Chapter 25 The Global Crisis, 1921-1941

By the mid 1940's Germany had defeated

All of these are correct (Norway, Denmark, France, and the Netherlands

The Dawes Plan of 1924

All these answers are correct

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 what became known as the 1933 "bombshell message" Roosevelt declared that

America would reject any international agreement on currency stabilization

President Roosevelet's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned

Europe

As part of his foreign policy, President Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from

Haiti

In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in

Italy

In 1934, the Soviet Union complained that the US had little interest in stopping the expansion of

Japan

The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance between

Japan, Germany and Italy

The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was

Joseph Kennedy

In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

President Roosevelt froze all Japanese assests in the US

All of the following nations were signatories to the Five Power Pact of 1922 except

Russia

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

The State Dept assumed the Japanese would never attack American interests

Which of the statemetns about the rise of Adolf Hiltler in Germany is False?

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

Germany began World War II in Europe days after

a non aggession pact was signed between Germany and Russia

In 1937, after Japanese pilots sand the US gunboat Panay in China, President Roosevelt

accepted Japans claim that the bombing had been an accident

The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James

all of these answers are correct (triggered an American naval campaign against Germany, led Congress to approve the arming of American merchant ships, led Congress to approve American ships sailing into belligerent ports)

In 1940, 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 nonmilitary goods in the US if they paid cash

The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940

approved the first peactiime 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

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

believed Germany posed a direct threat to the US

In 1940, Presidnet Roosevelt's decision to give fifty American destroyers to England

both circimvented the cash and carry provision of the Neutrality Acts

Follwoing the outbeak of war in Europe in 1939, President Roosevelt

declared that the US would remain neutral

In the 1930's President Roosevelt carried out international policies which

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

President Roosevelts "Good Neighbor Policy"

expanded iniatives begun under Herbert Hoover

The Neutrality Act of 1935

included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflicts

In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria

issued warnings to the Japanese government

In the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt

none of these answers are correct

In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the US

occured before the US declared war on it

In 1938, tha anschluss

proclaimed a union between Germany and Austria

In 1937, President Roosevelt's quarantine speech

received a decidely hostile response by the American people

During the 1920's and 1930's, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy

reflected the sentiments of a majority of the American public

In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Hoover

repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

In 1941, the Atlantic Charter

saw the US and England claim to share the same common principles

During the Harding administration, the United States

significantly reduced the size of its navy

By Sept 1941,

the US extented lend lease privileges to the Soviet Union

The American First Committee

was a powerful lobby against the US involvement in the war

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of the 1928

was signed with wide international acclaim

The Munich agreement of 1938

was supported by President Roosevelt