Chapters 23-27 Questions

Theodore Roosevelt's slogan that stated his essential foreign policy principle was

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

In 1932, the unemployment rates in Toledo, Ohio was one of the worst in the nation, at

80%

Which of the following was NOT a result of President Roosevelt's diplomatic ending of the Russo-Japanese war?

A cessation of significant Japanese immigrants to America's Pacific Coast

What was the primary motivation for the efforts of the United States to secure construction of an isthmian canal across Central America?

A desire to improve defense by allowing rapid naval movement between two nation

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the

Agriculture Marketing Act

The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included

All these answers are correct

7. By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated

All these answers are correct.

During the 1930s, the left in the United States

All these answers is correct

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

All these answers is correct

All of the following characterized China's Boxer Rebellion EXCEPT

An affirmation by Chinese nationals of legitimacy of the Open Door policy in protecting Chinese sovereignty

In the 1930s, all the following books offered criticism of American society EXCEPT

Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen

In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland to agree to the _______.

Atlantic Charter

In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were found in

California

Which statement most accurately characterizes the U.S. Army's performance in Cuba during the Spanish American War?

Crippled by logistical chaos and disease that killed thousands of soldiers

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

False

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

False

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

False

Why did the armed American effort to annex Hawaii fail to succeed in 1893?

Incoming President Cleveland rejected annexation because he believed that native Hawaiians had been wronged by U.S. government support for an armed, sugar interest-supported overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani that enjoyed negligible support among native Hawaiians.

In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression, EXCEPT

It Happened One Night

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

Italy

The 1931 invasion of Manchuria by ________ was cause for concern on the part of the Hoover administration.

Japan

10. The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among

Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Following his reelection in 1940, President Roosevelt asked Congress to extend ________ to Great Britain.

Lend LEase

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party

None of these answers are correct

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to

None of these answers are correct

During the 1930s, southern rural blacks who moved to northern urban areas

None of these answers is correct

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930

None of these answers is correct

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

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

What was the most important reason that President McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain?

The American public, influenced by the yellow press and many leading Republicans demanded war in the aftermath of the sinking of the Maine

Which of the following was not among the reasons that President McKinley and other pro-imperialists gave for acquiring the Philippines as an American territory?

The Filipinos had been mostly Catholic Christians for centuries and so would welcome American rule.

Which of the following was not among the arguments that anti-imperialists used to oppose American acquisition of the Philippines?

The Filipinos would never voluntarily convert to Protestantism if they were forced under American rule.

In 1933, the Roosevelt administration extended diplomatic recognition to _______. The Soviet Union

The Soviet Union

What was the direct cause of the Fillipino insurrection in 1899?

The United States refused to give the Filipino people their political independence

Which of the following was not among the factors propelling America toward overseas expansion in the 1890s?

The intervention of the German Kaiser in Latin America

Anti-imperialists presented all the following arguments against acquiring the Philippine Islands EXCEPT

The islands were still rightfully Spain's, since they were taken after the armistice had been signed

Which of the following was the most significant factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late nineteenth century?

The popular influence of the yellow press of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.

What was the primary argument emphasized by the American imperialists who advocated acquisition of Phillipenes?

The strategic advantage of Philippine bases for American naval operations and defense for the Pacific

Why did many Americans become concerned about the increasing foreign intervention in China at the turn of the twentieth century?

They feared that U.S. missions would be jeopardized and Chinese markets closed to non-Europeans

Erskine Caldwell's _________. which later became a long-running Broadway play, was an expose of poverty in the rural South.

Tobacco Road

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

True

16. 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

3. 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 long-time censor of Hollywood films in the 1920s and 1930s was

Will Hays

Germany began World War II in Europe days after

a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and Russia.

The 1930s films of director Frank Capra typically displayed

a populist admiration for ordinary Americans

To oversee activities in the stock market, in 1934 Congress established the

a. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Economy Act of 1933

a. proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

a. sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant.

4. In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

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

The most immediate consequence of American acquisition of the Philippines was

an outbreak of vicious guerrilla warfare between the United States and Filipino rebels.

The military theorist Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan promoted American overseas expansion by

arguing that control of the seas through naval power was the key to world domination

1. The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with

armament limitations.

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established

b. the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

In the 1931 Scottsboro court case

black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women

Beginning in 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

c. protected the assets of bank depositors.

During President Franklin Roosevelt's early days in office,

c. the American people concluded the economy was not as bad off as they once had believed

All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT

conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans

As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he

considered the country's economic future bright

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

declared the United States would be the "arsenal of democracy."

In the late 1920s, the European demanded for agricultural and manufacturing goods from the United States was

declining

In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt

e. closed all banks for a short period.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act

e. was declared unconstitutional in large part by the Supreme Court

Roosevelt overcame Colombia's refusal to approve a canal treaty by

encouraging Panamanian rebels to revolt and declare independence from Colombia

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

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

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

established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover

grew less willing to increase federal spending

During the Great Depression, Asian Americans

had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest

6. The Neutrality Act of 1935

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

Emilio Aguinaldo was the

leader of Filipino insurgents against Spanish rule.

In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans

left the United States entirely

In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

lent funds only to financial institution with sufficient collateral

During the 1930s, regarding radio,

listening was often a community experience

In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party

lost a significant portion of its membership

During the 1920s, American literature

offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies

During the Great Depression in rural United States,

one-third of all farmers lost their land

The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board

raised interest rates

After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States

refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America

Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

refused to make any agreements on the economic direction of the country with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover.

After Democrats won control of Congress in the 1930 elections, President Herbert Hoover

refused to support a more vigorous public spending program for relief

3. In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover

repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

In the Open Door notes, Secretary of State John Hay called on all the imperial powers to

respect Chinese rights and uphold China's territorial integrity rather than breaking it up into colonies.

The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression

saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women

In 1941, the Atlantic Charter

saw the United States and England claim to share common principles.

Beginning in February 1928 and lasting through most of 1929, the American stock market

saw the number of shares traded daily soar

Even before the sinking of the Maine, the American public's indignation at Spain had been whipped into a frenzy by

secretly ordering Admiral George Dewey to attack the Spanish in the distant Philippines.

As a result of the Great Depression, social values in the United States

seemed to change relatively little

During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines

In the 1930s, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People

taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially

All of the following statements regarding the 1932 "Bonus Army" are true EXCEPT that

the "Army" demanded Congress create relief programs for World War 1 veterans

During the 1930s, the most important group within the Popular Front was

the Communist Party

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with

the Spanish Civil War

During the Great Depression,

the divorce rate declined

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by

urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders

Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT

vice president of the United States

Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate

The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s

was a product of changing environmental conditions

In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association

was essentially a farmers' strike

2. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

was signed with wide international acclaim.

President Grover Cleveland refused to annex Hawaii in 1893 because

white planters had illegally overthrown Queen Liliuokalani against the wishes of most native Hawaiians.