Chapter 11-1

Question 1

Overall the government favored isolationism and neutrality

Answer 1

Neutrality Acts

Question 2

Passed a series of acts to ensure neutrality and isolationism

Answer 2

1. 1935 banned the sale of weapons to nations at war
2. 1936 no lone’s to warring nations
3. 1937 Cash and carry

Question 3

3 weeks after the invasion of Poland what happend?

Answer 3

Britain and France declared war

Question 4

When did we step up to help Britain?

Answer 4

After France fell in 1940

Question 5

What did we give to Britain in exchange to build American military base on British territory?

Answer 5

50 old destroyers

Question 6

Who did not want us to help the British?

Answer 6

A group called America First Committee (Isolationist)

Question 7

Britain was almost bankrupts so they wouldn’t be able to buy supplies

Answer 7

Lend Lease = Nov. 1940

Question 8

Authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense was vital to American security

Answer 8

Lend Lease Act

Question 9

Who did the US and Britain pledge support to attack?

Answer 9

Hitler

Question 10

Army officer who took over power in Japan

Answer 10

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 11

Date of Pearl Harbor Attack

Answer 11

December 7, 1941

Question 12

First African American to be rewarded the Navy Cross

Answer 12

Doris Miller

Question 13

What did we call December 7, 1941

Answer 13

“A date which will live infamy”

Question 14

Required all males age of 21-36 to register for military service

Answer 14

Selective Training and Service Act

Question 15

Why did some people join on there own will?

Answer 15

Joined out of patriotism

Question 16

Who came up with a secret code based on their language that little people knew?

Answer 16

Navajos

Question 17

What where the women who where pilots called in the military?

Answer 17

Wasp (Women Air force Service Pilots)

Question 18

Where did bombings effect for their production

Answer 18

Britain and the Soviet Union

Question 19

What industry was suspended for the Duration of the war

Answer 19

The Automobile industry

Question 20

Introduced mass production techniques into shipbuilding that cut time needed to build one type of ship from 200 days to 40 ships

Answer 20

Henry J. Kaiser

Question 21

Where did money come from

Answer 21

Higher taxes

Question 22

How would you barrow money from the public?

Answer 22

Bonds (war bonds)

Question 23

Movies featured patriotic themes and supported the war by encouraging Americans to buy what?

Answer 23

Victory bonds

Question 24

Load bombers up on aircraft carriers and attack Japan. Where named after who?

Answer 24

Lt, Colonel James H. Doolittle

Question 25

Who attacked Midway?

Answer 25

The Japanese

Question 26

Planes scatter large numbers of bombs over a wide area

Answer 26

Carpet Bombing

Question 27

The Flying Fortress

Answer 27

B-17

Question 28

Late 1943 one of the top Generals = ___________ said we needed to attack German forces in France.

Answer 28

George Marshall

Question 29

When was D-Day?

Answer 29

June 6th, 1944

Question 30

Code named beaches

Answer 30

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

Question 31

Plan to trick the Germans about the invasion fleet was called

Answer 31

Operation Fortitude

Question 32

Operation Overlord was headed by who?

Answer 32

General Dwight Wisenhower