Deck 7: 1929-1941: The Big Breakdown-The United States and the World

Question 1

Upon assuming the presidency, FDR agreed to follow through on Hoover's international economic policies.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

FDR eventually returned to Hoover's belief that the exportation of goods was crucial to the United States's economic recovery.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

In the 1930s, the United States passed a series of Neutrality Acts that effectively forbade U.S. citizens or businesses from involving themselves in foreign wars.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The year 1937 saw a substantial turn-around of the U.S. economy.

Question 5

The entrance of the United States into World War II lifted the nation out of the Great Depression.

Question 6

Cordell Hull's economic policies proved effective in the late 1930s.

Question 7

The Import-Export Bank, established during the Great Depression, proved a failure and was promptly dismantled.

Question 8

In the years prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR was straightforward with the American people about the need to intervene in international affairs.

Question 9

The Great Depression affected Japan less than it did many other countries.

Question 10

Compare and contrast Hoover's and FDR's foreign policies, especially as they related to economic issues.

Question 11

How did U.S. foreign policy help shape the New Deal?

Question 12

The text claims that "the Neutrality Acts [passed by Congress in the 1930s] were written to prevent the previous war, not the next one." What does that mean?

Question 13

Japanese imports to U.S. markets dropped by what percent in 1930?

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40

Question 14

North Manchuria was controlled by what country prior to the Japanese invasion in 1931?

A) China
B) Korea
C) Russia
D) Mongolia

Question 15

Who served as Secretary of State under FDR?

A) Henry A. Wallace
B) Adolf A. Berle Jr.
C) Cordell Hull
D) Sumner Welles

Question 16

The 1933 Montevideo Conference concerned U.S. relations with what part of the world?

A) Mexico
B) South America
C) Europe
D) The Far East

Question 17

Who served as the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union?

A) Adolf A. Berle Jr.
B) Cordell Hull
C) Sumner Welles
D) William Bullitt

Question 18

Francisco Franco was dictator of what country?

A) Mexico
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) Nicaragua

Question 19

In 1937, the U.S. gunboat Panay was attacked by what nation?

A) Japan
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) China

Question 20

Who was Edward R. Murrow?

A) A politician
B) An actor
C) A journalist
D) A businessman

Question 21

Hitler was "appeased" by the other western powers at what city?

A) London
B) Munich
C) Berlin
D) Geneva

Question 22

In what year did the Soviet Union sign a Nonaggression Pact with Nazi Germany?

A) 1937
B) 1938
C) 1939
D) 1940

Question 23

In what year did Nazi Germany invade Poland?

A) 1937
B) 1938
C) 1939
D) 1940

Question 24

Who replaced Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of England?

A) Tony Blair
B) Clement R. Attlee
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Winston Churchill

Question 25

What was the purpose of the America First group?

A) To ensure that any treaty ending World War II favored U.S. interests
B) To keep the U.S. out of World War II
C) To ensure that wartime expenditures did not disrupt domestic programs
D) To identify Japanese-Americans for internment

Question 26

In what year did Nazi Germany invade the Soviet Union?

A) 1938
B) 1939
C) 1940
D) 1941

Question 27

On what day did the Japanese attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?

A) November 11, 1940
B) December 7, 1940
C) November 11, 1941
D) December 7, 1941

Question 28

The Hawley-Smoot bill concerned what?

A) Aid to China
B) Aid to Britain
C) Tariffs
D) U.S. neutrality

Question 29

Fulgencio Batista was an army officer who overthrew the government of what country?

A) Cuba
B) Mexico
C) The Philippines
D) Nicaragua

Question 30

Japan's foreign policy in the late 1930s resembled what U.S. policy?

A) The Platt Amendment
B) The Monroe Doctrine
C) The Roosevelt Corollary
D) All of the above

Question 31

Who developed the Reciprocity Principle?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Cordell Hull
C) Henry Morgenthau
D) Sumner Welles

Question 32

In the days following the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, what nation declared war on the United States?

A) Japan
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) All of the above

Question 33

Talk About:
-Adolf Hitler

Question 34

Talk About:
-appeasement

Question 35

Talk About:
-Atlantic Charter

Question 36

Talk About:
-Benito Mussolini

Question 37

Talk About:
-fascism

Question 38

Talk About:
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 39

Talk About:
-Fulgencio Batista

Question 40

Talk About:
-Imperial Preference System

Question 41

Talk About:
-Lend-Lease

Question 42

Talk About:
-Manchukuo

Question 43

Talk About:
-Munich

Question 44

Talk About:
-Nazi-Soviet Pact

Question 45

Talk About:
-Neutrality Acts

Question 46

Talk About:
-Neville Chamberlain

Question 47

Talk About:
-Pearl Harbor

Question 48

Talk About:
-Reciprocity Act

Question 49

Talk About:
-Spanish Civil War

Question 50

How did U.S. foreign policy in the 1930s contribute to the outbreak of World War II?

Question 51

Discuss the collapse of international agreements in the decades prior to World War II, especially in terms of how they led to war. How was the end of World War I connected to the beginning of World War II? What role did the Great Depression play in bridging the gap between the two conflicts? What specific international agreements, made subsequent to World War I, failed, and why did they fail?