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| After World War I, American public opinion generally supported: |
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| During the 1920s American global interests such as international trade and investment: |
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| expanded and prevented the United States from entirely withdrawing from the world, despite strong isolationist sentiment. |
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| By limiting tonnage on capital ships (battleships and aircraft carriers) alone, the Five-Power Treaty (1922) for naval disarmament had what unintended effect? |
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| The treaty sparked a naval arms race in cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and other smaller craft that had not been restricted. |
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| The Nine-Power Treaty pledged the signers to: |
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| support the principle of the Open Door |
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| Which statement accurately describes the treaties that came out of the Washington Naval Conference of 1921 like the Kellogg-Briand pack? |
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| The treaties were actually without obligation and without mechanisms for enforcement, and ultimately proved ineffective. |
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| outlawed war as an instrument of national policy among the signatories (not signed by Soviet Union and Japan, then Hitler struck it down when he came). |
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| America's "good neighbor" policy: |
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| supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America |
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| During 1931-1932, Japan invaded and conquered what territory in East Asia? |
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| What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s? |
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| Both had established fascist forms of government |
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| During the early 1930s, isolationist sentiment in the United States: |
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| The Roosevelt administration's desire to renew diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1933: |
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| reflected an effort to increase foreign markets. |
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| The Neutrality Act of 1935: |
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| forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations. |
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| During the Spanish Civil War: |
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| Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco |
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| The 1939 Neutrality Act's "cash and carry" provision: |
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| permitted the United States to sell arms to retain and France if they paid up front and carried their purchases on their own ships. |
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| The invasion of what country provoked England and France to declare war on Germany? |
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| What effect did the German occupation of Czechoslovakia have on FDR? |
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| He no longer pretended impartiality in the impending European struggle. |
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| The German blitzkrieg of spring 1940 followed the long lull in Europe fighting after the invasion of Poland, involved German attacks on France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands, Germany defeated France in just over two months, and German troops cut off British troops and prevented them from providing assistance are true EXCEPT: |
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| Germany carefully avoided attacks on neutral nations and only targeted professed enemies. |
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| In the Battle of Britain during 1940: |
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| the British turned back a massive German air attack and forced Germany to postpone its invasion plans. |
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| In the late summer of 1940, President Roosevelt agreed to send fifty "over aged" destroyers to Britain in return for: |
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| ninety-nine year leases on a series of British naval and air bases in the Western Hemisphere. |
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| Which of the following statements about the 1940 presidential election is true? |
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| Franklin Roosevelt won a third term as president. |
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| The passage of the lend-lease bill in 1941 signaled what about American opinion? |
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| Isolationist strength was weakening. |
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| Which of the following statements about the European war between June 1940 and 1941 is true? |
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| The Nazi juggernaut appeared unstoppable. |
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| Italy's offensives launched in 1940 against Greece and British forces in Egypt: |
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| required German assistance to succeed. |
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| In June 1941 Germany widened the war by: |
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| invading the Soviet Union. |
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| was a joint British-American statement of anti-Axis war aims. |
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| What significant objective motivated Japanese expansion during 1940-1941? |
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| This expansion provided access to vital strategic material. |
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| During the summer of 1941, the United States attempted to restrain Japanese expansion by: |
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| restricting oil exports to Japan and freezing Japanese assets in the United States. |
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| As U.S. Japanese tensions heightened in the summer and autumn of 1941, the United States insisted it would open trade with Japan only after that country: |
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| withdrew from French Indochina and China. |
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| All of the following statements about the attack on Pearl Harbor are true EXCEPT: |
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| a specific attack on Pearl Harbor had been long expected by American officials. |
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| Following the Pearl Harbor attack: |
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| Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States. |
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| was the American spokesman at Washington Naval Conference. |
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| proposed to lower tariffs with reciprocal trade agreements. |
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| wrote 1928 document denying that the Monroe Doctrine justified U.S. intervention in Latin America. |
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| was secretary of state under Coolidge and helped shape Pact of Paris. |
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| lost the presidential election in 1940. |
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| with American president, drew up Atlantic Charter. |
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| signed an agreement saying that "Japan has special interests in China" |
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| was the president who declined to offer China substantive assistance after the Manchurian Incident. |
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| was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1940. |
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| as president invited eight countries to the Washington Naval Conference. |
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| T/F: As a nonmember, the United States refused to have anything to do with the League of Nations in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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| T/F: Most European countries defaulted on their war debts during the Great Depression. |
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| T/F: The "good neighbor" policies of the 1920s and 1930s saw the United States permanently remove all its troops from Latin America. |
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| T/F: At the 1933 Pan American Conference, the United States supported a resolution that declared no nation "has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another." |
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| T/F: The United States offered no substantive help to China after the Japanese conquered Manchuria in 1931-1932. |
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| T/F: American isolationism declined in turmoil of the Great Depression of the early 1930s. |
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| T/F: An incident at the Marco Polo Bridge in 1937 triggered a full-scale war between Japan and French Indochina. |
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| T/F: The "cash and carry" provision of the 1937 Neutrality Law permitted belligerent nations to purchase American goods, including arms and munitions, so long as they were transported on the belligerent nation's own ships. |
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| T/F:Following the aerial Battle of Britain, Germany invaded England. |
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| T/F: The 1940 destroyers for bases agreement between the United States and Britain permitted the United States to give England fifty destroyers in exchange for leases on British bases in the Caribbean. |
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| T/F: In the presidential election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt became the first president to win a third term. |
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| T/F: The Atlantic Charter definitively stated that the United States would remain neutral in Britain's war against Germany. |
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| T/F: By the autumn of 1941, the United States and Germany had reached an understanding to minimize their escalating naval confrontations. |
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| T/F: The United States refused to implement any punitive measures against Japan following its establishment of a protectorate over French Indochina in 1941. |
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| T/F: Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was only one part of a larger offensive launched into Southeast Asia and the Pacific. |
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