Exam 25: The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public

In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,

The ________ of 1921 was an attempt to prevent a naval arms race among the United States, Great Britain, and Japan.

President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech

During the 1920s and 1930s, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy

In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

The Neutrality Act of 1935

In 1934, U.S.-Soviet relations soured in part because the United States demonstrated little interest in stopping the expansion of

In 1940, Charles Lindbergh and Senator Gerald Nye took leading roles in the ________ Committee.

President Roosevelt's August 1941 meeting with Winston Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland led to a private commitment to use the American military in the war against Hitler.

By late November of 1941, American officials assumed that the next Japanese move would be directed not against American territory, but against British or ________ possessions to the south.

During the 1920s, the United States played a more active role in global politics than it ever had in its history.

In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the United States

How might the Roosevelt administration be labeled isolationist? How and why might it be labeled internationalist?

Lend-lease to Great Britain led directly to an American decision to escort convoys of goods across parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Hoover administration's foreign policy?

Which of the following statements about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany is FALSE?

The 1928 ________ was a multilateral treaty to outlaw war.

President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England