APUSH Chapter 32
Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini invaded which African nation in 1935?
Ethiopia
Who did American cash-and-carry rules at the beginning of World War II help most?
Allies
The London Economic Conference of 1933 failed because
America did not cooperate
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 demonstrated
America's determination not to get involved in another World War
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 demonstrated
America's determination not to make the mistake of joining a World War again
The Selective Service and Training Act was
America's first peacetime draft.
What promise did Franklin Roosevelt make during the campaign of 1940 that later came back to haunt him?
American men would not be sent to any foreign wars.
The fall of France in June 1940 resulted in all of the following except:
Congress flatly rejecting Roosevelt's desperate plea for aid to Great Britain
What does the image suggest about democracy?
Democracy could be threatened by the U.S. government.
The Nazi Party was an extreme example of what political ideology?
Fascism
All of the following events foreshadowed the official outbreak of World War II in 1939 EXCEPT:
German invasion of Denmark
An agreement between which two countries spurred World War II?
Germany and the Soviet Union
As a result of the Great Depression, what were Americans and the U.S. government eager to do?
Get rid of the Philippines as an expensive and politically vulnerable colony.
Even after removing the Platt Amendment constraints on Cuba, where did the United States insist on maintaining its Cuban military base?
Guantanamo Bay
Despite its isolationist position in the 1920's, the United States government actively intervened throughout the decade in which of the following areas of European affairs?
International finance and reparations
All of the following is true of the 1941 Lend-Lease Bill except:
It allowed Americans to sell a limited supply of arms to foreign nations.
What is the cartoonist implying by having the barn door read "Consolidated World Dairy"?
It suggests that Hitler wants to rule the world, and that he wishes to add more countries to the cow.
All of the following are true about the attack on Pearl Harbor except:
It took American focus off of Germany.
Which of the following answers best describes the term "Lebensraum"?
It was the term given to the area of Europe that Hitler intended to conquer for the use of "Pure Blooded" Germans.
Which of the following best explains the factor that prompted United States involvement in military actions during the Second World War?
Japan conducted a surprise attack on a United States military base
How did American opinion on World War I change in the 1930s?
More Americans came to believe that the US had been misled into joining the war
Why did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 come as a surprise?
President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaysia or the Philippines.
Efforts to bring large numbers of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the United States were largely blocked by what?
Restrictive immigration laws and opposition from southern Democrats and the State Department
In 1936, in defiance of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler moved his men into the demilitarized
Rhineland
Which of the following statements about the election of 1936 is true?
Roosevelt won the majority of electoral and popular votes in the 1936 election.
Which of the following statements about the election of 1940 is true?
Roosevelt won the majority of electoral and popular votes in the 1940 election.
Under the Neutrality Acts, Americans could not do which of the following?
Sell or transport munitions to a foreign belligerent.
Which group of Americans served in the Spanish Civil War?
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
What did President Franklin Roosevelt stress in his 1933 inaugural address?
The Good Neighbor policy.
What was the key issue in the failed negotiations with Japan just before Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese refusal to withdraw from China
The Atlantic Charter was an agreement between
The United States and Britain
Which of the following best explains United States foreign policy between the First World War and the Second World War?
The United States followed an isolationist policy in order to avoid becoming involved in another conflict abroad
Which of the following most immediately increased enthusiasm in the United States for upholding the freedoms outlined in the excerpt?
The attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor
Which of the following most directly contributed to Roosevelt's view that "freedom from want" was necessary?
The experience of domestic and global economic upheavals during the 1930s
What is the significance of all of the countries drawn on the cow?
They were the countries now under the rule of Nazi Germany.
Now, match each of these events with the statement that best describes its historical significance.
U.S. withdrawal from international cooperation -London Economic Conference Provided troops for Germany to seize territory -Compulsory military service instituted in Germany Escalation of anti-Semitism -Kristallnacht in Germany
What can be reasonably inferred from the image about the cartoonist's views of war?
War has destroyed European democracy.
What is a reasonable conclusion about the cartoonist's views that can be made from the image?
Wrong- The United States should prepare for inevitable war. Think-Democracy is more powerful than authoritarianism.
The Japanese seizure of Manchuria in 1931 was in violation of which agreement?
Wrong-Five Power Pact *Either four or nine
Which of the following ways best explains how the United States attempted to influence the outside world following the conclusion of the First World War?
Wrong-It granted independence to colonies such as the Philippines to encourage European countries to end their empires. Think-It used trade and investment in order to maintain international connections.
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 did all of the following EXCEPT
allowed cash-and-carry sale of nonmilitary goods to belligerents
Franklin Roosevelt did not agree to peg the dollar to other currencies because
he thought it might hinder his recovery efforts
Franklin Roosevelt lost many previous supporters in the election of 1940 because
he was breaking the long two-term tradition.
Republican challenger Wendell Wilkie had a hard time challenging Franklin Roosevelt in the election of 1940 because
his position was very close to Roosevelt's on foreign policy.
United States foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s consisted primarily of
isolationism
All of the following are true about the Atlantic Charter EXCEPT
it stated that possession of Germany would be split among the Allies.
After its invasion of China in the late 1930s and 1940s, Japan
not sure
The Four Freedoms were
principles of freedom endorsed by Franklin Roosevelt in the Atlantic Charter
The purpose of the Lend-Lease Act was to
provide military supplies to the Allies
Franklin Roosevelt's destroyers-for-bases plan
supported Roosevelt's assertion that the best way to avoid war was to help Britain.
The Selective Service and Training Act and the War Resources Board demonstrated
the United States was gearing up for war.
German militarization of the Rhineland and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia demonstrated
the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations
The shoot-on-sight order and Congressional authorization of the arming of merchant ships in 1941 demonstrated that
the naval war had already begun for America
Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States' involvement in World War II
was not official but included defense of British ships and an embargo on Japan.
What American policy led to a shooting naval war with Germany even before Pearl Harbor?
wrong-Sending Lend-Lease supplies to Britain aboard U.S. navy vessels probably-Providing armed U.S. naval escorts for British merchant ships
The cash-and-carry rules passed by Franklin Roosevelt during World War II
wrong-forbade short term loans to belligerents.
In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the United States
wrong-froze all Japanese assets and ceased trade.
American attitudes in 1940 towards World War II were
wrong-mostly for complete isolation.
Who was most vigorously opposed to the bases-for-destroyers deal of 1940?
wrong-the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
