WWII Part 1

Question 1

FDR issued a ___________ like I’m WWI.

Answer 1

Neutrality Proclamation

Question 2

_____________ pressured FDR to support GB.

Answer 2

Churchill

Question 3

Cash and Carry

Answer 3

GB would purchase weapons and they would pick them up. Would boost USA economy, but GB went broke.

Question 4

What started Cash and Carry?

Answer 4

The Neutrality Act of 1939

Question 5

Results of cash and Carry

Answer 5

Upswing from recession.
Solved unemployment rate.
Manufacturing UP!!

Question 6

Fireside Chats

Answer 6

• 30 speeches
• Safer in banks than “under a mattress.”
• 35 million watched

Question 7

Lend Lease Act.

Answer 7

• March 1941
• “Send guns, not sons.”
• Senator Taft said it was like chewing gum. “You don’t want it back.”
• Kept USA out of war while helping getting their job done.

Question 8

Pearl Harbor Attack

Answer 8

December 7th, 1941.
Not a state yet.
Pacific fleet, but aircrafts and some battle ships were away.
-3,000 AMERICANS DIED

Question 9

Pearl Harbor and Diplomats

Answer 9

It took 6 months to plan and a meeting the day before showed no signs of an attack.

Question 10

The USA declared war when? Vote count?

Answer 10

Day after.
82-0
388-1.

Question 11

Who voted against WWII?

Answer 11

Jeannette Rankin (First Female Congressman)

Question 12

When did Hitler declare war on USA? Led to?

Answer 12

Two days after USA declared on Japan. Declaration of war on all Axis powers. December and June.

Question 13

Draft used because needed ________ soldiers and noncombat roles. Population was ________.

Answer 13

15 mil, 150 mil.

Question 14

WAVES

Answer 14

Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.

Women in the Navy.

Question 15

What happened to consumer goods?

Answer 15

Less produced. Car manufacturers made trucks and tanks.

Question 16

Japan invades Philippines

Answer 16

MacArthur unable to defeat with 20k USA and 100k Filipinos.

Question 17

Battle of Dunkirk

Answer 17

May 26th-June 4th 1940

British allies of France lost. Civilian boats rescued them.
Hitler could have but didn’t kill them.

Question 18

Battle of Britain

Answer 18

1940.

Air battles. Blitzkrieg. Considered a British victory.

Question 19

How many civilians died in Battle of Britain?

Answer 19

90,000

Question 20

Where did MacArthur fight the Japanese from?

Answer 20

Bataan

Question 21

Why did they eat in Bataan

Answer 21

Mules and Monkeys

Question 22

MacArthur was ordered to secretly evacuate to where?

Answer 22

Australia

Question 23

Island hopping

Answer 23

Strategy used to break up Japanese control in the Pacific.

Question 24

Battle of Midway dates

Answer 24

June 4-7 1942

Question 25

Battle of Midway results

Answer 25

Sunk four aircraft carriers of Japan.

Question 26

Admiral of Midway

Answer 26

Spruance

Question 27

Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 27

First air and sea battle. Allies won.

Question 28

Coral Sea Dates

Answer 28

May 4-8 1942

Question 29

Pearl Harbor American Deaths

Answer 29

3,000

Question 30

Lend Lease Act Quote

Answer 30

“Send guns, not sons.”

Question 31

Dunkirk Dates

Answer 31

May 26th-June 4th 1940