front 1 The immediate response of most Americans to the rise fo Fascist dictators Mussolini and Hitler was | back 1 A deeper commitment to remain isolated from European problems |
front 2 The twin events that precipitated the reversal of American policy from neutrality to active, thought, nonbelligerent, support of the Allied cause were | back 2 The fall of France and the battle of Britain |
front 3 The destroyers for bases deal of 1940 provided that | back 3 The US would giver Britain 50 American destroyers in exchange for 8 British bases |
front 4 Seeking to withdraw from overseas commitments and colonial expense, the US in 1934 promised future independence to | back 4 the Philippines |
front 5 The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 193, and 1937 provided that | back 5 Americans could not sail on a belligerent ship, sell munitions, or make loans to a nation at war |
front 6 Lend-Lease Act clearly marked | back 6 An end to the pretense of American neutrality between Britain and Germany |
front 7 The key issue in failed negotiations with Japan just before Pearl Harbor was | back 7 the Japanese refusal to withdraw from China |
front 8 The provisions of the Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 included | back 8 self-determination for oppressed peoples and a new international peacekeeping organization |
front 9 In the 1940 Presidential Campaign, the Republican nominee, Willkie, agreed with Roosevelt on the issue of | back 9 Foreign Policy |
front 10 The effect of the strict American arms embargo on the Civil War between the loyalist Spanish government and Franco's Fascist rebels was | back 10 To cripple the Loyalist government's ability to resist Franco |
front 11 One international action by FDR in his first term in office was | back 11 The formal recognition of the Soviet Union |
front 12 One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when | back 12 Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped several thousand Hungarian Jews escape the Nazis |
front 13 The net effect of most of FDR's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that | back 13 The US was giving up ambitions to be world power and concentration on the Western Hemisphere |
front 14 By June 1940, the strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor | back 14 providing Britain with "all aid short of war" at the rick of armed hostilities with Germany |
front 15 By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the US because FDR | back 15 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 |
front 16 President FDR embarked on the Good Neighbor Policy | back 16 He was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against European dictators |
front 17 Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his | back 17 belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis |
front 18 Shortly after Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939 | back 18 Germany invaded Poland and started WWII |
front 19 On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a majority of Americans | back 19 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 |
front 20 Americans' enthusiastic isolationism in the 1930s can be best described as | back 20 All of these answers are correct |
front 21 During the 1930s, the US admitted ______ Jewish refugees from the Nazi oppression | back 21 A paltry sum of 150,000 |
front 22 Roosevelt's recognition fo the Soviet Union was undertaken partly | back 22 In the hope that developing a relationship might counterweight the rising power of Japan and Germany |
front 23 The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because | back 23 President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be Malaysia |
front 24 President Roosevelt's foreign policy | back 24 lowered tariffs to increase trade |
front 25 By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to | back 25 Forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum |