front 1 Under the Neutrality Acts, Americans could not do which of the following? | back 1 Sell or transport munitions to a foreign belligerent |
front 2 Which group of Americans served in the Spanish Civil War? | back 2 The Abraham Lincoln Brigade |
front 3 An agreement between which two countries spurred World War II? | back 3 Germany and the Soviet Union |
front 4 The fall of France in June 1940 resulted in all of the following except: | back 4 Congress flatly rejecting Roosevelt's desperate plea for aid to Great Britain |
front 5 Efforts to bring large numbers of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to the United States were largely blocked by what? | back 5 Restrictive immigration laws and opposition from southern Democrats and the State Department |
front 6 Who was most vigorously opposed to the bases-for-destroyers deal of 1940? | back 6 The America First Committee |
front 7 As a result of the Great Depression, what were Americans and the U.S. government eager to do? | back 7 Get rid of the Philippines as an expensive and politically vulnerable colony |
front 8 What did President Franklin Roosevelt stress in his 1933 inaugural address? | back 8 The Good Neighbor policy |
front 9 Even after removing the Platt Amendment constraints on Cuba, where did the United States insist on maintaining its Cuban military base? | back 9 Guantanamo Bay |
front 10 What promise did Franklin Roosevelt make during the campaign of 1940 that later came back to haunt him? | back 10 American men would not be sent to any foreign wars. |
front 11 All of the following is true of the 1941 Lend-Lease Bill except: | back 11 It allowed Americans to sell a limited supply of arms to foreign nations. |
front 12 What American policy led to a shooting naval war with Germany even before Pearl Harbor? | back 12 Providing armed U.S. naval escorts for British merchant ships |
front 13 What was the key issue in the failed negotiations with Japan just before Pearl Harbor? | back 13 The Japanese refusal to withdraw from China |
front 14 Why did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 come as a surprise? | back 14 President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaysia or the Philippines. |
front 15 All of the following are true about the attack on Pearl Harbor except: | back 15 It took American focus off of Germany. |