What was the immediate event that started World War II? - correct answer ✔✔Germany's invasion of
Poland on September 1, 1939
Germany encountered no successful resistance from any European country until it sought to defeat
which country? - correct answer ✔✔Britain
Although officially neutral, the United States increasingly helped Britain through actions such as what? -
correct answer ✔✔The Lend-Lease Act
Who did Japan seek to invade after aligning itself with Germany and Italy? - correct answer
✔✔Manchuria
What did the standoff in negotiations between the United States and Japan involve? - correct answer
✔✔trading oil and steel for nonaggression in Asia
What was the statement "A date which will live in infamy" by President Roosevelt describing? - correct
answer ✔✔bombing of Peal Harbor by Japan
What was the principal war strategy that the United States and her allies agreed to pursue? - correct
answer ✔✔defeat Hitler first
Why was defeating Germany in North Africa important? - correct answer ✔✔establish a military route to
Europe through Italy, provide military experience for untested American troops, eliminate one route
Germany could use to attack Russia.
What was the main reason that the Soviet Union became an ally of Britain and the United States? -
correct answer ✔✔The Soviet Union was attacked by Germany in spite of her 10-year Nonaggression
Pact.
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