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The Washington conference of 1921

Attempted to prevent a global Naval attempted to prevent a global naval arms race

Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt

Declared United States would remain neutral

The Roosevelt administration refused to issue economic sanctions against Japan prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor

False

The neutrality act of 1935

Included a mandatory arms embargo both sides during any military conflict

In 1929 a fascist lead government was in power in

Italy

The tripartite pact was a defensive at alliance among

Japan Germany and Italy

During the Harding administration the United States

Propose a dramatic reduction in the fleet of the United States Britain and Japan

In 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt quarantine speech

Received a decidedly hostile response by the American people

In 1941 the Atlantic charter

Saw the United States 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

In the election of 1940 Franklin Roosevelt

Selected Henry a Wallace as his new running mate

Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is false

The state department assumed the Japanese would not attack American territory

By 1940 the American ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P Kennedy thought the British cars was hopeful

True

The good neighbor policy of the Roosevelt administration expanded on earlier changes in foreign-policy made by the Hoover administration

True

The killers Briand pact declared war illegal

True

The neutrality acts of the mid-1930s established the US right to use military action to defend any violation of its neutrality

True

In 1938 and/

Was proclaimed by Hitler as he annexed Austria

By the middle of 1940 Germany had defeated

All

The Burke Wadsworth act of 1940

Approved the first peacetime draft in American history

In July 1940 opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public

Believe Germany post a direct threat to the United States

The Hoover administration imposed economic sanctions against Japan ford take over of Manchuria in the early 1930s

False

In 1941 prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States

Do United States failed to join the league of Nations

True

President Franklin Roosevelt made his quarantine speech in an effort to block Hitler take over of Austria

True

Under the Dawes plan do United States lent money to European countries to repay war debts owed to the United States

True

Which of the following statements about the rise of eight off Hitler in Germany is false

Upon coming to power in 1933 Hitler called his new government the Weimar Republic

The America first committee

Was a powerful lobby against the US involvement in the war

The Kellogg Briand pact of 1928

Was signed with wide international claim

President Hoover upheld the Roosevelt corollary to the Monro doctrine

False

President Roosevelt decision to give American destroyers to great Britain was consistent with the cash and carry provisions of the neutrality act

False

The five power packed of 1922 dealt with

Naval armament limitations

All of the following nations were signatories to the five power packed of 1922 except

Russia

Germany begin World War II in Europe by invading Poland shortly after

A nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia

The Dawes plan of 1924

All of the above

In the 1930s President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies that

Establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

The American investor to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plate was already hopeless one

Joseph P Kennedy

In 1941 Germany is declaration of war against the United States

Occurred before the United States cleared war on Germany

In response to the breakout of the Civil War in Spain the US government joined with Britain and France in agreement to

Offer no help to either side

The lend lease plan

Allowed the US to loan weapons to England to be returned when the war was over

The neutrality act of 1937

Allowed warring nations to purchase non-military goods in the United States if they pay cash

In what became known as the 1933 bombshell message Franklin Roosevelt declared that

America would reject any international agreement on currency stabilization

The secretary of state of the Harding administration was

Charles Evans Hughes

President Franklin Roosevelt decision in 1940 to give 50 American destroyers to England

Circumvented the cash and carry provision of the neutrality acts

The Munich conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over

Czechoslovakia

President Roosevelt August 1941 meeting with Winston Churchhill off the coast of Newfoundland lead to a private commitment to use the American military in the war against Hitler

False

President Roosevelt's first response to the war in Europe was request the congress extend a lend lease plan to the ally

False

By the time president Roosevelt run for a third term a significant majority of the American people believed that Nazi Germany post direct military threat to the United States

True

During the 1920s the US banks and corporations were becoming deeply embedded in the daily economic life of Europe

True

During the 1920s the United States played a more active role in global politics than it ever had it's history

True

Lend lease to great Britain lead directly to an American decision to escort convoys of goods across parts of the Atlantic ocean

True