paub test

By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated

All these answers are correct

The Dawes Plan of 1924

All these answers are correct

The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James

All these answers are correct

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

The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over

Czechoslovakia

President Franklin Roosevelt's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned

Europe

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

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

Japan

The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among

Japan, Germany, and Italy

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

Joseph Kennedy

In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States

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

Russia

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

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."

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

The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with

armament limitations

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

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

declared the United States would remain neutral

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

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

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

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

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 of both sides during any military conflict

In 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

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 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

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

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

By September 1941

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

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

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

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

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

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

Under the Dawes Plan, the United States lent money to European countries to repay war debts owed to the United States

true

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 Munich agreement of 1938

was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt