World War II Cloze Notes Neutrality • _________________________ foreign policy after WWI • 1934 – ______________________ Act o Could not send ________________ to nations who ________________ on previous war debts • 1935 - ______________________________ o Prohibited sale of ______________ and _______________________ to nations at war • 1937 – _____________________________ o Forbade _______________ ____________________ from loaning __________________ to ___________________ ___________________________ o Must purchase goods with __________________ and carry back on _________________________ Lend-Lease Act • 1941: ____________________ passes law to cancel the old “cash & carry” policy and strengthen the “arsenal of democracy” by SENDING WEAPONS to “any country whose defense was vital to the United States” – $_______________billion worth of weapons Axis Nations and leaders • _________________ led by _____________________________ • _________________ led by _____________________________ • _________________ led by _____________________________ Allied Nations and leaders • _________________ led by _____________________________ • _________________ led by _____________________________
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World War II Cloze NotesNeutrality
• _________________________ foreign policy after WWI
• 1934 – ______________________ Act
o Could not send ________________ to nations who ________________ on previous
war debts
• 1935 - ______________________________
o Prohibited sale of ______________ and _______________________ to nations at
war
• 1937 – _____________________________
o Forbade _______________ ____________________ from loaning
__________________ to ___________________ ___________________________
o Must purchase goods with __________________ and carry back on
_________________________
Lend-Lease Act
• 1941: ____________________ passes law to cancel the old “cash & carry” policy and
strengthen the “arsenal of democracy” by SENDING WEAPONS to “any country whose
defense was vital to the United States”
– $_______________billion worth of weapons
Axis Nations and leaders
• _________________ led by _____________________________
• _________________ led by _____________________________
• _________________ led by _____________________________
Allied Nations and leaders
• _________________ led by _____________________________
• _________________ led by _____________________________
• _________________ led by _____________________________
Pearl Harbor
• _________________________7, 1941
– ______________________ killed; 1,178 injured
– Much of ____________ Pacific navy fleet destroyed
• ___________ calls it “a date which will live in infamy”
• 94% of Americans had been __________________________________________ before the
attack in Hawaii
– After the attack, America changed its mind
• FDR DECLARES WAR ON _________________________________________(but has to
help Britain with Germany first)
Mobilization for WWII
• 5 million American ________________________________________
• Another 10 million _______________________________ (Selective Service)
• 18 million working in ________________________ industries
– Less than 25% hired African Americans
• Weekly paychecks rose ___________________%
• _____________________________________________________________ falls to 1.2%
Rationing
• Office of _______________________ Administration (OPA) set limits on prices, keeping
them ________________________ (slow down the inflation!)
• OPA also set up a system where households received
________________________________ coupons (c-books) to be used for buying such
scarce goods as ______________________, shoes, sugar, coffee, and
______________________________.
War-time Conversion
• War ______________________________________ Board (WPB) said which industries
would switch to wartime production
– Mechanical pencils turned out ________________________________ parts
– ____________________________________ maker made mosquito netting.
– Soft-drink company started filling ________________________________.