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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
