Quiz #8 American Foreign Policy

The recapturing of the Philippine Islands (October-December 1944) was significant to the Pacific War for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

The loss of American lives probably convinced President Roosevelt to use the atomic bomb to end the war.

The Red Scare (1919-1921) had all of the following effects on post-war America EXCEPT:

It represented the beginnings of the Cold War as the Soviet Union attempted to develop an atomic weapon.

In repudiating the Roosevelt Corollary, all of the following were provisions of the Clark Memorandum (1928) EXCEPT:

The memorandum permitted the United States to militarily intervene in the Western Hemisphere to protect American economic and military interests.

All of the following were elements of American immigration policies in the 1920's EXCEPT:

They permitted the Attorney General to deport hundreds of foreigners suspected of having radical leanings.

As a result of the liberation efforts in Italy (September 1943), Allied forces accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

the assassination of Benito Mussolini by the Sicilian mafia.

All of the following contributed to the internment of Japanese-Americans in "War Relocation Camps" during the Second World War EXCEPT:

the revelation of a Japanese secret society based in San Francisco that had been training warriors for an assault on military installations on the West Coast.

All of the following were consequences of the Battle of the Bulge (1944-45) EXCEPT:

Adolf Hitler realized that the war could not be won and attempted to negotiate a separate peace with the Western Allies.

The beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was shaped by all of the following EXCEPT:

America re-arming Japan to meet the growing Communist threat in Southeast Asia.

The United States restricted immigration in the years following the First World War by enacting all of the following policies EXCEPT:

Banning all immigration from Southern and Eastern European nations that empowered authoritarian regimes.

Truman argued

Belived it was an appropriate reponse

All of the following occurred in the waning months of the Pacific War EXCEPT:

Crown Prince Akihito was killed during the American bombing raid on the Imperial Palace.

The terms of Japan's surrender in the summer of 1945 included all of the following EXCEPT:

Emperor Hirohito was to be tried as a war criminal.

All of the following characterize the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 EXCEPT:

Reflecting the post-war isolationist mood of the nation, the United States Senate refused to ratify the Pact.

The Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22) accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

allowed the United States to join the League of Nations as a non-voting member.

In dealing with Western Hemisphere neighbors, Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policies included all of the following EXCEPT:

applying moral pressure to make the dictatorial regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua step down.

Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States provoked the Axis powers in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

declaring war on Germany for torpedoing two American destroyers off the coast of Iceland in October 1941.

Addressing the concerns of African Americans, President Roosevelt's Executive Order #8802 did all of the following EXCEPT:

desegregated the nation's military.

German U-Boats were responsible for all of the following attacks on American ships in the Atlantic Theater in 1941 EXCEPT:

destroying the U.S.S. Arizona, resulting in the deaths of 1,177 officers and crewmen.

In preparing the nation for the possibility of war, the Roosevelt administration took all of the following actions prior to the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor EXCEPT:

relocated tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to prevent possible subversive activity.

In becoming the "arsenal of democracy," the Lend-Lease Act (1941) provided all of the following EXCEPT:

requiring payment up-front, the Act helped to end the Great Depression.

The Yalta Conference (February 1945) produced agreements on all of the following topics EXCEPT:

the Allied invasion of Normandy.

All of the following were components of the Grand Strategy agreed upon by the United States and Great Britain in 1941 EXCEPT:

using the atomic bomb to end the war in the Pacific.