Review Questions

1. Question

   Why did isolationism during the 1930s concern Roosevelt? (“Peacetime Dilemmas”)

2. Question

   How did Roosevelt attempt to balance American isolationism with the military aggression of Germany and Japan in the late 1930s and early 1940s? (“The Onset of War”)

3. Question

   How did the Roosevelt administration mobilize the human and industrial resources necessary to fight a two-front war? (“Mobilizing for War”)

4. Question

   How did the United States seek to counter the Japanese in the Pacific and the Germans in Europe? (“Fighting Back”)

5. Question

   How did the war influence American society? (“The Wartime Home Front”)

6. Question

   Why did Truman elect to use the atomic bomb against Japan? (“Toward Unconditional Surrender”)