Chapter 26 - Interwar Diplomacy and World War II

Question 1

What was the Opinion on the US’s involvement in the Great War during the 1920s?

Answer 1

Needless and Fruitless Intervention.

Question 2

Why were Americans disillusioned over US participation in the Great War?

Answer 2

1) The Distasteful Postwar Treaty Fight - America Died But Achieved no Significant Tangible Benefits
2) Americans Realized They Had Been Duped By British Propaganda
3) The common belief was that big businessmen pushed them into war to make a profit

Question 3

List Examples of US pacifism during this era.

Answer 3

1) Sinking of Warships and Tonnage Limits

2) The Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 4

List Examples of US Isolationism during this time.

Answer 4

1) High Trade Barriers - Smoot-Hawley
2) Restrained Foreign Policy in Latin America.
3) The Neutrality Act to Prevent the Sale of Arms to All Parties in a War

Question 5

What were Germany’s five demands in regard to the Versailles treaty?

Answer 5

1) It Sought to Rearm and Rebuild its Military
2) It Sought to Remilitarize the Rhineland
3) Sought to Absorb Austria Into Germany
4) South to Reabsorb Western Czechoslovakia into Germany
5) Sought to expand Eastward into Poland, Hungary, and Romania

Question 6

Where did Britain and France stop appeasing Germany and draw the line?

Answer 6

The Invasion of Poland

Question 7

Why did the US resolve not to get involved in WW2?

Answer 7

1. Memory of the Great War
2. Public Opinion Was Against Proactive Policy in Europe
3. No One Knew Just How Conquest Oriented the Nazis Were
4. All of Germany’s Actions Could be Explained Away as Revisions to the Versailles Treaty.
5. Americans Were not Persuaded a Triumphant Germany was a Threat
6. No One Suspected the Final Solution

Question 8

How did the War act as a catalyst for social change?

Answer 8

1) Ethnic and Racial Discrimination Diminished
2) Military Service Created the Seed for the Modern Civil Rights Movement
3) Sowed the Seeds of the Feminist Movement
4) Changed How Americans Understood the Role of Government.
5) The Economic Boom That Followed the War Was “Proof” that Keynesian Economics Worked
6) Japanese-American Citizens Suffered Social Injustices
7) The South and West Were Integrated Into the United States.

Question 9

What are the main major consequences of the war?

Answer 9

1) Economic Prosperity that Ended the Great Depression
2) The War Devastated Europe and Japan but left the US Unscathed
3) The Greenhouse for Starting the Coldwar
4) Created the USSR and US as the two global hegemony
5) Marked the End of US Hesitancy at Getting involved in foreign relations
6) End of US Hesitancy at Managing the Global Economy