in-class #20: America Enters the War
Read chapter 20, section 4 only ("America Enters the War", pages 702-707 and answer the questions below (also, be able to identify the bold italicized terms):
1. How did President Roosevelt get weapons to Britain, despite the neutrality laws passed by Congress prohibiting loans to countries involved in the war?
2. Once World War II broke out in Europe, most Americans opposed getting involved, wanting the U.S. to stay neutral. Why did isolationists want to stay out of the war?
3. How did the Lend-Lease Act work?
4. What did the Atlantic Charter pledge Allied countries to do once the Axis powers were defeated?
5. What is an embargo and why did the U.S. impose an embargo on Japan?
6. After the Pearl Harbor attack, Germany was not required under the Axis Treaty to declare war on the United States. Why?
7. Why did Adolf Hitler decide to declare war on the U.S., when he wasn't required to by his treaty with Japan to do so?