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"...a date which
will live in infamy
...an unprovoked
and dastardly
attack!"
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What did FDR call “. . . a date which will live in infamy . . . an unprovoked and dastardly attack”?
What is December 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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What was the name of the nations that were united in fighting Germany, Italy, and Japan?
What is the Allies
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On December 7, 1941—during the peace talks—what did Japan do?
What is attacked the main U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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In Japan, expansionists had long dreamed of creating what?
What is a huge empire.
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What tradition did FDR break when he ran for re-election in 1940?
What is to run for election a third time
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In 1939, what provision was added to the Neutrality Acts?
What is a cash-and-carry provision
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Who was the militant general who became the new prime minister of Japan?
What is Hideki Tojo.
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Who declared war on the US after the US declared war on Japan?
What is Germany and Italy
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What prevented the US from entering WWII?
What is the Neutrality Acts
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What is the term for an arrangement or preparation before hand?
What is a provision.
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How did the Americans know that Japan was preparing for a military strike?
What is the U.S.broke Japan’s secret communications code.
300
In June 1941, FDR gave American warships permission to attack German U-boats under what condition?
What is self-defense.
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What did FDR mean when he said that America would be “the great arsenal of democracy”?
What is that the US would supply weapons to democratic countries at war as a way to preserve American political beliefs in the world.
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Two-part Question- a. In 1940, who signed a mutual defense treaty. b. What was the name of their alliance?
What is a. Germany, Italy and Japan b. the Axis powers.
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Two-part question a) When Japan invaded Indochina, what did the US cut off with Japan? b) What American resource did Japan need?
What is a) trade b) oil
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On September 4, 1941, after a German U-boat fired on an American merchant ship, what did FDR order the U.S. Navy to do?
What is FDR ordered the U.S. Navy to fire on German ships on sight.
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What problem did the mutual defense treaty signed by Germany, Italy and Japan create for the U.S.?
What is If the US went to war against any one of them it would have to have to fight on two fronts: in Europe and in Asia.
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In what earlier war did the U.S. gain islands in the Pacific including the Philippines?
What is the Spanish-American War
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Japan began creating an empire by seizing Asian territory held by whom? As what?
What is Asian territory held as colonies by European nations.
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After September 4, 1941, what did the Senate finally allow for merchant ships?
What is The Senate allowed the arming of merchant ships.
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What two steps did Congress take to prepare for war?
What is a) increased spending for national defense. b) It passed the nation’s first peacetime draft in September 1940.
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Three-part question - a) What could Britain and France purchase as a result of the “cash and carry” provision? b) What were the conditions? c) Why were these conditions established?
What is a) It would allow Britain and France to buy military equipment? b) they had to pay cash and transported arms themselves. c) if these countries were in debt to the US, they might side with them in the war to gain repayment; if US ships were attacked transporting arms, the US might get pulled into the conflict
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Two-part question - a) In August 1941, what did FDR and Churchill sign? b) What were two important goals of this agreement?
What is a) the Atlantic Charter b)protecting peoples’ rights to choose their own form of government and building a secure peace.
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Two part question- a) What law did FDR propose, because Britain could no longer pay for arms and supplies? b) Who opposed?
What is a) Lend-Lease Act b) Isolationists
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Two-part question- a) Which former ally did Germany invade? b) How did the US respond?
What is a) Soviet Union b) the US gave Lend-Lease support to the Soviets