Who's Who
Neutrality
Important Events
Who's Who pt. 2
Potpourri
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Who wrote the Roosevelt Corollary?

Theodore Roosevelt

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What did the Lend-Lease Act do?

The US could sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the President saw as vital to the defense of the American battleships that protected British ships

100

When was D-Day?

June 6, 1944

100

Who created the island-hopping strategy?

General Douglas MacArthur

100

What speech did Roosevelt tell the nation that said peaceful countries had to act together to isolate aggressive nations?

Quarantine Speech

200

Who seized power of the Soviet Union and established a brutal totalitarian dictatorship?

Joseph Stalin


200

What was the goal of the "cash-and-carry" basis?

To keep the US out of what was going to be another inevitable European conflict

200

When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?

December 7, 1941

200

Who led the allied troops on D-Day?

General Dwight Eisenhower

200

Who were the Flying Tigers?

U.S. volunteer fighter pilots that flew in supplies and engaged in combat with Japanese pilots

300

Who rose to Fascist power in Italy in the 1920s?

Benito Mussolini

300

What deal did the U.S. sign with the UK to exchange 50 naval destroyers for rights on lands Britain had previously possessed?

Destroyer for Bases Agreement

300

What was the Korematsu v. U.S. case about?

The movement of Japanese Americans to internment camps 

300

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen

An all African-American group in the Air Corps who provided escorts for pilots on bombing misisons

300

What regulated the amount of goods a consumer could buy?

Rationing

400

Who was the dictator in Germany during World War II?

Adolf Hitler

400

What prohibited Americans from traveling on the ships of nations at war?

Neutrality Acts

400

Who surprised who at the Battle of the Bulge?

Germany caught the allies by surprise in a counterattack

400

What part did the Navajo soldiers play in the war?

They could communicate in their own language and it could not be broken by the Japanese

400

What was the point of Victory Gardens?

To help ensure an adequate food supply for troops and civilians

500

Whose approach to improve relations through operation and trade was called the "Good Neighbor Policy"?

F.D.R.

500

What laid the foundation for the later creation of the United Nations?

Atlantic Charter

500

What was it called when U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese to march through the jungle for 60 miles?

The Bataan Death March

500

Who created "dollar diplomacy"?

President Taft

500

What did the Office of War Information start to broadcast messages overseas?

Voice of America