America Enters the War

Question 1

destroyers for bases

Answer 1

United States transferred destroyers to the British Navy in exchange for leases for British naval and air bases.

Question 2

America first committee

Answer 2

an isolationist group formed in 1940, lobbied Congress against American involvement in foreign wars

Question 3

Eugenics and support for the Nazis

Answer 3

he thought he was improving human race through selective breeding (master race)

Question 4

lend-lease act

Answer 4

allowed the United States to provide aid to nations that were considered vital to its defense-1941

Question 5

Hemispheric Defense Zone

Answer 5

national policy established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II-helped US get arms to britain

Question 6

Reuben James

Answer 6

boatswain’s mate of the United States Navy, famous for an act of heroism in the First Barbary War

Question 7

pearl harbor

Answer 7

site of a surprise attack by Japanese military on December 7, 1941
led to the United States entering World War II