USA HISTORY

The United States became involved in World War II primarily because

(A) Germany refused to pay its debts from World War I

(B) European democracies supported United States policies toward Germany and Japan

(C) President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not enforce the Neutrality Acts

(D) ** the Japanese empire bombed the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Concept note-1: -Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States.

Concept note-2: -When Hitler marched into neighboring Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland, it prompted joint declarations of war from two of America’s closest allies, Great Britain and France. But the U.S. remained stubbornly neutral, bound by Congress not to lend aid or assistance to any “belligerents” in the European conflict.

Concept note-3: -Japanese Plane Bombs Oregon Coast Oregon made national headlines a few months later in two incidents that went down as the first aerial bombing of the United States mainland by a foreign power. Again the Japanese submarine I-25 was the source of the trouble.

Concept note-4: -For two years before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into World War II in December 1941, the nation had been on the edges of the global conflict.