Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.13: The Second World War and the Americas (1933–1945) Questions
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Choose the event that caused a major political crisis in Canada in 1944.
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Discuss the reasons why Brazil moved from neutrality to declaring war on Germany and Italy in 1942.
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Choose the correct year in which President Franklin D Roosevelt launched the Good Neighbor policy.
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Choose the campaign through which African Americans linked the fight against fascism abroad to the fight against racism at home.
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Choose the executive order that authorised the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942.
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Choose the agreement that allowed the US to trade 50 old destroyers for base rights on British territory in 1940.
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Choose the event that directly caused the United States to declare war on Japan in December 1941.
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Examine the reasons why the United States moved from neutrality to full involvement in the Second World War.
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Evaluate the impact of the Good Neighbor policy on relations between the United States and Latin America up to 1942.
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Choose the approximate number of Japanese Canadians interned during the Second World War.
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Compare and contrast the reasons why the United States and Brazil entered the Second World War.
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Analyse the importance of economic factors in shaping US relations with Latin America between 1933 and 1942.
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To what extent was Pearl Harbor the decisive turning point in bringing the United States into the Second World War?
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Examine the role played by inter-American conferences in shaping the Americas' response to the Second World War.
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Choose the date on which Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy.
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Evaluate the claim that Brazil's entry into the Second World War was primarily the result of US economic pressure rather than military provocation.
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Discuss the view that the Good Neighbor policy was driven more by US strategic self-interest than by genuine goodwill towards Latin America.
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Choose the Brazilian president who led Brazil through its shift from neutrality to declaring war in 1942.
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Choose the city that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on first, on 6 August 1945.
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To what extent did economic and military cooperation between the United States and Brazil determine the outcome of the war in the Atlantic theatre?
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