Exam 25: The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

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

In December of 1941,Germany declared war on the United States before the United States declared war on Germany.

After Hitler took all of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939,Britain and France gave assurances to the country of ________ that they would come to its assistance if it were invaded.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

In his foreign policy for Latin America,President Herbert Hoover

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.

A Senate committee headed by Senator _______ of North Dakota investigated the reasons behind the American entry into World War I.

In 1933,the Roosevelt administration extended diplomatic recognition to ________.

Explain the evolution of American diplomacy toward Japan between 1921 and 1941.

Germany began World War II in Europe days after

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

How were the activities of other nations affected by American isolationism in the 1930s?

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

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

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

Franklin Roosevelt's Republican opponent in 1940 was ________.

By 1940 the American ambassador to Great Britain,Joseph Kennedy,thought that the British cause was hopeless.

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

In 1938,Anschluss

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