Chapter 16 World War II Review Worksheet - Revere Local Schools

16.1 532 Why did Japan
invade Manchuria?
16.1 532 Why did Japan invade
Manchuria?
16.1 533 Francisco Franco
Japanese troops invade and occupied Manchuria in northeastern China. They did
this because Manchuria was mineral-rich and contained an abundance of
factories. They were seeking new land, resources, and factories because Japans
population had exceeded its land.
To gain “living space” and resources for people.
16.1 533 In 1935 Italy invaded
16.1 533 What foreign countries
were involved in the
Spanish Civil War?
16.1 534 “Good Neighbor”
16.1 534
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N/A
Policy
Analyze how the
Depression affected
the United States
foreign policy.
16.1 534 Kellogg-Brand Pact
Germany and Italy on the side of Franco; the Soviet Union in support of the
Spanish government.
FDR’s policy of not being intrusive to neighbors and just being a “good
neighbor.” Good Neighbor specifically applied to Latin America.
For most of President Roosevelt’s first two terms, he focused on domestic
affairs. The crisis of the Depression brought foreign affairs into the background.
Roosevelt realized that Americans were too involved with the situation at home
to be interested in foreign affairs. For this reason even though Roosevelt
believed that German expansion posed a threat to the United States, he was
cautious in his efforts to alert the nation to this danger.
16.1 534 Allowed the state Department to make treaties with other countries to mutually
lower import duties. Within six years, the United States had reached such
16.1 534 What factors contributed
to Americans’ growing
isolationism?
16.1 534 What forced Franklin
D. Roosevelt to wait
until the bombing of
Pearl Harbor before
entering the war?
16.1 535 Neutrality Acts
agreements with more than a dozen nations.
Evidence that large profits had been made by banks and arms industries during
World War I; regret over having been involved in that war; hatred of militarism.
The general mood of isolationism among Americans forced Roosevelt to follow
a foreign policy based on neutrality. Isolationist forces in Congress were very
strong. Roosevelt could not have entered the war without a declaration of war by
Congress. There was no direct threat to the United States until Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor; before that time, all the fighting took place in Europe, Africa, and
Asia, far from the United States.
16.2 541 Battle of Britain
16.2 541—
N/A
Blackouts
16.2 537 Munich Conference
Cities would turnout their lights because they did not want the lights of the cities
to create a target
16.2 537 Neville Chamberlain
16.2 537 What moves did Germany
make in its quest for
lebensraum?
16.2 538 What was appeasement,
and why did Churchill
oppose it so strongly?
Annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland.
An attempt to do whatever was necessary to pacify Hitler; Churchill saw it as an
abandonment of moral principles that would lead to a war and national disaster.
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