Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-America First Committee

Accepted Answer

The America First Committee was a promin

Question 2

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk in the fall of 1941

Accepted Answer

A)  Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. 
B)  the U.S. Navy stopped escorting merchant vessels carrying lend-lease shipments. 
C)  Congress prohibited the arming of U.S. merchant vessels. 
D)  Congress forbade United States ships to enter combat zones. 
E)  Congress voted to weaken substantially the terms of the Neutrality Act of 1939 to permit armed merchant ship to deliver munitions to Britain. 
A)  Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. 
B)  the U.S. Navy stopped escorting merchant vessels carrying lend-lease shipments. 
C)  Congress prohibited the arming of U.S. merchant vessels. 
D)  Congress forbade United States ships to enter combat zones. 
E)  Congress voted to weaken substantially the terms of the Neutrality Act of 1939 to permit armed merchant ship to deliver munitions to Britain.

Question 3

Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of ____, Hitler's invasion of ____, and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  Egypt; France; Poland 
B)  Albania; Italy; Austria 
C)  Ethiopia; Czechoslovakia; Spain 
D)  Belgium; the Soviet Union; France 
E)  Ethiopia; Norway; Portugal 
A)  Egypt; France; Poland 
B)  Albania; Italy; Austria 
C)  Ethiopia; Czechoslovakia; Spain 
D)  Belgium; the Soviet Union; France 
E)  Ethiopia; Norway; Portugal

Question 4

One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was

Accepted Answer

A)  the formal recognition of the Soviet Union. 
B)  joining the League of Nations. 
C)  establishing military bases in China. 
D)  his support of the Tydings-McDuffie Act. 
E)  his commitment to Philippine independence. 
A)  the formal recognition of the Soviet Union. 
B)  joining the League of Nations. 
C)  establishing military bases in China. 
D)  his support of the Tydings-McDuffie Act. 
E)  his commitment to Philippine independence.

Question 5

Franklin Roosevelt undermined the London Economic Conference because

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A)  its members insisted on rigid adherence to the gold standard. 
B)  any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurt America's recovery from the Great Depression. 
C)  such an agreement would involve the United States militarily with the League of Nations. 
D)  the delegates refused to work on reviving international trade. 
E)  it was dominated by British and Swiss bankers. 
A)  its members insisted on rigid adherence to the gold standard. 
B)  any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurt America's recovery from the Great Depression. 
C)  such an agreement would involve the United States militarily with the League of Nations. 
D)  the delegates refused to work on reviving international trade. 
E)  it was dominated by British and Swiss bankers.

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Lend-Lease Law

Accepted Answer

The Lend-Lease Law, officially known as

Question 7

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, and (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

A)  B, A, C 
B)  A, B, C 
C)  C, B, A 
D)  A, C, B 
E)  C, A, B 
A)  B, A, C 
B)  A, B, C 
C)  C, B, A 
D)  A, C, B 
E)  C, A, B

Question 8

By June 1940, a strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor ​

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A)  the America First position of keeping America out of the European war at all costs. 
B)  declaring war on Nazi Germany and sending American troops to aid the Allies in fighting the Nazis. 
C)  permitting U.S. volunteers to fight in Britain. 
D)  seeking a peaceful accommodation with Adolf Hitler over Europe that accepted the fall of France. 
E)  providing Britain with "all aid short of war," at the risk of armed hostilities with Germany. 
A)  the America First position of keeping America out of the European war at all costs. 
B)  declaring war on Nazi Germany and sending American troops to aid the Allies in fighting the Nazis. 
C)  permitting U.S. volunteers to fight in Britain. 
D)  seeking a peaceful accommodation with Adolf Hitler over Europe that accepted the fall of France. 
E)  providing Britain with "all aid short of war," at the risk of armed hostilities with Germany.

Question 9

Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

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A)  revoke all the neutrality laws. 
B)  expand naval patrols in the Atlantic. 
C)  enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry basis. 
D)  call for the quarantining of aggressor nations. 
E)  pass a conscription law. 
A)  revoke all the neutrality laws. 
B)  expand naval patrols in the Atlantic. 
C)  enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry basis. 
D)  call for the quarantining of aggressor nations. 
E)  pass a conscription law.

Question 10

Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

Accepted Answer

A)  in order to win support from American Catholics. 
B)  because the Soviet leadership seemed to be modifying its harsher communist policies. 
C)  in hope of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany. 
D)  to win favor with American liberals and leftists. 
E)  to import grain from the Ukraine for Americans left hungry from the Great Depression. 
A)  in order to win support from American Catholics. 
B)  because the Soviet leadership seemed to be modifying its harsher communist policies. 
C)  in hope of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany. 
D)  to win favor with American liberals and leftists. 
E)  to import grain from the Ukraine for Americans left hungry from the Great Depression.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act

Accepted Answer

The Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (RTAA

Question 12

Explain what the text authors mean by their remark that in the 1930s, "Congress was one war too late with its [neutrality] legislation." Do you agree with the text's authors harsh critique of the goals and consequences of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937? Cite specific historical examples from events in the 1930s, such as the Spanish Civil War and the growing expansionist gains of Nazi Germany before World War II, to defend your view.

Accepted Answer

The remark that in the 1930s, "Congress

Question 13

President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

Accepted Answer

A)  lowered tariffs to increase trade. 
B)  encouraged trade only with Latin America. 
C)  continued the policy that had persisted since the Civil War. 
D)  was reversed only after World War II. 
E)  sought protection for key U.S. industries through high tariffs with competitive European and Latin American countries. 
A)  lowered tariffs to increase trade. 
B)  encouraged trade only with Latin America. 
C)  continued the policy that had persisted since the Civil War. 
D)  was reversed only after World War II. 
E)  sought protection for key U.S. industries through high tariffs with competitive European and Latin American countries.

Question 14

Assess President Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy from 1935 to 1941. When and why did he move from isolationism to interventionism in the European war?How didPresidentRoosevelt use his political and diplomatic skills to guide the reluctant American public away from isolationism and toward support for interventionism? Was Roosevelt honest and far-sighted, as his supporters claimed, or cunningly deceptive, as his isolationist detractors asserted, or a little of both, as he moved to upgrade quickly American military preparedness and provide increasing military assistance and support to Great Britain in the European war? Defend your positions with specific historical examples.

Accepted Answer

President Roosevelt's conduct of America

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Pearl Harbor

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base locate

Question 16

President Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because

Accepted Answer

A)  he perceived this new policy as a logical extension of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt's Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. 
B)  Congress had repealed the Monroe Doctrine. 
C)  he feared the spread of communism in the region. 
D)  the policy was part of the neutrality stance taken by the United States. 
E)  he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against dictators. 
A)  he perceived this new policy as a logical extension of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt's Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. 
B)  Congress had repealed the Monroe Doctrine. 
C)  he feared the spread of communism in the region. 
D)  the policy was part of the neutrality stance taken by the United States. 
E)  he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against dictators.

Question 17

It is a common observation that American foreign policy often reflects domestic politics. In what way did domestic considerations influence the Roosevelt administration's recognition of the Soviet Union, adoption of a Good Neighbor policy, and extension of independence to the Philippines?

Accepted Answer

The Roosevelt administration's recogniti

Question 18

As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's withdrawal from the London Economic Conference

Accepted Answer

A)  inflation in the United States was reduced. 
B)  the United States was voted out of the League of Nations. 
C)  tensions rose between the United States and Britain. 
D)  the United States began to pull out of the Depression. 
E)  the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened. 
A)  inflation in the United States was reduced. 
B)  the United States was voted out of the League of Nations. 
C)  tensions rose between the United States and Britain. 
D)  the United States began to pull out of the Depression. 
E)  the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened.

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Isolationism refers to a foreign policy

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"Quarantine Speech"

Accepted Answer

The "Quarantine Speech" refers to an imp

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -America First Committee

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk in the fall of 1941

Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of , Hitler's invasion of , and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of .

One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was

Franklin Roosevelt undermined the London Economic Conference because

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lend-Lease Law

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, and (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

By June 1940, a strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor

Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act

President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Pearl Harbor

President Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because

It is a common observation that American foreign policy often reflects domestic politics. In what way did domestic considerations influence the Roosevelt administration's recognition of the Soviet Union, adoption of a Good Neighbor policy, and extension of independence to the Philippines?

As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's withdrawal from the London Economic Conference

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Quarantine Speech"

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: -America First Committee

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk in the fall of 1941

Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of ____, Hitler's invasion of ____, and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of ____.

One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was

Franklin Roosevelt undermined the London Economic Conference because

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lend-Lease Law

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, and (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

By June 1940, a strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor ​

Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act

President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Pearl Harbor

President Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because

It is a common observation that American foreign policy often reflects domestic politics. In what way did domestic considerations influence the Roosevelt administration's recognition of the Soviet Union, adoption of a Good Neighbor policy, and extension of independence to the Philippines?

As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's withdrawal from the London Economic Conference

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Quarantine Speech"

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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Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of , Hitler's invasion of , and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of .

By June 1940, a strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor