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Interwar Diplomacy & World War II
Directions: Use your review book or other resource to answer the following questions.
1. Why did FDR embark on the Good Neighbor Policy? What was the impact?
2. How did the United States react to the aggressiveness by Germany, Italy, and Japan?
3. In the mid-1930s, strong popular support existed for which foreign policy law?
4. What were the Neutrality Acts and what was their impact?
5. What was the sequence of events regarding American arm's sales to warring nations?
6. What was the "Quarantine Speech" issued by FDR?
7. What was the result of the Munich convention?
8. What was the non-aggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union?
9. How did World War II officially begin?
10. What was the destroyer deal? Its impact?
11. What was the shift in public opinion towards the war in 1940?
12. What was the lend-lease program? Its impact?
13. What was the Atlantic Charter?
14. Why did Japan believe it was forced into war?
15. Why was the attack on Pearl Harbor a surprise?
- What was American public opinion towards war before Pearl Harbor? After?
17. What military strategy did FDR favor?
18. What was America's first major challenge when the war began?
19. What was the reaction of most ethnic groups in America to WWII?
20. Why were Japanese-Americans placed in camps in WWII?
21. Which was the most prominent union to go on strike during WWII?
22. Why did most women leave the workforce after WWII?
23. Why did the northward migration of African-Americans occur during WWII?
24. What was FDR's policies towards native Americans during WWII?
25. What battle turned the tide of Japanese advancement in the Pacific?
26. What was the US strategy for the war in the Pacific?
27. What was a criticism of the unconditional surrender policy?
28. What was the importance of the Postdam?
Casablanca?
Teheran?
29. What was the main reason why FDR won election in 1944?
- What was the primary reason the United States used the atomic bombs in Japan?
- Do you believe this was the right decision?