American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 25: THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Which of the following best characterized American foreign policy during the 1920s and 1930s?
A)strict isolationism
B)cooperative internationalism
C)limited internationalism
D)moral internationalism
E)limited isolationism
2
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 pledged the signatory nations to
A)join the League of Nations.
B)respect the Open Door policy in China.
C)collect old war debt from Germany.
D)establish a binding regional-security military alliance with one another.
E)renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
3
The Dawes Plan
A)allowed the U.S. to forgive German war debts from World War I.
B)gave Germany American loans so it could pay its war debts to France and England.
C)forced Germany to pay its reparations to the U.S. on a quicker schedule.
D)significantly improved the economic problems in Europe.
E)called for a group of nations to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
4
How did the Hoover administration respond to the Japanese conquest of Manchuria?
A)It supported the Japanese action.
B)It imposed economic sanctions on the Japanese.
C)It supported the Chinese by lending money.
D)It ordered the Pacific fleet to stand by off the China coast.
E)It refused to grant diplomatic recognition to the new Japanese territories.
5
In 1933, the United States finally recognized the government of communist Russia, in part because the
A)United States hoped for substantial trade with Russia.
B)United States felt it needed a new ally against Hitler.
C)Soviet Union completely abandoned support of the Comintern.
D)communists had established their legitimacy through free elections.
E)United States hoped Russia would provide loans to spur along the American economy.
6
Official recognition of the Soviet regime in Russia by the American government in 1933 resulted in
A)increased understanding and appreciation of the theories of communism by most Americans.
B)plans by which the Soviet Union and the United States intended to contain expansion by fascist governments.
C)significantly increased sales of American manufactured goods inside the Soviet Union.
D)relatively little change in the mutual mistrust which had characterized Soviet-American relations in the past.
E)a significant backlash against communism in America.
7
With regard to Latin America, Herbert Hoover
A)relied on "dollar diplomacy" as William H. Taft had.
B)returned to military intervention as Woodrow Wilson had.
C)renounced the Monroe Doctrine and encouraged western European intervention.
D)repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary and refused to send in U.S. troops when Caribbean nations got into debt problems and political instability.
E)was urged into isolationism by those disillusioned by the League of Nations.
8
The Good Neighbor policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt applied specifically to
A)Canada.
B)Great Britain.
C)Latin America.
D)the Philippines.
E)Japan.
9
The Nye committee reached the conclusion that an important factor leading the United States into war in 1917 was the
A)threat to the balance of power in Europe.
B)power vacuum created by the decline of Turkey.
C)threat to the security of American ships.
D)need to protect American overseas colonial possessions.
E)need to protect American bank loans to the Allies.
10
The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s were based on the assumption that the United States could stay out of war by
A)ending the Depression.
B)freeing all American colonies.
C)staying out of the League of Nations.
D)banning arms sales to countries at war.
E)refusing to loan money to belligerent nations.
11
Which of the following place names most readily brings to mind appeasement of the Nazis?
A)Dunkirk
B)Munich
C)Stockholm
D)Warsaw
E)Paris
12
Which of the following nations did NOT sign the Five-Power Pact of 1922?
A)England
B)Japan
C)Russia
D)Italy
E)France
13
Which of the following names refers to the German-occupied government of France?
A)Dunkirk
B)Vichy
C)Munich
D)Warsaw
E)Paris
14
Which of the following place names is associated with the daring British naval evacuation of troops from the continent?
A)Dunkirk
B)Vichy
C)Normandy
D)Warsaw
E)Pearl Harbor
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