US History B Final Exam

What was one factor that led to the Great Depression?

• government limitations on the amount of money in circulation

• high wages paid by employers

• increases in the tax rate for corporations

• excessive speculation in the stock market

What were the three main goals for the New Deal?

• Relief, recovery, and reforms

• Reaction, response, and resignation

• Revolt, relief, and renewal

• Review, relocation, and revolution

What was one effect of the New Deal?

• The New Deal celebrated a more passive role for government

• The New Deal offered a more active and constructive role for government

• The New Deal ultimately promoted complete dependence on the government

• The New Deal abolished the traditional checks and balances within the American government

How did President Roosevelt’s philosophy differ from Herbert Hoover’s?

• Roosevelt believed that in times of crisis, it was acceptable for the government to aid people directly

• Roosevelt played on the public’s fears

• Roosevelt thought too much communication from the president would hamper recovery

• Roosevelt believed in “rugged individualism”

Which of the following may have encouraged Hitler to begin taking control of neighboring countries?

• The League of Nations’ unwillingness to take action against territorial expansion by Japan or Italy

• The Soviet support of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War

• The massacre in Nanjing

• Japan’s successful attack on the United States

Why was the United states unwilling to let Japan expand into Southeast Asia?

• Democracies flourished there

• The area contained valuable natural resources

• Japan was considered too popular in that part of the world

• Japan was a racist nation

Why were many Americans committed to isolationism in the 1930s?

• the Great Depression left no money to spend on the military

• Franklin D. Roosevelt was an isolationist.

• Most Americans were pacifists

• The destruction of World War I had seemed pointless to them

While the United States declared neutrality prior to entry in World War Two, how did they aid the allies, especially the British?

• Sold goods and military supplies to any nation that could pick them up in American ports

• Sent weapons and other military supplies to nations in Europe

• Neither of the above, the United States remained neutral and refused to aid any nation

• Both A and B

Which of the following policies did isolationists favor?

• Appeasement

• Combat roles for women

• Isolating Japan in Manchuria

• Isolating Hitler in the Sudetenland

Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. What steps were taken by the US next?

• Germany and Italy declared war on the United States

• The Atlantic Charter was signed

• Roosevelt asked Congress for a Declaration of War

• The Army created the WAC