Chapter 34

Question 0

As a result of Franklin Roosevelt’s unwillingness to support the London Conference,

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the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened

Question 1

Franklin Roosevelt refused to support the London Economic Conference because

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any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurt America’s recovery from depression

Question 2

One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was

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the formal recognition of the Soviet Union

Question 3

Roosevelt’s recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

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in hopes of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and German

Question 4

In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the U.S. was motivated by

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the realization that the islands were economic liabilities

Question 5

Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because

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he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against European and Asian dictators

Question 6

As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt

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withdrew American marines from Haiti

Question 7

The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

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Increased America’s foreign trade

Question 8

President Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign-trade policy

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lowered tariffs to increase trade

Question 9

Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by

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retreating into isolationism

Question 10

Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini’s vision of ______________, Hitler’s invasion of _______________, and Franco’s overthrow of the republican government of __________________.

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Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Spain

Question 11

By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to

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forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum

Question 12

Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the U.S. resulted in all of the following except

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balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. allies by trading with neither

Question 14

The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,

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Americans would be prohibited from sailing on the ships of the warring nations

Question 15

From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequence:

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embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease

Question 16

America’s neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 allowed

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Spain to become a fascist dictatorship

Question 17

Franklin Roosevelt’s sensational “Quarantine Speech” resulted in

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a wave of protest by isolationists

Question 18

In September 1938 in Munich, German,

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Britain and France consented to Germany’s taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Question 19

In 1938 the British and French brought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference at the expense of

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Czechoslovakia

Question 20

Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union,

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Germany invaded Poland and started World War II

Question 21

The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty was

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Poland

Question 22

Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler’s Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?

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Finland

Question 23

All of the following factors contributed to the weaknesses and lateness of America’s efforts to aid Europe’s threatened Jews except

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the belief that most Jews would be better off migrating to Israel

Question 24

The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that

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bombing would divert essential military resources

Question 25

. During World War II, the U.S. saved ________________ Jews from Nazism.

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only a small number

Question 26

Congress’s first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

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pass a conscription law

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America’s neutrality effectively ended when

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France fell to Germany

Question 28

In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the U.S.

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eight valuable naval bases

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By 1940 American public opinion began to favor

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providing Britain with “all aid short of war”

Question 30

The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was

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Wendell L. Willkie

Question 31

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his

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belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis

Question 32

The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except

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another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases trade

Question 33

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the U.S.

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made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets

Question 34

The Atlantic Charter, developed by the U.S. and Britain, was also endorsed by

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the Soviet Union

Question 35

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,

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Congress allowed the arming of U.S. merchant vessels

Question 36

Japan believed that it was forced into war with the U.S. because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan

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leave China

Question 37

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because

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President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaya or the Philippines

Question 38

On the even of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans

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still wanted to keep the U.S. out of war

Question 39

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin non-aggression treaty.

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A, C, B

Question 40

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union

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A, C, B