Chapter 34 Flashcards
As a result of Franklin Roosevelt’s unwillingness to support the London Conference,
the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened
Franklin Roosevelt refused to support the London Economic Conference because
any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurt America’s recovery from depression
One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was
the formal recognition of the Soviet Union
Roosevelt’s recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly
in hopes of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and German
In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the U.S. was motivated by
the realization that the islands were economic liabilities
Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because
he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against European and Asian dictators
As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt
withdrew American marines from Haiti
The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Increased America’s foreign trade
President Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign-trade policy
lowered tariffs to increase trade
Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by
retreating into isolationism
Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini’s vision of ______________, Hitler’s invasion of _______________, and Franco’s overthrow of the republican government of __________________.
Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Spain
By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum
Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the U.S. resulted in all of the following except
balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. allies by trading with neither
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,
Americans would be prohibited from sailing on the ships of the warring nations
From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequence:
embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease
America’s neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 allowed
Spain to become a fascist dictatorship
Franklin Roosevelt’s sensational “Quarantine Speech” resulted in
a wave of protest by isolationists
In September 1938 in Munich, German,
Britain and France consented to Germany’s taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
In 1938 the British and French brought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference at the expense of
Czechoslovakia
Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union,
Germany invaded Poland and started World War II
The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty was
Poland
Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler’s Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?
Finland
All of the following factors contributed to the weaknesses and lateness of America’s efforts to aid Europe’s threatened Jews except
the belief that most Jews would be better off migrating to Israel
The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that
bombing would divert essential military resources
. During World War II, the U.S. saved ________________ Jews from Nazism.
only a small number
Congress’s first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to
pass a conscription law
America’s neutrality effectively ended when
France fell to Germany
In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the U.S.
eight valuable naval bases
By 1940 American public opinion began to favor
providing Britain with “all aid short of war”
The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was
Wendell L. Willkie
Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his
belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis
The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except
another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases trade
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the U.S.
made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets
The Atlantic Charter, developed by the U.S. and Britain, was also endorsed by
the Soviet Union
After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,
Congress allowed the arming of U.S. merchant vessels
Japan believed that it was forced into war with the U.S. because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan
leave China
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because
President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaya or the Philippines
On the even of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans
still wanted to keep the U.S. out of war
Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin non-aggression treaty.
A, C, B
Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union
A, C, B
