District Test #3 (aka the stupidest fucking thing ever)

Question 1

President Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech and Declaration of War against Japan

Answer 1

After the Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed Congress and said it was a day that would live in Infamy. Congress approved his request for a declaration of war against Japan shortly after.

Question 2

Reasons for American isolationism

Answer 2

• Americans felt becoming involved in WW1 was a disastrous mistake
• America was enduring the worst depression in history
• People felt America couldn’t police the world and right every wrong

Question 3

Examples of America evolving from neutrality to intervention in WWII

Answer 3

• U.S. enacted the Lend-Lease Act after the Battle of Britain
• In response to the massacre of civilians in Nanjing by Japanese troops, Roosevelt made a speech calling for a quarantine against aggressor nations like Japan

Question 4

Neutrality Acts and Oil Embargo

Answer 4

• U.S. declared neutrality after Germany attacked Poland
• U.S. congress passed neutrality acts in 1936 and 1937, which kept the U.S. out of the Spanish Civil War
• U.S. declared an oil embargo on Japan, which kept them from getting oil and weakened their supplies

Question 5

Lend Lease Act

Answer 5

Law passed in 1941 that allowed the U.S. to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the axis powers

Question 6

George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and the policy of containment

Answer 6

Containment- proposed by George Kennan, policy of stopping the spread of communism throughout the world
“Long Telegram”- stated the Soviet’s form of government was bad and not to be trusted

Question 7

The Marshall Plan

Answer 7

• America sent economic aid to countries in Europe after the war left them destroyed
• Little support in congress until communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948
• Revitalized Europe’s economy
• No country in Western Europe fell to communism

Question 8

Korean War

Answer 8

• America backed the south, Soviets backed the North
• Enemy in this war was North Korea & China
• North K. attacked South K.
• No peace treaty was ever signed, only a cease-fire agreement

Question 9

Truman Doctrine

Answer 9

Committed the U.S. to the policy of of containment

Expected U.S. to stop communist expansion

Question 10

McCarthyism and Civil Liberties

Answer 10

• McCarthy accused hundred of people (without shown evidence) of being a part of the communist party in the United States
• Of those accused, many were blacklisted, lost jobs, and lost friends
• Taft Hartley Act- limited power of labor unions
• President’s committee on civil rights enacted

Question 11

HUAC

Answer 11

• House Committee on Un-American Activities

- Monitored society for anything un-patriotic

Question 12

Berlin Airlift

Answer 12

• Lasted 324 days, 2.5 millions tons of provisions
• May, 1949- Stalin conceded defeat and lifted the blockade
• Victory for west Germany and the United States