HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Passing a series of neutrality laws
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Officially recognizing the existence of the Soviet Union
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Establishing the Good Neighbor Policy with European nations
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Forgiving the German reparations incurred during World War I
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Detailed explanation-1: -Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts in the late 1930s, aiming to prevent future involvement in foreign wars by banning American citizens from trading with nations at war, loaning them money, or traveling on their ships.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Japanese attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, led President Franklin Roosevelt to declare war on Japan. A few days later, Nazi Germany declared war on the United States, and America entered World War II against the Axis powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The United States wanted to remain neutral because after WWI, most European nations refused to pay their debts. Because arms factories made so much money during the war, many Americans felt they had steered the country into war. The U.S. tried to remain neutral, but the British needed help.
Detailed explanation-5: -The economic dimension of war Implementing the American strategy for the Second World War required that the United States aid the Allies, create massive ground and amphibious forces, inaugurate a huge shipbuilding effort, support two strategic bombing campaigns, and project military power across two oceans.