1. World War II Begins

2. Practice Questions
1. “With malice toward none; with charity for all… let us strive… to bind up the nation’s wounds…”
This statement expressed President Abraham Lincoln’s plans for –
Creating a strategy for a Union victory
Eliminating Jim Crow laws
Convincing Congress to abolish slavery
Readmitting the Confederate states
2. One major economic impact of the Civil War was the –
Emergence of the South as a manufacturing center
Increase in the number of laborers relocating to the South
Strengthening of the North and Midwest industrial regions
Increase in tariffs imposed on French and British goods

3. Practice Questions 3. How did the Civil War impact African Americans?
They were able to enlist to fight in the war
They gained equality in education and government
Slavery continued long after the war ended
Jim Crow laws were outlawed through the country
4. What role did Ulysses S. Grant serve after the Civil War?
President of Washington College
President of the United States
Ambassador to Haiti
Speaker of the House

4. Practice Questions
1. What law offered free land in the west to anyone who would cultivate the land for a minimum five years?
Tenant Farming Act
Homestead Act
Headright Act
Freeman’s Act
2. What is the name of the immigrant processing center located in New York Harbor?
Long Island
Chincoteague Island
Ellis Island
Angel Island

5. Practice Questions 3. In a laissez-faire economy, the government –
Keeps out of the affairs of business
Opposes private businesses
Regulates all business
Gives aid to businesses
4.Henry Ford had an impact on the United States economy by –
Reorganizing factories to make it difficult for unions
Creating corporations to produce goods more efficiently
Supporting immigration as a source of labor for factories
Improving manufacturing to make goods more affordable

6. Adolf Hitler created the fascist state of Nazi Germany
Hideki Tojo became the imperial Prime Minister of Japan
Joseph Stalin became the Communist dictator of the Soviet Union (Russia)
Benito Mussolini became the fascist leader of Italy

7. Common Themes of These Dictators
Held power by force and fear
Passed laws to forbid political competition
Appealed to people’s pride and prejudices
All suffering from hard economic times after WWI

8. What caused America’s gradual abandonment of its policy of neutrality?
Essential Questions
How did the United States respond to increasing totalitarian aggression in Europe and Asia?
What caused America’s gradual abandonment of its policy of neutrality?

9. America’s Attempts to Stay Neutral
Congress passed Neutrality Acts in 1935
“America First” was the catchphrase of isolationism!
How does this artist feel about the isolationists?

10. The War Begins WW II began with Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939.
The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east.
Hitler’s and Stalin’s Non- Aggression Pact kept them from fighting each other.
France and Britain entered the war to defend Poland.

12. The War in Europe
During the first two years of World War II, the United States stayed officially neutral as Nazi Germany overran France, most of Europe, and attacked Britain from the air during the Battle of Britain.
Hitler in Paris, June 23, France fell to the Nazi blitzkrieg in less than a month.

13. Hitler’s Biggest Mistake
In mid-1941, Hitler turned on his former partner Joseph Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union.

14. The United States gradually abandoned neutrality as events in Europe and Asia pulled the nation toward war.

15. America Helps the Allies
Despite strong isolationist sentiment at home, the United States increasingly helped Britain. It gave Britain war supplies and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean.

16. America Helps the Allies
Soon after, the Lend-Lease Act gave the President the authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the Axis powers.
Franklin Roosevelt made fun of the Lend-Lease Act, saying it’s like "lending a garden hose to a next-door neighbor whose house is on fire".

18. The War in Asia
During the 1930s, a militaristic Japan invaded and brutalized Manchuria and China as it sought military and economic domination over Asia.
The United States refused to recognize Japanese conquests in Asia and imposed an embargo (ban) on exports of oil and steel to Japan.
Tensions rose but both countries negotiated to avoid war.

19. The Attack on America
While negotiating with the U.S. and without any warning, Japan carried out a surprise air attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
The attack destroyed much of the American Pacific fleet and killed several thousand Americans.

20. The Attack on America
Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan, December 8, 1941.
President Franklin Roosevelt called the attack on Pearl Harbor "a date that will live in infamy" as he asked Congress to declare war on Japan.

22. America Joins World War II
After Pearl Harbor, Hitler honored a pact with Japan and declared war on the United States. The debates over isolationism in the United States were over. World War II was now a true world war, and the United States was fully involved. Nearly half a million Americans will lose their lives in World War II.