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11.2 FROM NEUTRALITY TO WAR
Pages 271-275
1) What events persuaded many Americans to favor neutrality?
2. Why was the Nye Committee established in 1934?
3.What was the result of the Nye Committee's findings?
4.What did the Neutrality Act of 1935 forbid?
5.Who belonged to the Axis Powers?
6) How did requiring other countries to send their own ships to the United State to buy goods help maintain the
neutrality of the United States?
7) What steps did supporters of the United States isolationism take to ensure that the country remained neutral in an
international conflict?
8. The ______________________________ Act allowed the U.S. to send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to
return them or pay rent for them when the war ended.
9) Under which policy did the U.S. military first become involved, indirectly, in the war?
10. Talks between Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 resulted in the ______________________________, which
committed the two leaders to a postwar world of democracy and non-aggression.
11. In presenting his "Four Freedoms," what was President Roosevelt trying to do?
12) What indications were there that public opinion was shifting away from American isolationism?
13. What did the Neutrality Act of 1939 allow the Allies to do?
14. What is internationalism?
15. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, what were the United States’ and Germany’s responses?