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

Chapter 25: THE GLOBAL CRISIS

True or False Quiz

1
Rather than being a pure isolationist, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge wanted the United States to exert its influence internationally but in a way that reflected U.S. interests and virtues and avoided obligations to other nations.
A)True
B)False
2
Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes was the key figure in resisting efforts to significantly reduce the size of the American naval establishment after World War I.
A)True
B)False
3
The Dawes Plan of international finance granted France and Britain a moratorium on payment of war debts to the United States as long as Germany remained unable to make timely war reparations payments to them.
A)True
B)False
4
Herbert Hoover tried to improve U.S. relations with Latin America by declining to intervene militarily in the affairs of the neighboring nations.
A)True
B)False
5
When Japan invaded northern Manchuria and territories even deeper into China in 1931-1932, President Hoover cooperated with the League of Nations in imposing economic sanctions against Japanese aggression.
A)True
B)False
6
President Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy renounced the approach of nonintervention that President Hoover had begun.
A)True
B)False
7
A major reason that the United States decided in 1933 to extend diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union was that many Americans regarded Russia as a fertile source for trade expansion.
A)True
B)False
8
One point feeding isolationist sentiment in the 1930s was the Nye Committee charge that war profiteers in banking and industry had pressured the United States to enter World War I.
A)True
B)False
9
In the Spanish Civil War, Hitler and Mussolini supported Francisco Franco while the governments of France, Great Britain, and the United States provided military assistance to the republican cause.
A)True
B)False
10
The Panay incident brought the United States and Japan close to war in 1937 when an American battleship accidentally sank a Japanese patrol boat.
A)True
B)False
11
In the Munich Accords of 1938, the French and British agreed to accept the German demands in Czechoslovakia in return for Hitler's promise to expand no further.
A)True
B)False
12
The generally acknowledged "beginning of World War II" came with the German blitzkrieg against France and the Low Countries in June 1940.
A)True
B)False
13
Agricultural Secretary Henry A. Wallace, President Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1940, was unpopular with many Democrats because he was perceived as too liberal and too controversial.
A)True
B)False
14
In the 1940 election, Republican nominee Wendell Willkie took a strong stance against President Roosevelt's policy of assisting France and Great Britain without actually entering the war.
A)True
B)False
15
The U.S. Congress declared war on Germany and Italy before those nations could declare war on the United States.
A)True
B)False
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