Unit 20 Study Guide

1.	Franklin Roosevelt refused to support the London Economic Conference because
2.	As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's unwillingness to support the London Conference,
3.	One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was
4.	Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly
5.	In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the United States was motivated by
6.	Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because
7.	As part of his Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt
8.	The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
9.	President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign-trade policy
10.	Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by
11.	Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of __________, Hitler's invasion of __________, and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of __________.
12.	By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
13.	Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the United States resulted in all of the following except
14.	The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,
15.	From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to 815, warring nations followed this sequence:
16.	America's neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936Ä1939 allowed
17.	Franklin Roosevelt's sensational "Quarantine Speech" resulted in
18.	In September 1938 in Munich, Germany,
19.	In 1938 the British and French bought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference at the expense of
20.	Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union,

21.	The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty was
22.	Which of the following nations was not conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?
23.	All of the following factors contributed to the weakness and lateness of America's efforts to aid Europe's threatened Jews except
24.	The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that
25.	During World War II, the United States saved __________ Jews from Nazism.
26.	Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to
27.	America's neutrality effectively ended when
28.	In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the United States
29.	By 1940 American public opinion began to favor
30.	The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was
31.	Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his
32.	The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except
33.	When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States
34.	The Atlantic Charter, developed by the United States and Britain, was also endorsed by
35.	After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,
36.	Japan believed that it was forced into war with the United States because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan
37.	The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because
38.	On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans
39.	Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty.
40.	Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, 815, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

41.	As part of his plan to concentrate on alleviating the Depression at home, President Roosevelt's administration
42.	In the 1940 presidential election campaign, both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, agreed that
43.	At the Atlantic Conference, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agreed on the principles of
44.	As World War II began for the United States in 1941, President Roosevelt
45.	Once at war, America's first great challenge was to
46.	Overall, most ethnic groups in the United States during World War II
47.	Japanese-Americans were placed in concentration camps during World War II
48.	The minority group most adversely affected by Washington's wartime policies was
49.	In the 1800s the Japanese government drove many Japanese farmers off their land by
50.	In the period from 1885 to 1924, Japanese immigrants to the United States were
51.	When the United States entered World War II in December 1941,
52.	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.
53.	Match each of the wartime agencies below with its correct function:
___ A. War Production Board    1. assigned priorities with respect to 
54.	While American workers, on the whole, were committed to the war effort, several unions went on strike. The most prominent was the
55.	During World War II,
56.	The employment of more than six million women in American industry during World War II led to
57.	The main reason the majority of women war workers left the labor force at the end of WW II was

58.	African-Americans did all of the following during World War II except
59.	Which one of the following is least related to the other three?
60.	Big-government intervention received its greatest boost from
61.	The northward migration of African-Americans accelerated after World War II because
62.	During World War II, American Indians
63.	By the end of World War II, the heart of the United States' African-American community had shifted to
64.	The national debt increased most during
65.	Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through
66.	The first naval battle in history in which all the fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of
67.	The tide of Japanese conquest in the Pacific was turned following the Battle of
68.	The Japanese made a crucial mistake in 1942 in their attempt to control much of the Pacific when they
69.	In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on a strategy of
70.	The conquest of __________ was especially important, because from there Americans could conduct round-trip bombing raids on the Japanese home islands.
71.	The Allies won the Battle of the Atlantic by doing all of the following except
72.	Hitler's advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of __________, after which his fortunes gradually declined.
73.	The Allies postponed opening a second front in Europe until 1944 because
74.	The Allied demand for unconditional surrender was criticized mainly by opponents who believed that such surrender would
75.	President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announced at their wartime conference in Casablanca that their principal war aim was to
76.	Arrange these wartime conferences in chronological order: 77.	Arrange these events in chronological order: 
78.	The major consequence of the Allied conquest of Sicily in August 1943 was
79.	After the Italian surrender in August 1943,
80.	The real impact of the Italian front on World War II may have been that it
81.	At the wartime Teheran Conference,
82.	The cross-channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe was commanded by General
83.	In a sense, Franklin Roosevelt was the "forgotten man" at the Democratic Convention in 1944 because
84.	Franklin Roosevelt won the election in 1944 primarily because
85.	Action by the United States against Adolf Hitler's campaign of genocide against the Jews
86.	As a result of the Battle of Leyte Gulf,
87.	The Potsdam conference
88.	The spending of enormous sums on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that
89.	The "unconditional surrender" policy toward Japan was modified by
90.	Which of the following was not among the qualities of the American participation in World War II?