The Road Toward War
The United States tried to avoid interfering in foreign affairs, a policy known as...
isolationism
The president in office during the majority of World War 2.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
The last straw that led to the U.S. entering WW2.
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
These acts passed between 1935 and 1937 were made to prevent the US from becoming entangled in European conflicts.
Neutrality Acts
In World War 2, this major event caused 80% of Americans to favor assisting Britain in some way rather than staying neutral.
Surrender of France, Battle of Britain
Atlantic Charter
The committee named after the senator who chaired them which blamed manufacturers, arms dealers, and bankers for the outbreak of WW1.
Nye Committee
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 required men of a certain age group to...
register for the draft
The contract that created a mutual defense agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Tripartite Contract
Name at least four territories or countries that Hitler or Mussolini controlled/invaded by 1939.
The Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia
German submarines began sinking US ships after FDR extended patrols in the North Atlantic to protect...
British ships with American supplies
FDR said this memorable quote in his speech the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
"A date which will live in infamy..." - FDR