WWII 1

The secretary of state of the Harding administration was

• Charles Evans Hughes.

• Charles Dawes.

• Henry Cabot Lodge.

• Henry Stimson.

• Cordell Hull.

During the Harding administration, the United States

• eventually joined the League of Nations.

• threatened to blockade Japan if it did not stop its military aggression.

• largely retired from international diplomacy.

• significantly reduced the size of its navy.

• forgave the international debts of the former European allies.

The Washington Conference of 1921

• attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.

• saw the Harding administration refuse to participate in it.

• sought to expand the global markets of the United States.

• ended as a diplomatic failure for the United States.

• attempted to create a world court.

The Five-Power Pact of 1922 dealt with

• restructuring Germany’s war debt.

• the League of Nations.

• the civil war in Russia.

• Japanese aggression toward China.

• armament limitations.

All of the following nations were signatories to the Five-Power Pact of 1922 EXCEPT

• Britain.

• Russia.

• France.

• Italy.

• Japan.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

• was an alliance between France and the United States against Germany.

• was to be enforced with multinational trade embargoes.

• was signed with wide international acclaim.

• stated that an attack on one nation was an attack on all nations.

• was an alliance between France and the United States against Japan.

The Dawes Plan of 1924

• called for the United States to lend money to Germany to meet its reparation payments.

• was designed to help England and France make their debt payments to the United States.

• called for Britain and France to reduce the amount of German reparation payments.

• called for both the United States to lend money to Germany to meet its reparation payments, and Britain and France to reduce the amount of German reparation payments.

• All these answers are correct.

In his foreign policy for Latin America, President Herbert Hoover

• repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

• repeatedly ordered troops into various Central American nations.

• canceled Latin American war debts owed to the United States.

• closely followed the policies of the two previous administrations.

• declared America would henceforth only recognize democratically-elected regimes.

As part of his foreign policy, President Herbert Hoover moved to withdraw American troops from

• Mexico.

• Cuba.

• Venezuela.

• Colombia.

• Haiti.

In 1929, a fascist-led government was in power in

• Germany.

• Spain.

• Italy.

• Japan.

• France.