Franklin Roosevelt refused to support the London Economic Conference
because
a) its members insisted on rigid adherence to the gold
standard
b) any agreement to stabilize national currencies might
hurt America's recovery from depression
c) such an agreement
would involve the U.S. militarily with the League of Nations
d)
the delegates refused to work on reviving international trade
e)
it was dominated by British and Swiss bankers
B
As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to support the
London Conference,
a) inflation in the U.S. was reduced
b)
the U.S. was voted out of the League of Nations
c) tensions
arouse between the U.S. and Britain
d) the U.S. began to pull out
of the Depression
e) the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened
E
One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first
term in office was
a) the formal recognition of the Soviet
Union
b) joining the League of Nations
c) establishing
military bases in China
d) his support of the Tydings-McDuffie
Act
e) his commitment to Philippine independence
A
Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken
partly
a) in order to win support for American Catholics
b)
because the Soviet leadership seemed to be modifying its harsher
communist policies
c) in hopes of developing a diplomatic
counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany
d) to win
favor with American liberals and leftists
e) to open
opportunities for American investment in Siberian oil fields
C
In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the U.S. was
motivated by
a) treaty obligations
b) doubts about the
islands' potential profitability
c) the view that the islands
were militarily indefensible
d) the realization that the islands
were economic liabilities
e) regrets over their imperialistic
takeover on 1898
D
Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part
because
a) there was a rising tide of anti-Americanism in Latin
America
b) Congress had repealed the Monroe Doctrine
c) he
feared the spread of communism in the region
d) the policy was
part of the neutrality stance taken by the U.S.
e) he was eager
to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere
against European and Asian dictators
E
As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President
Roosevelt
a) abandoned the Monroe Doctrine
b) withdrew
American marines from Haiti
c) asked Congress to extend the Platt
Amendment in Cuba
d) returned to the Guantanamo naval base to
Cuban control
e) proposed to grant Rico its independence
B
The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
a) raised America's
tariff schedule
b) inhibited President Roosevelt's efforts to
implement his Good Neighborhood policy.
c) increased America's
foreign trade
d) was most strongly opposed in the South and
West
e) was aimed at isolating Italy and Germany
C
President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy
a) lowered
tariffs to increase trade
b) encouraged trade only with Latin
America
c) continued the policy that had persisted since the
Civil War
d) was reversed only after World War II
e) sought
protection for key U.S. industries
A
Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the
aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by
a) assisting
their victims with military aid
b) giving only economic help to
the targets of aggression
c) beginning to build up their military
forces
d) demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations
e)
retreating into isolationism
E
Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's vision of
______________, Hitler's invasion of _______________, and Franco's
overthrow of the republican government of
____________________.
a) Egypt, France, Poland
b) Albania,
Italy, Austria
c) Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Spain
d)
Belgium, the Soviet Union, France
e) Ethiopia, Norway, Portugal
C
By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a
constitutional amendment to
a) increase the size of the Supreme
Court
b) limit a president to two terms
c) ban arm sales to
foreign nations
d) require the president to gain Congressional
approval before sending U.S. troops overseas
e) forbid a
declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum
E
Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the U.S.
resulted in all of the following except
a) abandonment of the
traditional policy of freedom of the seas
b) a decline in the
navy and other armed forces
c) making no distinction whatever
between aggressors and victims
d) spurring aggressors along their
path of conquest
e) balancing the scales between dictators and
U.S. allies by trading with neither
B
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the
president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,
a) Americans
would be prohibited from sailing on the ships of the warring
nations
b) America would sell arms and war materials only to the
victim of aggression
c) American bankers would be allowed to make
loans to only one of the warring nations
d) U.S. diplomats
intended to uphold the tradition of freedom of the seas
e) U.S.
diplomats and civilians would be withdrawn from both warring nations
A
From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to
warring nations followed this sequence:
a) embargo to lend-lease
to cash-and-carry
b) cash-and-carry to lend-lease to
embargo
c) lend-lease to cash-and-carry to embargo
d)
embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease
e) lend-lease to embargo
to cash-and-carry
D
America's neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939
allowed
a) Hitler to conquer Spain
b) the Loyalists to win
the war
c) Roosevelt and Franco to become personal
friends
d) the Soviets to aid the Spanish republic
e) Spain
to become a fascist dictatorship
E
Franklin Roosevelt's sensational "Quarantine Speech"
resulted in
a) immediate British support for U.S. policy
b)
a wave of protest by isolationists
c) support from both
Democratic and Republican leaders
d) Japanese aggression in
China
e) A modification of the Neutrality Acts
B
In September 1938 in Munich, German,
a) Britain and France
consented to Germany's taking the Sudetenland from
Czechoslovakia
b) Hitler declared his intention to take
Austria
c) Hitler signed the Axis Alliance Treaty with
Japan
d) Britain and France acquiesced to the German reoccupation
of the Rhineland
e) Britain and France declared that an invasion
of Poland would mean war
A
In 1938 the British and French brought peace with Hitler at the
Munich Conference at the expense of
a) Poland
b) The free
city of Danzig
c) Austria
d) Belgium
e) Czechoslovakia
E
Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the
Soviet Union,
a) Britain and France singed a similar
agreement
b) the Soviets attacked China
c) Germany invaded
Poland and started World War II
d) Italy signed a similar
agreement with the Soviets
e) the Germans invaded Finland
C
The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty
was
a) Poland
b) Czechoslovakia
c) Austria
d)
Belgium
e) the Jews
A
Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany
between September 1939 and June 1940?
a) Norway
b) the
Netherlands
c) France
d) Poland
e) Finland
E
Probably the greatest obstacle to America's acceptance of more Jewish
refugees from Europe was
a) a failure of moral imagination and
belief that the Holocaust could actually be happening.
b)
internal tensions between German-Jewish and eastern European Jewish
communities in the United States.
c) the restrictive Immigration
Act of 1924.
d) inadequate means for getting refugees from Europe
to the United States.
e) the general belief that most Jews wanted
to create a new state of Israel.
C
The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at
Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that
a) bombing would
kill the Jews kept there
b) bombing would divert essential
military resources
c) the military was unsure of the gas
chambers' location
d) such attacks would not seriously impede the
killing of Jews
e) all of the above
B
During World War II, the U.S. saved ________________ Jews from
Nazism.
a) about one million
b) no
c) about six
million
d) 150,000
e) about 250,000
D
Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940
was to
a) revoke all the neutrality laws
b) expand naval
patrols in the Atlantic
c) enact a new neutrality law enabling
the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry
basis
d) call for the quarantining of aggressor nations
e)
pass a conscription law
E
America's neutrality effectively ended when
a) Japan attacked
Pearl Harbor
b) Germany attacked Poland
c) the conscription
laws was passed in 1940
d) France fell to Germany
e) Italy
"stabbed France in the back"
D
In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the
U.S.
a) "most favored nation" status
b) a role in
developing the atomic bomb
c) eight valuable naval bases
d)
access to German military codes
e) six air bases in Scotland and Iceland
C
By 1940 American public opinion began to favor
a) the American
First position
b) active participation in the war
c)
permitting U.S. volunteers to fight in Britain
d) maintaining
strict neutrality
e) providing Britain with "all aid short
of war"
E
The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was
a) Wendell L.
Willkie
b) Robert A. Taft
c) Thomas E. Dewey
d) Alfred
E. Landon
e) Charles A. Lindbergh
A
Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940
mainly by his
a) personal desire to defeat his old political
rival, Wendell Willkie
b) belief that America needed his
experienced leadership during the international crisis
c) mania
for power
d) opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict
policy of American neutrality
e) belief that the two-term
tradition limited democratic choice
B
The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except
a) a
focus of intense debate between internationalists and
isolationists
b) a direct challenge to the Axis dictators
c)
the point when all pretense of American neutrality was
abandoned
d) the catalyst that caused American factories to
prepare for all-out war production
e) another privately arranged
executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases trade
E
When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the U.S.
a)
promised aid to the Soviets but did not deliver
b) refused to
provide any help, either military or economic
c) gave only
non-military aid to Russia
d) made lend-lease aid available to
the Soviets
e) sent U.S. ships to Soviet naval bases
D
The Atlantic Charter, developed by the U.S. and Britain, was also
endorsed by
a) Canada
b) France
c) Spain
d)
China
e) the Soviet Union
E
After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben
James sunk,
a) Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act
b) the
U.S. Navy began escorting merchant vessels carrying lend-lease
shipments
c) Congress allowed the arming of U.S. merchant
vessels
d) Congress forbade U.S. ships to enter combat
zones
e) Roosevelt told the public that war was imminent
C
Japan believed that it was forced into war with the U.S. because
Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan
a) withdraw from the Dutch
East Indies
b) leave China
c) renew its trade with
America
d) break its treaty of nonaggression with Germany
e)
find alternative sources of oil
B
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise
because
a) President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came,
it would be in Malaya or the Philippines
b) there was no way of
knowing that the Japanese had been provoked to the point of starting a
war with the U.S.
c) Japanese communications were in a secret
code unknown to the U.S.
d) the U.S. was, at the time, Japan's
main source of oil and steel
e) it was believed that Japan had
insufficient aircraft carriers to reach near Hawaii
A
On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of
Americans
a) were beginning to question the increased aid given
to Britain
b) still wanted to keep the U.S. out of war
c)
accepted the idea that America would enter the war
d) did not
oppose Japan's conquests in East Asia
e) were ready to fight
Germany but not Japan
B
Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference,
(B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin non-aggression
treaty.
a) A, C, B
b) B, C, A
c) C, B, A
d) C, A,
B
e) A, B, C
A
Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of
France, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet
Union
a) B, A, C
b) A, B, C
c) C, B, A
d) A, C,
B
e) C, A, B
D