WW2 Preparations

Question 1

What were the US neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)?

Answer 1

Stated that if a foreign country was in a war, certain restrictions would go into effect.

Question 2

What was the purpose of the neutrality acts?

Answer 2

To prevent US entanglement in foreign affairs.

Question 3

How did the Spanish Civil War start?

Answer 3

A group of Spanish rebels rose against the left-wing republic of Madrid and loyalist Regime.

Question 4

Who led the Spanish Rebels?

Answer 4

Fascist Francisco Franco

Question 5

Which countries aided the Spanish rebels?

Answer 5

Germany and Italy

Question 6

Which country supported the loyalist Regime?

Answer 6

Soviet Union

Question 7

What was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade?

Answer 7

A group of soldiers and veterans that supported the Loyalist party.

Question 8

The Japanese invaded ______.

Answer 8

China/Manchuria

Question 9

What did FDR do in his Quarantine speech?

Answer 9

He proposed economic embargos against aggresive dictators.

Question 10

Japanese planes sunk an American ship called:

Answer 10

Panay

Question 11

How did Hitler violate the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 11

He introduced a German military.

Question 12

At a conference, western democracies allowed Hitler to keep this land, with the hope of him stopping invading other countries.

Answer 12

Sudetenland

Question 13

Hitler took over all of this country in March 1939.

Answer 13

Czechoslovakia

Question 14

Germany- Soviet treaty

Answer 14

Hitler-Stalin pact

Question 15

WW2 started when Hitler invaded this country.

Answer 15

Poland

Question 16

What was the US Neutrality Act 1939?

Answer 16

The act allowed for European democracies to buy US ammunition as long as they paid in cash and transported in their own ships.

Question 17

What effect did the increase in war supplies demand have on the US economy?

Answer 17

It ended the depression since people were needed to organize a war effort.

Question 18

Why was the start of the war called a “phony war”.

Answer 18

The UK and France were not really militarily involved in the war yet.

Question 19

The Soviet took over this country even though Congress loaned $30 million dollars to them.

Answer 19

Finland

Question 20

How did the “phony war” end?

Answer 20

Hitler took over multiple nearby European countries.

Question 21

This important country eventually fell to Hitler.

Answer 21

France

Question 22

Congress passed this, which initiated a peacetime draft.

Answer 22

a conscription law

Question 23

FDR and Congress set out to build what , after realizing that England was the only country that was in the way of total European domination.

Answer 23

airfleets + a 2 ocean navy

Question 24

What did the US promise in the Havana Conference?

Answer 24

To protect Latin America from German Aggression.