USA HISTORY

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress in January 1941 and advised that the European countries engaged in WWII needed weapons and assistance. Critics of his stance best described his policy as?

(A) supporting involvement in international organizations would infringe on U.S. sovereignty

(B) promoting open immigration policies would counteract U.S. foreign alliances

(C) ** sending weapons to other countries would violate U.S. neutrality

(D) implementing tariffs on weapons would hurt the U.S. economy

Concept note-1: -He sought to emphasize the historic nature of the events at Pearl Harbor, implicitly urging the American people never to forget the attack and memorialize its date. The term “day of infamy” has become widely used by the media to refer to any moment of supreme disgrace or evil.

Concept note-2: -President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a state of unlimited national emergency in response to Nazi Germany’s threats of world domination on May 27, 1941. In a speech on this day, he repeated his famous remark from a speech he made in 1933 during the Great Depression: the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Concept note-3: -Roosevelt supervised the mobilization of the U.S. economy to support the war effort and implemented a Europe first strategy, initiating the Lend-Lease program and making the defeat of Germany first a priority over that of Japan.

Concept note-4: -Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States."