APUSH: Chapter 34; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941

D) help Britain and France by letting them buy supplies and munitions in the United States.

The "cash-and-carry"Neutrality Act of 1939 was cleverly designed to . . .

A) guarantee that American policy would not benefit either side in World War II.

B) enable American merchants to provide loans and ships to the Allies.

C) prepare America for involvement in the war.

D) help Britain and France by letting them buy supplies and munitions in the United States.

A) the United States would give Britain fifty American destroyers in exchange for eight British bases in North America.

The "destroyers-for-bases" deal of 1940 provided that . . .

A) the United States would give Britain fifty American destroyers in exchange for eight British bases in North America.

B) the United States would give Britain new bases in North America in exchange for fifty British destroyers.

C) if America entered the war it would receive eight bases in Britain in exchange for American destroyers.

D) the British would transfer captured French destroyers to the United States in exchange for the use of American bases in East Asia.

A) he wanted to concentrate primarily on the recovery of the American domestic economy.

Roosevelt torpedoed the London Economic Conference of 1933 because . . .

A) he wanted to concentrate primarily on the recovery of the American domestic economy.

B) he saw the hand of Hitler and Mussolini behind the conference's proposals.

C) he was firmly committed to gold standard.

D) he wanted economic cooperation only between the United States and Britain, not the rest of Europe.

C) the Philippines.

Seeking to withdraw from overseas commitments and colonial expense, the United States in 1934 promised future independence to . . .

A) Puerto Rico.

B) the Virgin Islands.

C) the Philippines.

D) Cuba.

B) a renunciation of American intervention in Mexico or elsewhere in the region.

Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America included . . .

A) a substantial program of American economic aid for Latin American countries.

B) a renunciation of American intervention in Mexico or elsewhere in the region.

C) an American military presence to block German influence in Argentina and Brazil.

D) an American pledge to transfer the Panama Canal to Panama by the year 2000.

D) a deeper commitment to remain isolated from European problems.

The immediate response of most Americans to the rise of the Fascist dictators Mussolini and Hitler was . . .

A) a call for a new military alliance to contain aggression.

B) a focus on political cooperation with Britain and the Soviet Union.

C) support for the Spanish government against Fascist rebels.

D) a deeper commitment to remain isolated from European problems.

B) Americans could not sail on belligerent ships, sell munitions, or make loans to nations at war.

The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 provided that . . .

A) the United States would remain neutral in any war between Britain and Germany.

B) Americans could not sail on belligerent ships, sell munitions, or make loans to nations at war.

C) no belligerent could conduct propaganda campaigns, sell goods, or make loans within the United States.

D) the United States would take the lead in neutral efforts to end the wars in China and Ethiopia.

D) to cripple the Loyalist government while the Italians and Germans armed Franco.

The effect of the strict American arms embargo during the civil war between the Loyalist Spanish government and Franco's Fascist rebels was . . .

A) to encourage a negotiated political settlement between the warring parties.

B) to strengthen the Spanish government's ability to resist Franco.

C) to push Britain and the Soviet Union to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.

D) to cripple the Loyalist government while the Italians and Germans armed Franco.

C) Munich.

The policy of appeasing the Fascist dictators reached its low point in 1938 when Britain and France sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler in the conference at . . .

A) Geneva.

B) Versailles.

C) Munich.

D) Prague.

B) the fall of France and the Battle of Britain.

The twin events that precipitated the reversal of American policy from neutrality to active, though nonbelligerent, support of the Allied cause were . . .

A) the Munich Conference and the invasion of Poland.

B) the fall of France and the Battle of Britain.

C) the fall of Poland and the invasion of Norway.

D) the invasion of the Soviet Union and the German submarine attacks on American shipping.

D) foreign policy.

In the campaign of 1940, the Republican nominee Willkie essentially agreed with Roosevelt on the issue of . . .

A) the New Deal.

B) the third term.

C) Roosevelt's use of power in office.

D) foreign policy.

B) an end to the pretense of American neutrality between Britain and Germany.

The Lend-Lease Act clearly marked . . .

A) the end of isolationist opposition to Roosevelt's foreign policy.

B) an end to the pretense of American neutrality between Britain and Germany.

C) a secret Roosevelt plan to involve the United States in war with Japan.

D) the beginning of opposition in Congress to Roosevelt's foreign policy.

A) self-determination for oppressed peoples and a new international peacekeeping organization.

The provisions of the Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 included . . .

A) self-determination for oppressed peoples and a new international peacekeeping organization.

B) a permanent alliance between Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

C) a pledge to rid the world of dictators and to establish democratic governments in Germany and Italy.

D) an agreement to oppose Soviet communism, but only after Hitler was defeated.

C) Iceland.

By the fall of 1940, American warships were being attacked by German destroyers near the coast of . . .

A) Spain.

B) Ireland.

C) Iceland.

D) Canada.

C) the Japanese refusal to withdraw from China.

The key issue in the failed negotiations with Japan just before Pear Harbor was . . .

A) the refusal of the Japanese to withdraw their navy from Hawaiian waters.

B) Americans' insistence on their right to expand naval power in Asia.

C) the Japanese refusal to withdraw from China.

D) the Japanese refusal to guarantee the security of the Philippines.