A-freaking-PUSH chapter 25
The secretary of state of the Harding administration was
a. Charles Evans Hughes
Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is FALSE?
a. The State Department assumed the Japanese would never attack American interests
In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan
a. allowed the US to loan weapons to England, to be returned or paid for when the war was over
The Washington Conference of 1921
a. attempted to prevent a global naval arms race
In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public
a. believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States
Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt
a. declared the US would remain neutral
President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"
a. expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover
In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
a. issued warnings to the Japanese government.
All of the following nations were signatories to the Five-Power Pact of 1922 EXCEPT
b. Russia
Germany began World War II in Europe days after
b. a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia
The Neutrality Act of 1937
b. allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the US if they paid cash
President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England
b. circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts
During the 1920s and 1930s, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy
b. seemed to grow in the U.S. as it became apparent that Italy would invade Ethiopia
By September 1941,
b. the US extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union
In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in
c. Italy
The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among
c. Japan, Germany, and Italy
The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940
c. approved the first peacetime draft in American history
In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt carried out international policies that
c. established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
The Munich agreement of 1938
d. was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt
The Dawes Plan of 1924
e. All these answers are correct
In what became known as the 1933 "bombshell" message, Franklin Roosevelt declared that
e. America would reject any international agreement on currency stabilization
The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over
e. Czechoslovakia
The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with
e. armament limitations
In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover
a. repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
In response to the breakout of the civil war in Spain, the US government joined with Britain and France in an agreement to
a. support the republican side
The America First Committee
a. was a powerful lobby against US involvement in the war
In 1938, Anschluss
a. was proclaimed by Hitler
President Franklin Roosevelt's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned
b. Europe
The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was
b. Joseph Kennedy
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
c. was signed with wide international acclaim.
In 1934, U.S.-Soviet relations soured in part because the US demonstrated little interest in stopping the expansion of
d. Japan
In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the US
d. occurred before the US declared war on Germany
During the Harding administration, the United States
d. proposed a dramatic reduction in the fleets of the United States, Britain, and Japan.
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech
d. received a decidedly hostile response by the American people
In 1941, the Atlantic Charter
d. saw the US and England claim to share common principles
As a part of his foreign policy, President Herbert Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from
e. Haiti
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pear Harbor
e. President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the US
Which of the following statements about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany is FALSE
e. Upon coming to power in 1933, Hitler called his new government "the Weimar Republic"
By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated
e. all these answers are correct
The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James
e. all these answers are correct
The Neutrality Act of 1935
e. included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict.
In the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt
e. none of these answers are correct