The immediate response of most Americans to the rise fo Fascist dictators Mussolini and Hitler was
A deeper commitment to remain isolated from European problems
The twin events that precipitated the reversal of American policy from neutrality to active, thought, nonbelligerent, support of the Allied cause were
The fall of France and the battle of Britain
The destroyers for bases deal of 1940 provided that
The US would giver Britain 50 American destroyers in exchange for 8 British bases
Seeking to withdraw from overseas commitments and colonial expense, the US in 1934 promised future independence to
the Philippines
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 193, and 1937 provided that
Americans could not sail on a belligerent ship, sell munitions, or make loans to a nation at war
Lend-Lease Act clearly marked
An end to the pretense of American neutrality between Britain and Germany
The key issue in failed negotiations with Japan just before Pearl Harbor was
the Japanese refusal to withdraw from China
The provisions of the Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 included
self-determination for oppressed peoples and a new international peacekeeping organization
In the 1940 Presidential Campaign, the Republican nominee, Willkie, agreed with Roosevelt on the issue of
Foreign Policy
The effect of the strict American arms embargo on the Civil War between the loyalist Spanish government and Franco's Fascist rebels was
To cripple the Loyalist government's ability to resist Franco
One international action by FDR in his first term in office was
The formal recognition of the Soviet Union
One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when
Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped several thousand Hungarian Jews escape the Nazis
The net effect of most of FDR's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that
The US was giving up ambitions to be world power and concentration on the Western Hemisphere
By June 1940, the strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor
providing Britain with "all aid short of war" at the rick of armed hostilities with Germany
By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the US because FDR
Had in 1941 imposed a freezing of assets and a termination of all shipment and other critical raw materials in an effort to persuade Japan to withdraw from China
President FDR embarked on the Good Neighbor Policy
He was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against European dictators
Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his
belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis
Shortly after Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939
Germany invaded Poland and started WWII
On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a majority of Americans
while still wanting to keep America from formally entering the war, supported providing generous military assistance to Britain prevent it from falling to Nazi Germany and embargoes on Japan
Americans' enthusiastic isolationism in the 1930s can be best described as
All of these answers are correct
During the 1930s, the US admitted ______ Jewish refugees from the Nazi oppression
A paltry sum of 150,000
Roosevelt's recognition fo the Soviet Union was undertaken partly
In the hope that developing a relationship might counterweight the rising power of Japan and Germany
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because
President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be Malaysia
President Roosevelt's foreign policy
lowered tariffs to increase trade
By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
Forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum