Foreign Policy and Rise of Dictators

What is dollar diplomacy?

• Using money to control foreign markets

• Bribing leaders of corrupt nations

Under whose presidency did this diplomacy mainly fall under?

• President William Howard Taft

• President Theodore Roosevelt

Dollar diplomacy was to further its aims where?

• Russia

• Latin America

• France

An immediate effect of the Lend-Lease program was that ?

• the US provided critical aid & supplies to Britain and the Soviet Union

• western Europe recovered from the damage caused by WWI

• the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact

• Japan declared war against the United States

Which action illustrates the policy of isolation followed by the US before it entered World War II?

• signing a collective security pact with Latin America

• placing a trade embargo on the sale of gasoline and steel to Japan

• passing Neutrality Acts, forbidding the sale of weapons to any warring nations

• President FDR's exchange of US destroyers for British navy bases

The US agredd to give Britain 50 destroyer ships in return for navy bases in British controlled areas?

• Atlantic Charter

• Destroyers for Bases Deal

• Neutrality Act of 1939

• Lend Lease Act of 1941

What is the main purpose of Roosevelt's "Quarantine Speech"?

• To declare war on aggressive nations

• To emphasize the importance of peace and avoiding war

• To announce new trade agreements

• To promote economic sanctions

The Flying Tigers were

• sent to Japan to help them rid their country of foreign influence

• sent to China to stop the Boxer Rebellion

• sent to China to protect the country from Japanese aggression

• sent to Japan after Pearl Harbor to inflict damage on their nation

Roosevelt's "Big Stick" Policy said that the US

• would be the middle-man between Latin America and Europe and use police force when necessary

• would no longer ban arms to any nation at war; to promote isolationism

• would cooperate and trade in the Western Hemisphere; less influence of the military

• would lend money and influence to governments in Latin America in exchange for control of the governments of those nations

What was the primary reason Britain and France practiced appeasement towards Hitler and Mussolini?

• To allow time for rearming their military forces

• Because they supported fascist ideologies

• Due to a mutual defense pact with Germany and Italy

• They were unaware of the fascist leaders' ambitions