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
An agreement between which two countries spurred World War II?
Germany and the Soviet Union
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
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
Who was most vigorously opposed to the bases-for-destroyers deal of 1940?
The America First Committee
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
What did President Franklin Roosevelt stress in his 1933 inaugural address?
The Good Neighbor policy
Even after removing the Platt Amendment constraints on Cuba, where did the United States insist on maintaining its Cuban military base?
Guantanamo Bay
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.
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 American policy led to a shooting naval war with Germany even before Pearl Harbor?
Providing armed U.S. naval escorts for British merchant ships
What was the key issue in the failed negotiations with Japan just before Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese refusal to withdraw from China
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.
All of the following are true about the attack on Pearl Harbor except:
It took American focus off of Germany.