Exam 25: The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

In September of 1940,Congress passed the ________ Act,inaugurating the first peacetime draft in American history.

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

The American preference for neutrality increased in popularity in October 1935 when Mussolini finally launched his anticipated attack on Ethiopia.

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.

President Roosevelt's first response to the war in Europe was to request that Congress extend lend-lease to the Allies.

The Munich agreement of 1938

By September 1941,

The 1928 ________ was a multilateral treaty to outlaw war.

The Anschluss of 1938 was between Germany and ________.

What steps were taken during the 1930s to reinforce the American retreat from Europe? What steps did the Roosevelt administration take to lead the United States away from isolationism?

President Hoover upheld the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

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

President Roosevelt's decision to give American destroyers to Great Britain was consistent with the "cash-and-carry" provisions of the Neutrality Acts.

What were the weaknesses of U.S.foreign policy during the 1920s?

Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,the United States knew that a Japanese attack was imminent,but it did not know where the attack would take place.

In what ways did the Hoover administration continue past foreign policy? In what way did it break from the past?

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

President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy"

Under the Dawes Plan,the United States lent money to European countries to repay war debts owed to the United States.

Was war between the United States and Japan inevitable? Could it have been avoided?