US History ch 25

The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance between

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.

In the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt -None of these answers is correct. -removed Henry Wallace from the ticket at the request of conservatives. -selected Harry Truman as his new vice president running mate. -won an unprecedented, but closely contested, third term.

None of these answers is correct.

The United States never joined the League of Nations. 1

True 1

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. 2

True 2

Prior to the 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. 3

True 3

In December of 1941, Germany declared war on the United States before the United States declared war on Germany. 4

True 4

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".

In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

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

A neutrality law passed in 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 Washington Conference of 1921

attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.

In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt's decision 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 that the United States would remain neutral.