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America Goes to War: The Homefront While Storm Clouds Gather-Episode 1 1.

The narrator said that the USA was isolated from the rest of the world by what? ___________________________________________________ 2. Adolf Hitler confirmed an American belief that Europe is addicted to ________? 3. The New York Worlds Fair was dedicated by FDR in what year?__________ 4. In 1939, Japan was pushing in to what country?___________________ 5. Every American movie theater showed a ___________ reel. 6. What country did France and Great Britain say they would defend from Hitlers advances?____________________________ 7. Hitler made a secret deal with who?____________________________ 8. Many Americans did not trust what country?_____________________ 9. How many families were surviving on incomes of $300-$400 a year? ______________________ 10. Name two activities shown in the video that occur during the song with the lyrics Dipsy Doodle. ____________________________________________________ 11. George the ________ was king of Great Britain when they declared war on Germany. 12. In FDRs speech after WWII began in Europe, he said There will be no _______________ of peace in the United States 13. What category of posters are shown after FDRs speech?_______________ 14. What sport did Lou Gehrig play before he contracted Loud Gehrigs disease? _________________ 15. There was little or no support for _____________________ in the United States

16. Looking at the radio microphones, what two radio networks appear? ________________________ 17. What device reported events from Europe to Americans?__________________ 18. What allied country did Adolf Hitler capture in 1940?_____________________ 19. Radio entertainment had taught Americans to ____________________ what words described. 20. One isolationist slogan was America ______________, Last, and Foremost. 21. Isolationist groups agreed that America should be willing to prepare to defend ______________________. 22. Congress approved Americas first peace time _________________. 23. In November of 1941, what country sent diplomats to the US?_______________ 24. The attack on Pearl Harbor ended the great American _______________. 25. What event is shown during the song God Bless America? ___________________________________________________ 26. WWII changed the ways Americans worked and played, even the way they ___________________.

KEY: 1. Two Oceans 2. War 3. 1939 4. China 5. News 6. Poland 7. Stalin 8. Great Britain 9. 4 Million 10. Possible Answers: science experiments, entertainment scenes, boxing, swimming, motorcycle tricks, swing dancing, a monkey playing with a block of ice. 11. 6th (VI) 12. Blackout 13. Movie 14. Baseball 15. Japan 16. CBS, NBC 17. Radio 18. France 19. Imagine 20. First 21. Themselves 22. Draft 23. Japan 24. Debate 25. Attack on Pearl Harbor 26. Thought

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