US History Chapter 17 Sections 3 and 4
Neutrality Acts
1939 laws designed to keep the United States out of future wars
Lend-Lease Act
1941 law that authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security
Burma Road
A 700-mile-long highway linking Burma (present-day Myanmar) to China
America First Committee
A group formed in the 1940s by isolationists to block further aid to Britain
Puppet State
A supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor
Who declared war on 1941?
America
The America First Committee opposed
American aid to Britain's war effort.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
As announced in 1940 by Japan's prime minister, the area extending from Manchuria to the Dutch East Indies in which Japan would expand its influence
By the time the United States entered the war in 1941,
Germany had conquered most of Europe.
Why did Roosevelt ask Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act?
He asked them to pass this act so that he can begin to send aid to Britain.
Which country attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
Japan
What was Japan's real goal?
Japan needed the region's natural resources, especially oil and rubber, to carry on its war against China.
Why was Japan unable to win the war in China?
Mao Zedong's Chinese guerrilla fighters dominated the countryside.
The United States entered World War II after
Pearl Harbor was attacked
How was the conquest of Manchuria different from Germany's invasion of Poland?
Poland had a standing alliance with Britain and France whereas China had no alliances.
How was this invasion different from Germany's invasion of Poland?
Poland had a standing alliance with Britain and France whereas China had no alliances.
In your own words, describe relations between Japan and the United States before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Relations between Japan and the United States cut trading with each other and stopped Japan from expanding. Also, American technicians had cracked a top-secret Japanese code which led to Pearl harbor.
Manchurian Incident
Situation in 1931 when Japanese troops, claiming that Chinese soldiers had tried to blow up a railway line, took matters into their own hands by capturing several southern Manchurian cities, and by continuing to take over the country even after Chinese troops had withdrawn.
Who among the Japanese was responsible for the conquest of Manchuria?
The Japanese government and the army was responsible.
Did they succeed in keeping the United States neutral? Why or why not?
The Neutrality Acts prevented the United States from selling arms even to nations that were trying to defend themselves from aggression. By doing this, as FDR pointed out later, the Neutrality Acts encouraged aggression.
What was required by the Neutrality Acts?
The first of these, in 1935, banned the United States from providing weapons to nations at war. The second, in 1936, banned loans to such nations. The third, in 1937, permitted trade with fighting nations in nonmilitary goods as long as those nations paid cash and transported the cargo themselves.
According to Japan, what was the purpose of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
To liberate Asia from European colonizers.
Pearl Harbor is a
U.S. Navy base in the Pacific.
Cash and Carry
World War II policy requiring nations at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods and to be responsible for transporting the goods from the United States
During the early 1930s, Japan began a policy of
aggression against China and throughout Asia
General Jiang Jieshi
leader of the Chinese Nationalist army
When Japan invaded Manchuria, it created a puppet state, or a
supposedly independent nation under the control of a powerful neighbor.
One of the reasons for American isolationism in the 1930s was
the domestic economic situation.
the Japanese saw the acquisition of Manchuria as a solution to what problems
they lacked the land needed to feed their rising population and the raw materials and markets needed to power the economy
