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The secretary of state of the Harding administration was

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Charles Evans Hughes

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During the Harding administration, the United States

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significantly reduced the size of its navy

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The Washington Conference of 1921

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attempted to prevent a global naval arms race

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The Five Power Pact of 1922 dealt with

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armament limitations

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All of the following nations were signatories to the Five Power Pact of 1922 except

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Russia

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact of the 1928

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was signed with wide international acclaim

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The Dawes Plan of 1924

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was designed to help England and France to reduce the amount of German reparation payments

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In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Hoover

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repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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As part of his foreign policy, President Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from

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Haiti

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In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in

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Italy

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Which of the statemetns about the rise of Adolf Hiltler in Germany is False?

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His rise was partially precipaitated by ruinous inflation

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In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria

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issued warnings to the Japanese government

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President Roosevelet's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned

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Europe

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In what became known as the 1933 "bombshell message" Roosevelt declared that

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America would reject any international agreement on currency stabilization

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In the 1930's President Roosevelt carried out international policies which

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established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union

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In 1934, the Soviet Union complained that the US had little interest in stopping the expansion of

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Japan

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President Roosevelts "Good Neighbor Policy"

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expanded iniatives begun under Herbert Hoover

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During the 1920's and 1930's, interest in pursuing an isolationist foreign policy

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reflected the sentiments of a majority of the American public

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The Neutrality Act of 1935

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included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflicts

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The Neutrality Act of 1937

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allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the US if they paid cash

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In 1937, President Roosevelt's quarantine speech

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received a decidely hostile response by the American people

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In 1937, after Japanese pilots sand the US gunboat Panay in China, President Roosevelt

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accepted Japans claim that the bombing had been an accident

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In 1938, tha anschluss

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proclaimed a union between Germany and Austria

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The Munich conference of 1938, was precipitated by a crisis over

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Czechoslovakia

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The Munich agreement of 1938

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was supported by President Roosevelt

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Germany began World War II in Europe days after

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a non aggession pact was signed between Germany and Russia

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Follwoing the outbeak of war in Europe in 1939, President Roosevelt

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declared that the US would remain neutral

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By the mid 1940's Germany had defeated

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All of these are correct (Norway, Denmark, France, and the Netherlands

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The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was

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Joseph Kennedy

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In 1940, Presidnet Roosevelt's decision to give fifty American destroyers to England

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both circimvented the cash and carry provision of the Neutrality Acts

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

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believed Germany posed a direct threat to the US

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The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940

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approved the first peactiime draft in American history

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The American First Committee

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was a powerful lobby against the US involvement in the war

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In the election of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt

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none of these answers are correct

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In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

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allowed the US to loan weapons to England to be returned when the war was over

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By Sept 1941,

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the US extented lend lease privileges to the Soviet Union

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The German sinking of the American ship Reuben James

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all of these answers are correct (triggered an American naval campaign against Germany, led Congress to approve the arming of American merchant ships, led Congress to approve American ships sailing into belligerent ports)

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In 1941, the Atlantic Charter

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saw the US and England claim to share the same common principles

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The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance between

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Japan, Germany and Italy

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In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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President Roosevelt froze all Japanese assests in the US

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Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is false

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The State Dept assumed the Japanese would never attack American interests

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In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the US

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occured before the US declared war on it

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