Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of Joseph Stalin.

Accepted Answer

Leader of the Soviet Union who initially allied with Hitler, only to later cooperate with the Allies.

Question 2

By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the United States because President Franklin Roosevelt

Accepted Answer

A)  was committed to Britain and Holland retaining their colonial assets and economic power in the Dutch East Indies. 
B)  had in 1941 imposed a freezing of assets and a cessation of all shipments and other critical raw materials in an effort to persuade Japan to withdraw from China. 
C)  demanded Japan renew its trade with America. 
D)  break its treaty of nonaggression with Germany. 
E)  None of these choices are correct. 
A)  was committed to Britain and Holland retaining their colonial assets and economic power in the Dutch East Indies. 
B)  had in 1941 imposed a freezing of assets and a cessation of all shipments and other critical raw materials in an effort to persuade Japan to withdraw from China. 
C)  demanded Japan renew its trade with America. 
D)  break its treaty of nonaggression with Germany. 
E)  None of these choices are correct. B

Question 3

One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when

Accepted Answer

A)  Americans helped some German and Austrian Jews seek refuge in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. 
B)  American Zionist organizations helped Romanian Jews escape to Israel. 
C)  the U.S. Air Force bombed the rail lines leading to Auschwitz. 
D)  American agents enabled French Jews to escape across the Pyrenees into Spain. 
E)  Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped several thousand Hungarian Jews escape Nazi tyranny. 
A)  Americans helped some German and Austrian Jews seek refuge in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. 
B)  American Zionist organizations helped Romanian Jews escape to Israel. 
C)  the U.S. Air Force bombed the rail lines leading to Auschwitz. 
D)  American agents enabled French Jews to escape across the Pyrenees into Spain. 
E)  Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped several thousand Hungarian Jews escape Nazi tyranny. E

Question 4

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 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937.

Accepted Answer

A set of restrictions on trave

Question 6

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States

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A)  promised aid to the Soviets but did not deliver. 
B)  refused to provide any military or economic assistance. 
C)  gave only nonmilitary aid to Russia. 
D)  made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets. 
E)  sent U.S. ships to Soviet naval bases. 
A)  promised aid to the Soviets but did not deliver. 
B)  refused to provide any military or economic assistance. 
C)  gave only nonmilitary aid to Russia. 
D)  made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets. 
E)  sent U.S. ships to Soviet naval bases.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of Benito Mussolini.

Accepted Answer

Fascist di

Question 8

From 1925 to 1940, the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequence

Accepted Answer

A)  embargo to lend-lease to cash-and-carry. 
B)  cash-and-carry to lend-lease to embargo. 
C)  lend-lease to cash-and-carry to embargo. 
D)  embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease. 
E)  lend-lease to embargo to cash-and-carry. 
A)  embargo to lend-lease to cash-and-carry. 
B)  cash-and-carry to lend-lease to embargo. 
C)  lend-lease to cash-and-carry to embargo. 
D)  embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease. 
E)  lend-lease to embargo to cash-and-carry.

Question 9

President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

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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 10

Identify and state the historical significance of theCommittee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.

Accepted Answer

Propaganda group org

Question 11

As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt developed more generous policies of

Accepted Answer

A)  encouraging Mexican immigration into the United States. 
B)  removing American controls on Haiti, Cuba, and Panama. 
C)  supporting Latin American strongmen in Argentina and Brazil. 
D)  returning the Guantanamo naval base to Cuban control. 
E)  moving Puerto Rico toward its independence. 
A)  encouraging Mexican immigration into the United States. 
B)  removing American controls on Haiti, Cuba, and Panama. 
C)  supporting Latin American strongmen in Argentina and Brazil. 
D)  returning the Guantanamo naval base to Cuban control. 
E)  moving Puerto Rico toward its independence.

Question 12

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.

Question 13

In the 1940 presidential election campaign, both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, agreed that the

Accepted Answer

A)  United States should supply military aid to Britain and the Allies. 
B)  United States should actively find a way to enter the war. 
C)  United States should strengthen its defenses. 
D)  New Deal should be abandoned. 
E)  U.S. military should directly aid China. 
A)  United States should supply military aid to Britain and the Allies. 
B)  United States should actively find a way to enter the war. 
C)  United States should strengthen its defenses. 
D)  New Deal should be abandoned. 
E)  U.S. military should directly aid China.

Question 14

Americans' fervent isolationism in the 1930s can best be attributed to

Accepted Answer

A)  their regrets about participating in WWI. 
B)  bitter memories of the ungrateful nations that defaulted on their WWI debts. 
C)  the totalizing impact of the Great Depression and the need to focus on getting out of it. 
D)  the failure of most Americans to appreciate the gravity of the prospective threat to American national security posed by the militaristic, expansionist forces being harnessed during the 1930s by the Fascist dictators of Germany, Japan, and Italy. 
E)  All of these choices are correct. 
A)  their regrets about participating in WWI. 
B)  bitter memories of the ungrateful nations that defaulted on their WWI debts. 
C)  the totalizing impact of the Great Depression and the need to focus on getting out of it. 
D)  the failure of most Americans to appreciate the gravity of the prospective threat to American national security posed by the militaristic, expansionist forces being harnessed during the 1930s by the Fascist dictators of Germany, Japan, and Italy. 
E)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the Lend-Lease Law.

Accepted Answer

Allowed for an unlimited numbe

Question 16

In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the United States

Accepted Answer

A)  "most favored nation" trade status. 
B)  a role in developing the atomic bomb. 
C)  eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere. 
D)  $10 million dollars. 
E)  six air bases in Scotland and Iceland. 
A)  "most favored nation" trade status. 
B)  a role in developing the atomic bomb. 
C)  eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere. 
D)  $10 million dollars. 
E)  six air bases in Scotland and Iceland.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the invasion of Ethiopia.

Accepted Answer

Mussolini's successf

Question 18

Could the United States have done more to enable Jews to escape from Nazi Germany and later its Nazi-occupied countries in Europe? To what extent was anti-Semitism in the U.S. government and in Congress a major reason more was not done, or was U.S. reluctance to become involved simply another manifestation of domestic political limitations, caused by the strength of isolationism in the 1930s and into 1940, experienced by the Roosevelt administration?

Accepted Answer

The United States could have done more t

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of "cash-and-carry basis".

Accepted Answer

Neutrality Act of 19

Question 20

Among the principles of the Atlantic Charter signed by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill were

Accepted Answer

A)  national self-determination. 
B)  disarmament. 
C)  neutrality. 
D)  collective security (a new League of Nations). 
E)  the creation of a new international organization. 
A)  national self-determination. 
B)  disarmament. 
C)  neutrality. 
D)  collective security (a new League of Nations). 
E)  the creation of a new international organization.

Exam 32: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

Identify and state the historical significance of Joseph Stalin.

By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the United States because President Franklin Roosevelt

One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States

Identify and state the historical significance of Benito Mussolini.

From 1925 to 1940, the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequence

President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

Identify and state the historical significance of theCommittee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.

As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt developed more generous policies of

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

In the 1940 presidential election campaign, both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, agreed that the

Americans' fervent isolationism in the 1930s can best be attributed to

Identify and state the historical significance of the Lend-Lease Law.

In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the United States

Identify and state the historical significance of the invasion of Ethiopia.

Identify and state the historical significance of "cash-and-carry basis".

Among the principles of the Atlantic Charter signed by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill were

New World Beginnings

The Contest for North America

Settling the English Colonies

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

The Road to Revolution

America Secedes From the Empire

The Confederation and the Constitution

Launching the New Ship of State

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

The Rise of a Mass Democracy

Forging the National Economy

The Ferment of Reform and Culture

The South and the Slavery Controversy

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

Renewing the Sectional Struggle

Drifting Toward Disunion

Girding for War the North and the South

The Furnace of Civil War

The Ordeal of Reconstruction

The Industrial Era Dawns

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

America Moves to the City

The Conquest of the West

Rumbles of Discontent

Empire and Expansion

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War

American Life in the Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression and the New Deal

America in World War II

The Cold War Begins

American Zenith

The Stormy Sixties

A Sea of Troubles

The Resurgence of Conservatism

America Confronts the Post Cold War Era

The American People Face a New Century

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