history final (maybe)

The Roosevelt administration refused to issue economic sanctions against Japan prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

False

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

Haiti

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

Italy

The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among

Japan, Germany, and Italy.

In 1934, U.S.-Soviet relations soured in part because the United States demonstrated little interest in stopping the expansion of

Japan.

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

President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.

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

The State Department assumed the Japanese would never attack American interests.

At the time of its announcement, President Roosevelt approved of the Munich agreement.

True

By 1940 the American ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph Kennedy, thought that the British cause was hopeless.

True

The Good Neighbor Policy of the Roosevelt administration expanded on earlier changes in foreign policy made by the Hoover administration.

True

The Kellogg-Briand Pact declared war illegal.

True

The United States failed to join the League of Nations.

True

Germany began World War II in Europe days after

a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia.

In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England, to be returned or paid for when the war was over.

The Neutrality Act of 1937

allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the United States if they paid cash.

The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940

approved the first peacetime draft in American history.

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

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"

expanded initiatives begun under Herbert Hoover.

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 United States and England claim to share common principles.

The Munich agreement of 1938

was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.

The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James

All these answers are correct.

The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over

Czechoslovakia.

Like Woodrow Wilson before him, President Roosevelt asked the American people to be neutral in thought when war erupted in Europe in 1939.

False

President Franklin Roosevelt made his "quarantine" speech in an effort to block Hitler's takeover of Austria.

False

The Hoover administration imposed economic sanctions against Japan for its takeover of Manchuria in the early 1930s.

False

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

Joseph Kennedy.

By the time President Roosevelt ran for a third term, a significant majority of the American people believed that Nazi Germany posed a direct military threat to the United States.

True

On foreign policy matters, President Roosevelt and his Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie, were in essential agreement.

True

President Roosevelt responded to the Nazi invasion of Russia by extending lend-lease to Russia.

True

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.

True

Stalin's nonaggression pact with Hitler was signed before the start of World War II in Europe.

True

The American preference for neutrality increased in popularity in October 1935 when Mussolini finally launched his anticipated attack on Ethiopia.

True

Under the Dawes Plan, the 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 Adolf Hitler in Germany is FALSE?

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

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 United States.

President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England

circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts.

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

issued warnings to the Japanese government.

In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the United States

occurred before the United States declared war on Germany.

During the Harding administration, the United States

proposed a dramatic reduction in the fleets of the United States, Britain, and Japan.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech

received a decidedly hostile response by the American people.

By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated

All these answers are correct.

The America First Committee

was a powerful lobby against U.S. involvement in the war.

In 1938, Anschluss

was proclaimed by Hitler.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

was signed with wide international acclaim.

The Dawes Plan of 1924

All these answers are correct.

The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with

armament limitations

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

declared the United States would remain neutral.

By September 1941,

the United States extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union.

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's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned

Europe

President Hoover upheld the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

False

President Roosevelt's August 1941 meeting with Winston Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland led to a private commitment to use the American military in the war against Hitler.

False

President Roosevelt's decision to give American destroyers to Great Britain was consistent with the "cash-and-carry" provisions of the Neutrality Acts.

False

President Roosevelt's first response to the war in Europe was to request that Congress extend lend-lease to the Allies.

False

The Neutrality Acts of the mid-1930s established the U.S. right to use military action to defend any violation of its neutrality.

False

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

Russia

During the 1920s, U.S. 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 in its history.

True

In 1921, Charles Evans Hughes feared an arms race would develop on the world's oceans.

True

In December of 1941, Germany declared war on the United States before the United States declared war on Germany.

True

Lend-lease to Great Britain led directly to an American decision to escort convoys of goods across parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

True

The Neutrality Act of 1935

included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict.

In response to the breakout of the civil war in Spain, the U.S. government joined with Britain and France in an agreement to

offer no help to either side.

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

seemed to grow in the U.S. as it became apparent that Italy would invade Ethiopia.

In the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt

selected Henry Wallace as his new running mate.