Chapter 34

Question 1

London conference of 1933

Answer 1

Wanted exchange-rate stabilization to revive international trade
Roosevelt Backed out of the conference

Question 2

Tyding’s-McDuffie Act of 1934

Answer 2

Provided Philippine independence after 12 period of economic and political mentoring (1946)

Question 3

Pam-American Conference in 1933

Answer 3

Non-intervention and good neighbor policy in Latin America.
Dismissed the Big Stick
Marines left Haiti
Ended Platt Amendment

Question 4

Sec. of State Cordell Hull

Answer 4

Low tariffs -> higher trade

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

Question 5

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

Answer 5

Set up low-tariff policies with 21 countries

Aimed at relief and recovery

Question 6

Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)

Answer 6

Germany and Italy alliance agreement

Question 7

Tripartite Act of 1940

Answer 7

Japan joins axis powers

Ignores Washington Naval Treaty

Question 8

Johnson Debt Default Act

Answer 8

Forbade countries that owed money to the U.S. from getting any more loans

Question 9

Nye Committee

Answer 9

Investigated munition manufacturer’s profits

Believed that munition manufacturer’s cause the war to earn more profit

Question 10

Neutrality Acts of 1935,36, and 37

Answer 10

Could not sail on belligerent ships, sell munitions, or make loans to belligerents

Question 11

Quarantine Speech (1937)

Answer 11

Response to Japanese invasion of China

Asked Americans to quarantine it’s aggressors and to morally side against them.

Question 12

How did Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 12

Mandatory military service

Marching troops into Rhineland

Question 13

Munich Conference (1938)

Answer 13

Response to Hitler taking Sudetenland
Neville Chamberlain wanted appeasement with Germany
“Peace in our time”
Hitler later took all of Czechoslovakia

Question 14

Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1939

Answer 14

Stalin and Hitler promised not to fight each other

Hitler could now attack Poland without fear of Soviet intervention

Question 15

Neutrality Act of 1939

Answer 15

Response to WWII in Europe
Wanted to help Britain and France while remaining neutral
U.S. would sell war goods on a “cash-and-carry” basis
Britain and France ships in Atlantic kept out Germans

Question 16

“Phony war”

Answer 16

Period in which Germany moved troops from Poland to France, ending when Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, and then Netherlands and Belgium.
They then attacked France

Question 17

Attack on France in 1940

Answer 17

Maginot Line prepared for German invasion
Germany chose alternate route thru Belgium
Some allies escape thru English Channel (“Miracle at Dunkirk)
France surrenders

Question 18

Selective Service and Training Act of 1940

Answer 18

1st peace-time draft in history

Question 19

America First Committee

Answer 19

Isolationist propaganda

Charles Lindbergh

Question 20

Defend America by Aiding the Allies

Answer 20

Mild-interventionist propaganda

Question 21

Destroyer Deal of 1940

Answer 21

America gave Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for 8 defensive bases in the Americas

Question 22

Havana Conference (1940)

Answer 22

Response to fear of German involvement in the Americas

21 American countries agreed to keep Monroe Doctrine

Question 23

Fight for Freedom Committee

Answer 23

Interventionist propaganda

Repeal all neutrality acts

Question 24

Lend-Lease Act of 1941

Answer 24

Numbered 1776
Lend or lease limitless supply of arms to the victims of aggression
“ An Act Further to Promote the Defense of the United States.”
“ Arsenal of Democracy”

Question 25

Atlantic Conference (1941)

Answer 25

Response to German invasion of Russia
Churchill and FDR
Atlantic Charter

Question 26

Atlantic Charter (1941)

Answer 26

1-democracy and self-determination
2-nonaggression and disarmament
3-free trade
4-economic advancement 
5-freedom of the seas
6-peace-keeping organizations
Isolationists disagreed

Question 27

Greer

Answer 27

U.S. destroyer attacked by Germans

Reason for FDR’s shoot-on-sight policy