Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Battle of Britain

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Britain was a significant

Question 2

To what extent did American diplomacy and economic policy during the 1930s and up to the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941provoke war with Japan? What might the United States have done to delay or even prevent war with Japan? Why wasn't that done?

Accepted Answer

American diplomacy and economic policy d

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-the Holocaust

Accepted Answer

The Holocaust was a systematic, state-sp

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-totalitarianism

Accepted Answer

Totalitarianism is a form of government

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Munich conference

Accepted Answer

The Munich Conference, held from Septemb

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​War Refugee Board

Accepted Answer

The War Refugee Board (WRB) was an agenc

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Joseph Stalin

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin was a Soviet political lea

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Francisco Franco

Accepted Answer

Francisco Franco was a Spanish general w

Question 9

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939
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-____ The nation invaded by Hitler in 1941 despite a formal nonaggression pact signed two years earlier.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Locate the following places by reference number...

Question 10

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939
​
  
-____ The nation through which German armies twice invaded France in the twentieth century.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Locate the following places by reference number...

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​George Gallup

Accepted Answer

George Gallup (1901-1984) was an America

Question 12

Explain in what way a) the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, b) the fall of France, c) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, and d) the attack on Pearl Harbor mark the most important turning points in American foreign policy from "storm-cellar isolationism" to full-fledged interventionism between 1935 and 1941.

Accepted Answer

a) The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, an

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Spanish Civil War

Accepted Answer

The Spanish Civil War was a significant

Question 14

The text states that the ultimate cause of America's entry into World War II was the fact that it pursued policies in both Europe and Asia that invited retaliation. Do you agree with the authors' assessment of why America ultimately entered World War II? If not, why not? If so, what were those policies, and why were Americans willing to risk war to uphold them?

Accepted Answer

I agree with the authors' assessment tha

Question 15

Liberal and left-wing Americans reacted to General Franco's efforts to stage a Fascist coup and overthrow the Republic in Spain by

Accepted Answer

A)  supporting Franco and his rebels. 
B)  recruiting thousands of men and women as volunteers to fight Franco in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. 
C)  renouncing their American citizenship when the U.S. government decided to remain strictly neutral in the Spanish Civil War. 
D)  meekly accepting and following the neutrality policy of the U.S. government concerning the Spanish Civil War. 
E)  None of these choices are correct. 
A)  supporting Franco and his rebels. 
B)  recruiting thousands of men and women as volunteers to fight Franco in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. 
C)  renouncing their American citizenship when the U.S. government decided to remain strictly neutral in the Spanish Civil War. 
D)  meekly accepting and following the neutrality policy of the U.S. government concerning the Spanish Civil War. 
E)  None of these choices are correct.

Question 16

During the 1930s, the United States admitted ____ Jewish refugees from Nazism.

Accepted Answer

A)  about one million 
B)  zero 
C)  nearly six million 
D)  a paltry sum of about 150,000 
E)  only highly educated and highly skilled 
A)  about one million 
B)  zero 
C)  nearly six million 
D)  a paltry sum of about 150,000 
E)  only highly educated and highly skilled

Question 17

The net effect of most of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that

Accepted Answer

A)  the United States was developing a strong defense perimeter across the northern Atlantic Ocean. 
B)  the United States was willing to accommodate Stalin's Soviet Union but not Hitler's Germany. 
C)  the United States was tilting toward engagement with undeveloped nations rather than with the Western world. 
D)  the United States was giving up ambitions to be a world power and concentrating on the Western hemisphere. 
E)  Americans would be economically but not diplomatically engaged with the rest of the world. 
A)  the United States was developing a strong defense perimeter across the northern Atlantic Ocean. 
B)  the United States was willing to accommodate Stalin's Soviet Union but not Hitler's Germany. 
C)  the United States was tilting toward engagement with undeveloped nations rather than with the Western world. 
D)  the United States was giving up ambitions to be a world power and concentrating on the Western hemisphere. 
E)  Americans would be economically but not diplomatically engaged with the rest of the world.

Question 18

Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?

Accepted Answer

A)  Norway 
B)  The Netherlands 
C)  France 
D)  Poland 
E)  Finland 
A)  Norway 
B)  The Netherlands 
C)  France 
D)  Poland 
E)  Finland

Question 19

America's attempt to remain neutral in the war between the Axis powers and the Allies came to an end when

Accepted Answer

A)  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 
B)  Germany attacked Poland. 
C)  the conscription law was passed in 1940. 
D)  France fell to Germany. 
E)  Italy "stabbed France in the back." 
A)  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 
B)  Germany attacked Poland. 
C)  the conscription law was passed in 1940. 
D)  France fell to Germany. 
E)  Italy "stabbed France in the back."

Question 20

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his

Accepted Answer

A)  personal desire to defeat his old political rival, Wendell Willkie. 
B)  belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis. 
C)  belief that the two-term tradition was contrary to democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution. 
D)  opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict policy of American neutrality. 
E)  None of these choices are correct. 
A)  personal desire to defeat his old political rival, Wendell Willkie. 
B)  belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis. 
C)  belief that the two-term tradition was contrary to democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution. 
D)  opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict policy of American neutrality. 
E)  None of these choices are correct.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Battle of Britain

To what extent did American diplomacy and economic policy during the 1930s and up to the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941provoke war with Japan? What might the United States have done to delay or even prevent war with Japan? Why wasn't that done?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -the Holocaust

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -totalitarianism

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Munich conference

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -War Refugee Board

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Joseph Stalin

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Francisco Franco

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939 -____ The nation invaded by Hitler in 1941 despite a formal nonaggression pact signed two years earlier.

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939 -____ The nation through which German armies twice invaded France in the twentieth century.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -George Gallup

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Spanish Civil War

Liberal and left-wing Americans reacted to General Franco's efforts to stage a Fascist coup and overthrow the Republic in Spain by

During the 1930s, the United States admitted ____ Jewish refugees from Nazism.

The net effect of most of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that

Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?

America's attempt to remain neutral in the war between the Axis powers and the Allies came to an end when

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his

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Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920–1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939

America in World War II 1941–1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Exam 12: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933–1941

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Battle of Britain

To what extent did American diplomacy and economic policy during the 1930s and up to the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941provoke war with Japan? What might the United States have done to delay or even prevent war with Japan? Why wasn't that done?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -the Holocaust

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -totalitarianism

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Munich conference

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​War Refugee Board

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Joseph Stalin

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Francisco Franco

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939 ​ -____ The nation invaded by Hitler in 1941 despite a formal nonaggression pact signed two years earlier.

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939 ​ -____ The nation through which German armies twice invaded France in the twentieth century.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​George Gallup

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Spanish Civil War

Liberal and left-wing Americans reacted to General Franco's efforts to stage a Fascist coup and overthrow the Republic in Spain by

During the 1930s, the United States admitted ____ Jewish refugees from Nazism.

The net effect of most of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that

Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?

America's attempt to remain neutral in the war between the Axis powers and the Allies came to an end when

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920–1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939

America in World War II 1941–1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -War Refugee Board

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939 -____ The nation invaded by Hitler in 1941 despite a formal nonaggression pact signed two years earlier.

Locate the following places by reference number on the map: Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939 -____ The nation through which German armies twice invaded France in the twentieth century.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -George Gallup