Question 1

The United States led the call for disarmament after World War I. Many Americans believed that reduced military strength would help ___ another war.

Accepted Answer

prevent

Question 2

The United States led diplomatic talks on disarmament. Many Americans believed that arms buildup was a cause of World War I. Also, the United States wanted to limit ____'s military growth, which it saw as a threat to U.S. interests in Asia.

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 3

The Five-Power treaty limited the tonnage of ____carriers and capital ships and arranged for the United States, Great Britain, and France to scrap a number of ships.

Accepted Answer

aircraft

Question 4

This was the Five-Power Treaty between the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, and France. It was part of the ____ which were a series of meetings to consider limitation of naval armaments, and settlement of the rules of naval war.

Accepted Answer

Washington Armaments Conference

Question 5

The Washington Armaments Conference was a series of international meetings to consider limitations of naval armaments and settlement of the rules of naval war. It resulted in the  ___Treaty and the Nine-Power Treaty.

Accepted Answer

Five-Power

Question 6

The Washington Armaments Conference was called by President ___ . The Five-Power Treaty placed limits on capital ships. The Nine-Power Treaty reaffirmed support for the Open Door Policy in Asia.

Accepted Answer

Harding

Question 7

After WWI, Germany owed reparations to countries in Europe, and many of the Allies owed money to the US. These countries had difficulty paying these debts, so President Coolidge appointed a committee which formed the  ___ to help Germany pay its debt.

Accepted Answer

Dawes Plan

Question 8

The Dawes Plan of 1924 eased Germany's payment ___, and the U.S. loaned Germany money to help it pay its debts to the European countries, which in turn allowed the Europeans to pay their debts to the U.S..

Accepted Answer

schedule

Question 9

Ex:  The Young Plan was passed in 1929,  ___ years after the Dawes Plan, when it became apparent that Germany could not meet the huge annual payments.

Accepted Answer

five

Question 10

The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact was signed in 1928. It ___ war as an instrument of foreign policy.

Accepted Answer

outlawed

Question 11

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the United States issued a declaration known as the Stimson Doctrine. It stated that the United States would not recognize a situation or territorial change brought about by ___.

Accepted Answer

aggression

Question 12

The Stimson Doctrine, issued by Secretary of State Henry Stimson in 1932, set a policy of  ___ towards situations which were brought about by means contrary to the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which outlawed war as an instrument of foreign policy.

Accepted Answer

non-recognition

Question 13

In the Clark Memorandum of 1928, under President Hoover, the State Department repudiated the ____ corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt

Question 14

The Clark Memorandum reflected a change in foreign policy towards the Western Hemisphere. Under President Hoover, the U.S. maintained that the Monroe Doctrine did not justify American  ___ in the Western Hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

intervention

Question 15

Franklin Roosevelt changed American foreign policy towards the Western Hemisphere in what he called the ___ policy.

Accepted Answer

Good Neighbor

Question 16

The Good Neighbor policy sought to improve relations with ___ , and formally abandoned military intervention in the Western Hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

Latin America

Question 17

In line with FDR's Good Neighbor policy, the United States accepted a nonintervention provision at the ___ Conference, abolished the Platt Amendment, which had restricted the Cuban government's powers, and American troops withdrew from Haiti.

Accepted Answer

Pan-American

Question 18

In his first inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt announced his Good Neighbor policy in an effort to improve relations with Latin America. These events were concrete signs of this change in  ___ policy.

Accepted Answer

foreign

Question 19

The United States refused to recognize the Soviet Union when it was formed because the Soviet government would not agree to assume Russia's ___.

Accepted Answer

debts

Question 20

The Soviet government would not assume Russia's debts. Another reason the U.S. refused to recognize the Soviet Union was because they spread ___  in the United States promoting revolution.

Accepted Answer

propaganda

Question 21

The United States finally recognized the ___ as a country in 1933 under FDR's administration.

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 22

The Soviet Union was formed in 1918. It wasn't until ____that the U.S. formally recognized the Soviet Union as a country.

Accepted Answer

1933

Question 23

FDR's justification for recognizing the USSR was to establish ___, and because he believed the Soviets could end up being an ally against Japanese expansion.

Accepted Answer

trade

Question 24

In an attempt to keep the United States out of future wars, Congress passed a series of laws. The Neutrality Acts prohibited sales of  ___ or making loans or extending credits to warring countries.

Accepted Answer

arms and munitions

Question 25

The Neutrality Act of 1937 prohibited loaning money to countries at war. This was because a Senate committee had decided that arms dealers and bankers had ___ in getting America involved in World War I.

Accepted Answer

played a role

Question 26

In 1939  , under the cash-and-carry Congress __the Neutrality Act to allow countries at war to buy arms from the US. However, the goods had to be paid for in cash immediately, and those countries' ships, not Am. ships, must be used to pick up goods.

Accepted Answer

revised

Question 27

The  ___ was known as the Neutrality Act of 1939  .

Accepted Answer

cash-and-carry policy

Question 28

Collective security is the belief that unity between countries and joint action will provide  ___ against aggressive nations.

Accepted Answer

protection

Question 29

The series of events leading up to World War II began in 1936, when Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles by reoccupying the ___.

Accepted Answer

Rhineland

Question 30

The Anti-Comintern Pact united Germany, Italy, and Japan against the __ .

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 31

Germany did not stop its expansion with the reoccupation of the Rhineland. In 1938, Germany annexed ___ .

Accepted Answer

Austria

Question 32

Germany annexed Austria in 1938. Hitler then made threats to move into  by force, but at the Munich Conference, Great Britain and France agreed to give Germany the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia in return for peace.

Accepted Answer

Czechoslovakia

Question 33

The ___Conference was between Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. Czechoslovakia was not invited, but went along with the results of the conference.

Accepted Answer

Munich

Question 34

The ___ Nonagression Pact was signed in 1939  . In it, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to attack each other.

Accepted Answer

Nazi-Soviet

Question 35

The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was signed in August 1939  . Hitler wanted this Pact so that he could attack ___ without worrying about retaliation from the Soviet Union. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland, and World War II began.

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 36

World War II began when Germany invaded Poland on  ____ , and its allies declared war on Germany.

Accepted Answer

9/1/1939

Question 37

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939  . On September 3, Great Britain and ___ declared War on Germany.

Accepted Answer

France

Question 38

Once World War II began, the period from October 1939   - April 1940 was known as the __.

Accepted Answer

Phony War

Question 39

It was known as the Phony War, because after the invasion of Poland in September 1939  , there was a ___lull in fighting as Germany did not mount any major offenses.

Accepted Answer

seven month

Question 40

Within three months of the Phony War, Germany defeated Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.  ___ alone opposed Germany at that point.

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 41

Great Britain stood alone by July, 1940. At that point, the ___ began to prepare for war.

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 42

The US entered into a deal with Great Britain known as the destroyer-naval-base deal, in which the U.S. gave Great Britain 50 "over age" ___ in return for military bases in British territory in the Western Hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

destroyer ships

Question 43

This is known as the destroyer-naval-base deal, and was an end to any pretense of American __.

Accepted Answer

neutrality

Question 44

The Selective Training and Service Act provided for the first peacetime  __ in 1940.

Accepted Answer

draft

Question 45

The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 registered men between 21 and 35. The goal was to train over 1.2 million troops within a ___.

Accepted Answer

year

Question 46

The Lend-Lease Act empowered the president to "lend, lease, or exchange" war materials to any country whose struggle against aggression was considered vital to American ___ .

Accepted Answer

security

Question 47

The Lend-Lease Act went along the lines of what Roosevelt called the United States' role as the " __ of democracy." The idea was to stay out of the war, but give the British what they needed to withstand the Nazi onslaught.

Accepted Answer

arsenal

Question 48

The aid from the Lend-Lease Act primarily went to Great Britain, but was later extended to the __ when it was invaded by the Germans in June 1941.

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 49

In August 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister  ___ enunciated a joint program of peace aims known as the Atlantic Charter.

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 50

The  supported principles such as freedom from fear and want, freedom of the seas, access to raw materials for all nations of the world and easing of trade restrictions, and abandonment of the use of force.

Accepted Answer

Atlantic Charter

Question 51

By the fall of 1941, the United States was in a state of undeclared naval war with Germany. The Reuben James was the first __ sunk by hostile action during World War II.

Accepted Answer

U.S. Navy ship

Question 52

The  ___was a destroyer escorting a convoy shipping war material to Great Britain. After it was torpedoed by a German submarine, the Neutrality Acts were no longer a factor; any further incident would have led to a declaration of war on Germany by the US.

Accepted Answer

Reuben James

Question 53

In September 1940 Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, making it part of the ___ with Germany and Italy.

Accepted Answer

Axis

Question 54

The United States declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, after   ___ was attacked by Japanese planes.

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor

Question 55

Pearl Harbor was bombed on ___ . Japanese forces also struck the Philippines, Guam, and Midway Island on the same day in a coordinated attack.

Accepted Answer

12/7/1941

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