Question 1

Throughout most of the 1930s, majorities of the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by

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A)   pressuring President Roosevelt to provide American military aid to the victims of fascist aggression.
B)   giving generous economic and humanitarian help to the victims of fascist aggression.
C)   advocating the U.S. sign a mutual military defense agreement with Great Britain and France.
D)   demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations.
E)   retreating further into isolationism.

Question 2

The text states that the ultimate cause of America's entry into World War II was the fact that it pursued policies in both Europe and Asia that invited retaliation. Do you agree with the authors' assessment of why America ultimately entered World War II? If not, why not? If so, what were those policies, and why were Americans willing to risk war to uphold them?

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of isolationism.

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of Josef Goebbels.

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Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of George Gallup.

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Question 6

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

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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 7

The 1941 Lend-Lease program was all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   a focus of intense debate between internationalists and isolationists.
B)   a direct challenge to the Axis dictators.
C)   the point when all pretense of American neutrality was abandoned.
D)   the catalyst that caused American factories to prepare for all-out war production.
E)   another privately arranged executive deal between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, like the destroyers-for-bases trade.

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the War Refugee Board.

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Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of Charles Lindbergh.

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Question 10

America's attempt to remain neutral in the war between the Axis powers and the Allies came to an end when

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A)   Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
B)   Germany attacked Poland.
C)   the conscription law was passed in 1940.
D)   France fell to Germany.
E)   Italy "stabbed France in the back."

Question 11

In 1940, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie avoided deepening the sharp divisions among the American people when he

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A)   avoided attacking the New Deal.
B)   refused to raise the racial issue.
C)   declined to criticize Roosevelt for seeking a third term.
D)   avoided attacking the draft.
E)   avoided attacking Roosevelt for his increasingly interventionist policies.

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the Holocaust.

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Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the Battle of Britain.

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Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of Winston Churchill.

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Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of Japanese militarism and the "China incident" of 1937.

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Question 16

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?

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Question 17

In response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist attacks, President Eisenhower

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A)   publicly denounced him only after he attacked General George Marshall.
B)   quietly encouraged him to continue his attacks on Democrats.
C)   publicly opposed his ruthless tactics but privately enjoyed his personal charm.
D)   declined to confront the senator's irresponsible accusations of communism against upstanding and loyal government officials, effectively allowing him to control personnel policy at the State Department.
E)   privately supported him but publicly kept his distance.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the Rome-Berlin axis.

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Question 19

Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the United States resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   abandonment of the traditional policy of freedom of the seas.
B)   a decline in the Navy and other armed forces.
C)   making no distinction between aggressors and victims.
D)   spurring aggressors along their path of conquest.
E)   balancing the geopolitical and economic scales between fascist nations and U.S. democratic allies by prohibiting the United States from trading with either group of nations.

Question 20

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

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

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