevelt respond to A. Philip Randolph's plans to organize a march of 100,000 on Washington, DC in 1941?

What did African Americans who migrated to take jobs in defense industries during World War II experience in their new locations?

What explained the reluctance of the United States to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression?

Why did the United States fail to act on reports of Hitler's genocidal atrocities?

The allied assault against the German army on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is commonly known as

As the Allies closed in on him in December 1944, Hitler ordered a desperate counterattack through Belgium known as

In February 1945, the Big three met a Yalta to discuss

Who succeeded President Roosevelt in the White House after his death on April 12, 1945

What occurrence made April 30, 1945, a turning point in the war?

What was demonstrated during the six month battle to force the withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in February 1943?

The primary mission of Japanese kamikaze pilots was to

Why did American scientists begin to develop a superbomb in 1942?

The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki only three days after the attack on Hiroshima

Which nation, in an effort to increase its global power, invaded the northern Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931?