Review Questions

1. Why did isolationism during the 1930s concern Roosevelt?
2. How did Roosevelt attempt to balance American isolationism with the military aggression of Germany and Japan in the late 1930s and early 1940s?
3. How did the Roosevelt administration mobilize the human and industrial resources necessary to fight a two-front war?
4. How did the United States seek to counter the Japanese in the Pacific and the Germans in Europe?
5. How did the war influence American society?
6. Why did Truman elect to use the atomic bomb against Japan?