DE US HISTORY Ch. 25 Test

By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated

All of these Answers are Correct (Norway, Denmark, France, the Netherlands)

President Franklin Roosevelt's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned

Europe

T/F The American stance of militant neutrality gained support in October 1935 when Mussolini finally launched his long-anticipated attack on Somalia.

False

Which of the following statements about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany is FALSE?

His rise was partially precipitated my ruinous inflation

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

Italy

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

Japan

The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among

Japan, Germany, and Italy

In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,

President Roosevelt froze all Japanese assest in the US

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

Russia

T/F Stalin's nonaggression pact with Hitler was signed before the start of World War II in Europe.

True

Germany began World War II in Europe days after

a non-aggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia

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 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

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

declared that the US would remain neutral

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

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

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 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 the same common principles

By September 1941,

the US extended lend lease privileges to the Soviet Union

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 acclaim