APUSH ch. 25
The secretary of state of the Harding administration was
Charles Evans Hughes
The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over
Czechoslovakia
In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in
Italy
In 1934, US-Soviet relations soured in part because the US demonstrated little interest in stopping the expansion of
Japan
The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among
Japan, Germany, and Italy
The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was
Joseph Kennedy
By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated
Norway; France; Denmark; the Netherlands; (all these answers are correct)
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the US
All of the following nations were signatories to the Five-Power Pact of 1922 EXCEPT
Russia
Germany began WWII in Europe days after
a nonaggressive pact was signed between Germany and Russia
In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan
allowed the US to loan weapons to England, to be returned or paid for when the war was over
The Neutrality Act of 1937
allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the US if they paid cash
The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940
approved the first peacetime draft in American history
The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with
armament limitations
The Washington Conference of 1921
attempted to prevent a global naval arms race
The Dawes Plan of 1924
called for Britain and France to reduce the amount of German reparation payments; called for both the US to lend $ to Germany to meet its reparation payments, and Britain and France to reduce the amount of German reparation payments; was designed to help England and France make their debt payments to the US; called for the US to lend $ to Germany to meet its reparation payments; (all these answers are correct)
President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England
circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts
Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt
declared the US would remain neutral
The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James
essentially triggering an American naval war against Germany; led Congress to approve American ships sailing into belligerent ports; led Congress to approve both the arming of American merchant ships and the sailing of American ships into belligerent ports; led Congress to approve the arming of American merchant ships; (all these answers are correct)
In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies that
established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"
expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover
The Neutrality Act of 1935
included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict
During the Harding administration, the US
proposed a dramatic reduction in the fleets of the US, Britain, and Japan
in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech
received a decidedly hostile response by the American people
In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover
repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
In 1941, the Atlantic Charter
saw the US and England claim to share common principles
During the 1920s and 1930s, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy
seemed to grow in the US as it became apparent that Italy would invade Ethiopia
By September 1941,
the US extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union
Which of the following statements about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany is FASLE?
upon coming to power in 1933, Hitler called his new government "the Weimar Republic"
The America First Committee
was a powerful lobby against US involvement in the war
In 1938, Anschluss
was proclaimed by Hitler
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
was signed with wide international acclaim
The Munich agreement of 1938
was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt