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Franklin Roosevelt undermined the London Economic Converence because

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any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurt America's recovery from depression.

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As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's withdrawal from the London Economic Conference,

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the trend towards extreme nationalism was strengthened.

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One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was

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the formal recognition of the Soviet Union

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Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

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in hopes of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany

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In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the United States was motivated by

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the realization that the islands were economic liabilities.

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Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because

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he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere European and Asian dictators.

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

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President Roosevelt withdrew American marines from Haiti, Cuba and Panama

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The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

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increased America's foreign trade.

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President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

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lowered tariffs to increase trade

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

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retreating further into isolation

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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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Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, Spain

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By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to

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forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum

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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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balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. allies by trading neither

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The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,

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Americans would be prohibited from sailing on ths ships of warring nations

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

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embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease

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America's neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 allowed

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allowed Spain to become a fascist dictatorship

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Franklin Roosevelt's sensational "Quarantine Speech"in 1937 resulted in

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a wave of protest by isolationists

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In September 1938 in Munich, Germany,

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Britain and France consented to Germany's taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.

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In 1938 the British and French bought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference by effectively handing over the nation of

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Czechoslovakia.

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Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union,

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Germany invaded Poland and started World War II.

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The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty was

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Poland.

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Probably the greatest obstacle to America's acceptance of more Jewish refugees from Europe was

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a failure of moral imagination and belief that the Holocause could actually be happening

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The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that

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bombing would divert essential military resources.

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During the 1930s, the United States admitted _________________________ Jewish refugees from Nazism.

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?

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Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

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was to pass a conscription law

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America's neutrality effectively ended when

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when France fell to Germany

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

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eight valuable naval bases.

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By 1940 American public opinion had come to favor

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providing Britain with "all aid short of war."

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The surprise Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was

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was Wendell L. Willkie

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

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belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis.

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The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except

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another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases trade

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

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the United States made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets.

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

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avoided attacking Roosevelt for his increasingly interventionist policies

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After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,

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Congress allowed the arming of United States merchant vessels

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Japan believed that it was forced into war with the United States because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan

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withdraw from China

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because

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President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaya or the Philippines

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On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans

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still wanted to keep the United States out of war

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Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty.

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A, C, B

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

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A, C, B

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The fundamental strategic decision of World War II made by President Roosevelt and the British at the very beginning was

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to concentrate first on the war in Europe

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Overall, most ethnic groups in the United States during World War II

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further assimilated into American society.

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The minority group most adversely affected by Washington's wartime policies

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was Japanese-Americans

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The general American attitude toward World War II was

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less idealistic and ideological and more practical than the outlook in World War I

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In the period from 1885 to 1924, Japanese immigrants to the United States were

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select representatives of their nation.

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When the United States entered World War II in December 1941,

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a majority of Americans had no clear idea of what the war was about.

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During World War II, the United States government commissioned the production of synthetic _______________ in order to offset the loss of access to prewar supplies in East Asia.

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rubber

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Match each of the wartime agencies below with its correct function: A: War Production B: Office of Price Administration C: War Labor Board D: Fair Employment Practice Commission 1. assigned priorities with respect to the use of raw materials and transportataion facilities 2. Controlled inflation by rationing essential goods 3. imposed ceilings on wage increases saw to it that no hiring discrimination practices were used aginaist Blacks seeking employment in war industries

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A1 B2 C3 D4

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While most American workers were strongly committed to the war effort, wartime production was disrupted by strikes led by the

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United Mine Workers.

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The main reason the majority of women war workers left the labor force at the end of WW II was

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family obligations

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African Americans did all of the following during World War II except

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fight in integrated combat units.

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The northward migration of African Americans accelerated after World War II because

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mechanical cotton pickers came into use.

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By the end of World War II, the heart of the United States' African- American community had shifted to

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northern cities.

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The national debt increased most during

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World War II

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Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through

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borrowing.

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The first naval battle in history in which all the fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of

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the Coral Sea.

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The tide of Japanese conquest in the Pacific was turned following the Battle of

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Midway.

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The Japanese made a crucial mistake in 1942 in their attempt to control much of the Pacific when they

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overextended themselves instead of digging in and consolidating their gains

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In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on a strategy of

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"island hopping" across the South Pacific while bypassing Japanese strongholds.

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Until spring 1943, perhaps Hitler's greatest opportunities of defeating Britain and winning the war was

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that the American-British-Soviet alliance would collapse.

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Hitler's advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of _______________, after which his fortunes gradually declined.

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Stalingrad

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Roosevelt's and Churchill's insistence on the absolute and "unconditional surrender" of Germany

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was criticized mainly by opponents who believed that such a surrender demand would encourage the enemy to resist as long as possible

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President Roosevelt's promise to the Soviets to open a second front in western Europe by the end of 1942

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utterly impossible to keep

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Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) V-J Day, (B) V-E Day, (C) D Day, (D) Invasion of Italy.

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D, C, B, A

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The major consequence of the Allied conquest of Sicily in August 1943 was

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the overthrow of Mussolini and Italy's unconditional surrender

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After the Italian surrender in August 1943,

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the German army poured into Italy and stalled the Allied advance.

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The real impact of the Italian front on World War II may have been that it

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may have been that it delayed the D-Day invasion and allowed the Soviet Union to advance further into Eastern Europe.

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At the wartime Teheran Conference,

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plans were made for the opening of a second front in Europe.

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In a sense, Franklin Roosevelt was the "forgotten man" at the Democratic Convention in 1944 because

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so much attention was focused on who would gain the vice presidency.

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As a result of the Battle of Leyte Gulf,

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Japan was finished as a naval power.

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The Potsdam conference

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issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or be destroyed.

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The "unconditional surrender" policy toward Japan was finally modified by

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agreeing to let the Japanese keep Emperor Hirohito on the throne

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Which of the following was not among the qualities of the American participation in World War II?

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a higher percentage of military casualties than any other Allied nation

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In early 1945, the United States was eager to have the Soviet Union participate in the projected invasion of Japan because

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Soviet help could reduce the number of American casualties

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Which one of the following is least related to the other four? 1. Smith-Connally Act 2. A. Philip Randolph 3. Fair Employment Practices Commission 4. racial discrimination in wartime industry 5. proposed "Negro March on Washington."

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Smith-Connally Act

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During World War II, most Americans economically experienced

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prosperity and a doubling of personal income

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During World War II

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labor unions substantially increased their membership

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Arrange these wartime conferences in chronological order: A. Potsdam, B. Casablanca, C. Teheran

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BCA

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The Allies postponed opening a second front in Europe until 1944 because

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of British reluctance and lack of adequate resources

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During World War II, American Indians

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moved off reservations in large numbers

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Hitler's last-ditch attempt to achieve a victory against the Americans and British came in

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the Battle of Bulge

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