WW Invasion of USSR

Question 1

Unlike our desire to be a neutral country early during WWI, Americans wanted our country to be actively involved with WWII from the beginning.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What did the “Neutrality Acts” of 1935 and 1937 make it illegal for the United States to do?

Answer 2

Sell weapons or lend money to nations at war

Question 3

How did U.S. president Roosevelt support Allied countries while keeping America technically neutral?

Answer 3

Get Congress to let the US sell war materials to Allied countries as long as they came to USA to get them, Lend/lease materials if countries couldn’t pay

Question 4

Even though we were still officially neutral in the fall of 1941, U.S. ships were being fired at by German submarines in the Atlantic, and in some cases we fired back.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What name was given for the German invasion of the Soviet Union?

Answer 5

Operation Barbarossa

Question 6

What strategy did the Soviets use against the German invasion, a strategy whereby they essentially retreated and either took with them or destroyed anything the invading Germans might find useful.

Answer 6

Scorched Earth

Question 7

How long did it take, and how many people died, before Stalin surrendered the city of Leningrad to the Germans?

Answer 7

Leningrad was NOT surrendered

Question 8

What did Germany and Hitler do that was different from what Napoleon and France had done a century before when they found themselves near Moscow and it was winter?

Answer 8

Germany dug in for the winter rather than retreat