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35. Franklin Roosevelt refused to support the London Economic Conference because

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

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36. As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to support the London Conference,

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the trend towards extreme nationalism was strengthened

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37. 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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38. 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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39. 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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40. 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 against European and Asian dictators

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41. As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt

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withdrew American marines from Haiti

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42. The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

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increased America's foreign trade

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43. President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy

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lowered tariffs to increase trade

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44. 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 isolationism

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45. 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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46. 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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47. Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the United States

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

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48. 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 the ships of the warring nations

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

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Spain to become a fascist dictatorship

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51. Franklin Roosevelt's sensational "Quarantine Speech" resulted in

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a wave of protest by isolationists.

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52. 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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53. In 1938 the British and French bought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference at the expense of

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Czechoslovakia

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

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Poland

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56. Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?

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Finland

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57. All of the following factors contributed to the weakness and lateness of America's efforts to aid Europe's threatened Jews except

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he belief that most Jews would be better off migrating to Israel

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58. 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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59. During World War II, the United States saved Jews from Nazism

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about 250,000

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

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pass a conscription law

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61. America's neutrality effectively ended when

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France fell to Germany

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62. In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the United States

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six air bases in Scotland and Iceland

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63. By 1940 American public opinion began to favor

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providing Britain with "all aid short of war."

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64. The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was

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Wendell L. Willkie

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65. 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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66. 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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67. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States

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made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets

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68. The Atlantic Charter, developed by the United States and Britain, was also endorsed by

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the Soviet Union

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

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leave China

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71. 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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72. 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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73. Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty.

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Munich Conference, Hitler-Stalin treaty, German invasion of Poland

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74. 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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Fall of France, Hitler's invasion of Soviet Union, Atlantic Conference

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