Reading and Note Taking Study Guide



World War IILesson 2 America Debates InvolvementKey Terms blitzkriegAxis PowersAlliesWinston ChurchillNeutrality Act of 1939Tripartite PactLend-Lease ActAtlantic CharterFranklin D. RooseveltCharles D. LindberghAcademic Vocabularyarsenal: a place where weapons are made or storedbelligerent: aggressive or hostileculminate: to reach the end or final resultevaluate: to judge or find the value of somethinginvincible: impossible to defeat or overcomeLesson ObjectivesUnderstand the course of the early years of World War II in Europe.Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign policy in the mid-1930s and the great debate between interventionists and isolationists.Explain how the United States became more involved in the conflict.Roosevelt Criticizes Acts of War: Text1.Draw Conclusions Why were other nations, including the United States, threatened by the Japanese attack on China? Use the photos as well as the text as evidence. 2.Determine Author’s Point of View Read the paragraph from President Roosevelt’s Quarantine speech. Explain his metaphor of creating a quarantine. Does Roosevelt think this quarantine will protect the United States? War Breaks Out in Europe: Text3.Cite Evidence What evidence supports the idea that the German blitzkrieg was successful? 4.Identify Cause and Effect Read the quote from Winston Churchill after the evacuation from Dunkirk. What effect did this speech have on the Germans and the British? 5.Integrate Information from Diverse Sources How did the people of Britain keep up their morale during the events at the beginning of World War II? Use diverse sources, including quotes and photographs, to explain. American Reaction Is Divided: Text6. Categorize As you read “American Reaction Is Divided,” use the graphic organizer below to identify the arguments in the debate between the isolationists and the interventionists.7.Identify Supporting Details What steps did the United States take that indicated it was preparing for war? Explain. America Moves Closer to War: Text8.Draw Inferences Why did the United States and Britain agree that their priority was defeating Germany, then Japan? 9.Draw Conclusions How did the Lend-Lease Act and the Atlantic Charter move the United States away from neutrality? pare Authors’ Treatment of Similar Topics Roosevelt declared the ideals he felt Americans should fight for in his “Four Freedoms” speech. In the Atlantic Charter, Churchill and Roosevelt outlined their vision for the post-war world. What do these two documents have in common? ................
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