2º Bach Sección· The Arsenal of Democracy · Questions

The Arsenal of Democracy · Questions (An Illustrated History of USA pg 105-108)

1-    How was the international situation in the world in the 1930s?

2-    What did the isolationists in the USA think?

3-    What were the Neutrality acts?

4-    When did the Americans realize they could not be isolated anymore?

5-    What was Roosevelt’s Lend Lease Plan?

6-    What meant a disaster for Japan?

7-    What did Japan’s Prime Minister , Hideki Tojo,  intend to do?

8-    What happended on Dec 7, 1941?

9-    Who were the Issei and the Nisei?Was their iinternment in prison camps fair? Why?

10-                      How did the USA organize the economy for the war?

11-                      What was the Manhattan Project?

12-                      What was Churchill’s idea?

13-                      What happened on June 6, 1944?

14-                      What was the Battle of the Bulge?

15-                      Explain the three-pronged attack?

16-                      What did “island hopping” consist of?

17-                      Why didn’t the Americans invade Japan itself when they were ready for it?

18-                      What was the debate in the USA about dropping the atomic bomb? Explain the two sides.