Unit 1: World Aggression and U.S. Neutrality

Question 1

1931

Answer 1

Japan attacks Manchuria for oil, natural resources, land (at this point Japan was the strongest nation in Asia)
•Manchuria was to China what Alaska is to the U.S.

Question 2

1933

Answer 2

•Japan leaves the League of Nations

Question 3

1935

Answer 3

•Mussolini attacks Ethiopia

Question 4

1935-U.S. Neutrality Act

Answer 4

• U.S. policy of isolationism in question
• Act outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war
• Roosevelt said that there was no need to enforce the act just yet
• Japan hadn’t officially declared war on China, so U.S. continues sending supplies to China

Question 5

1936

Answer 5

Hitler occupies the Rhineland

Question 6

1937

Answer 6

• Mussolini attacks Albania
•FDR declares “quarantine”
-Calls on “peace loving nations” to isolate or “quarantine” aggressor nations
•Japan attacks China (BEGINNING OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC)

Question 7

1938-Annexation of Czechoslovakia

Answer 7

•Hitler argues the Czechs were abusing Sudeten Germans
•France and Britain had promised to protect Czechoslovakia
-Hitler invites leaders to Munich to talk
•Neville Chamberlain (Britain) and Edouard Daladier (France) at talks
•Hitler claims annexation of Sudetenland his last territorial expansion (Munich Agreement)
-Chamberlain proclaims “peace and honor”
-Churchill calls this “appeasing” Hitler

Question 8

1938

Answer 8

•Hitler occupies Austria and Czechoslovakia

Question 9

1939

Answer 9

• Hitler attacks Poland (FRANCE AND BRITAIN DECLARE WAR)

* U.S. ban on sale of scrap metal and oil to Japan

Question 10

1940 (1)

Answer 10

•Japan attacks Indo-China
•Selective Service Act
-First peacetime conscription
-At first, able-bodied men 18-25 years old must register
-Later expands to 18*65 years old
•Destroyer-Naval Base deal with Britain
-U.S. trades 50 destroyers to Royal Navy for British Territories

Question 11

1940 - Nazis take…

Answer 11

•April
  -Norway
  -Denmark
•May
  -Belgium
  -Netherlands
•June
  -France surrenders

Question 12

1940 (2)

Answer 12

•The Battle of Britain
-Nazis assemble along French coast
-Luftwaffe assist
-Continue bombing after Hitler calls off
•Lend-Lease Act
-Lend/lease arms to countries, “defense was vital to U.S.”

Question 13

1941

Answer 13

• Nazis attack USSR

* Japan attacks Pearl Harbor