Topic 7.11 quiz

Which of the following best explains United States foreign policy between the First World War and the Second World War?

• The United States enacted an imperialist policy in order to expand the territories it gained during the Spanish-American War.

• The United States followed an isolationist policy in order to avoid becoming involved in another conflict abroad.

• The United States established an expansionist policy in order to revive the concept of Manifest Destiny.

• The United States created a cooperative policy that attempted to resolve disputes through international organizations like the League of Nations

Despite its isolationist position in the 1920’s, the United States government actively intervened throughout the decade in which of the following areas of European affairs?

• International finance and reparations

• Collective security against communism

• Resistance to fascism

• Human rights

Which of the following was an effect of the instability and chaos in Germany in the years after World War I?

• Communists won control of the Reichstag.

• German politics became more liberal.

• German society became radicalized.

• The Weimar Republic became more authoritarian.

The America First Committee encouraged

• Interventionism in the war in Europe

• Interventionism in the war in Asia

• Isolationism

• Interventionism in both Europe and Asia

At first, European leaders gave into Hitler's demands using what type of policy? 

• aggression
• advancement 
• internment 
• appeasement 

Which of the following statements is the most accurate interpretation of the political cartoon?

• The Lend-Lease Act upheld the US policy of neutrality in the face of international conflicts.

• The Lend-Lease Act sent supplies to both the Axis and the Allies at equal rates to maintain neutrality.

• The Lend-Lease Act was a way for the United States to support the Allies without entering the war.

• The Lend-Lease Act prohibited the United States from sending war supplies to the Allies

“If we enter the war today in order to save the British Empire, we will be involved in war for the rest of our lives. If the English Channel is our frontier, and this is our war, then we will have to defend it for years to come, for it is not a strong defensive position under the conditions of modern air warfare. In fact, to defend the Channel, we will have frequently to be undertaking military operations on the Continent of Europe. This war is not our war. We did not start it.”

-Source: Senator Robert A. Taft, “Statement on Lend-Lease,” The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1939-1944, February 26, 1941

Which of the following best describes the key concern that the author addresses in the excerpt?

• demands for the United States to send aid to Allied countries who were fighting the Axis powers

• lack of military training for American civilians in case the United States joins the Allies

• complaints about the decision not to sell weapons to Europe and Asia during World War II

• rise of an isolationist group, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War II

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A historian would most likely use this passage to illustrate which of the following?

• The isolationist argument against U.S intervention

• The impact that war time atrocities had on public support

• the growing interventionist mentality across the US

• the response to the attack on pearl harbor

“ Until May 1940, most Americans had viewed the war in Europe as if it were a movie— a drama that, while interesting to watch, had nothing to do with their own lives . . . By the time of Pearl Harbor, attitudes toward entering the war had shifted dramatically. According to polls, a substantial majority of the U.S. population now regarding ‘defeating Nazism’ as ‘the biggest job facing their country’; a similar majority preferred U.S. entry into the war to a German victory over Britain.”

-Source: Lynne Olson, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, 2013

Which of the following most directly led to the changes described in the excerpt?

• attacks on US merchant ships through unrestricted submarine warfare

• invasions carried out by German and Japanese forces into neighboring countries

• state of the United States economy following the Great Depression

• • rise in Jewish refugees from Germany and Italy seeking asylum in the United States

Which of the following statements is the most accurate interpretation of the political cartoon?

• The Lend-Lease Act prohibited the United States from sending war supplies to the Allies.

• The Lend-Lease Act sent supplies to both the Axis and the Allies at equal rates to maintain neutrality.

• The Lend-Lease Act upheld the US policy of neutrality in the face of international conflicts.

• The Lend-Lease Act was a way for the United States to support the Allies without entering the war.