Chapter 7 Historians

Question 1

FDR’s inaction

Answer 1

Didn’t do anything/enough to help

Question 2

FDR’s Action

Answer 2

He did as much as was possible

Question 3

David Wyman

Answer 3

Inaction
Should have bombed Auschwitz
Knew about mass murders for 14 months
Only acted because of political pressure

The Abandonment of the Jews

Question 4

Willian O’Neil

Answer 4

Inaction
Worst violator of human rights
Racist and anti-Semitic

A Democracy at War

Question 5

Beir and Josepher

Answer 5

Inaction
Trying to prevent unwanted immigration

Roosevelt and the Holocaust

Question 6

Author Schulzinger

Saul Friedman

Answer 6

Inaction
War dept. should have acted
Acted on public opinion
US public was selfish

American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

Question 7

Rubinstein

Answer 7

Doesn’t fit
Plans wouldn’t have saved Hews
Inaction/action doesn’t matter

The myth of rescue

Question 8

Henry Fiengald

Answer 8

Action
Many factors
Nazis were desperate to be rid of Jews and FDR faced problems

The politics of rescue

Question 9

R. Dallek

Answer 9

Action
FDR saw problems and addressed them
No way to rescue great numbers

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign policy

Question 10

Goodwin and Rosen

Answer 10

Could only liberate by winning war

Stop Hitler -> save Jews