Global Crisis- Chapter 25
By mid-1940, Germany had defeated
Norway. Denmark. France.
The America First Committee
was a powerful lobby against U.S. involvement in the war.
The Munich agreement of 1938
was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over German demands for territorial control in
Czechoslovakia.
President Franklin Roosevelt's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned
Europe
The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were intended to protect traditional shipping rights of a neutral nation for the United States and to promote our trade with all nations, even those embroiled in the various wars that would ultimately lead us into World War II.
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In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in
Italy.
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.
In 1921, Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes feared an arms race would develop on the world's oceans.
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President Roosevelt responded to the Nazi invasion of Russia by extending the "lend-lease" program to Russia.
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Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States knew that a Japanese attack was imminent, but it did not know where the attack would take place.
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The United States never joined the League of Nations.
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The United States, Great Britain, and France were united in opposing assistance to either side in the Spanish Civil War.
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Under the Dawes Plan, the United States lent money to European countries to repay war debts owed to the United States.
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Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is FALSE?
The State department assumed the Japanese would never attack the United States.
Germany began World War II days after
a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia.
In 1937, after Japanese pilots sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in China, President Roosevelt
accepted Japan's claim that the bombing had been an accident.
In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public
believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States.
Following the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt
declared that the United States would remain neutral.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
declared that war should be outlawed as an instrument of national policy.
The Neutrality Act of 1935
included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict.
In 1941, the German sinking of the American ship Reuben James
led Congress to approve the arming of American merchant ships. triggered an undeclared American naval war against Germany.
During the 1920s and 1930s, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy
reflected the sentiments of a majority of the American public.
After his inauguration in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt
established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"
expanded initiatives in Latin America begun under Herbert Hoover.
