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Franklin Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

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The immediate response of most Americans to the rise fo Fascist dictators Mussolini and Hitler was

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A deeper commitment to remain isolated from European problems

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The twin events that precipitated the reversal of American policy from neutrality to active, thought, nonbelligerent, support of the Allied cause were

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The fall of France and the battle of Britain

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The destroyers for bases deal of 1940 provided that

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The US would giver Britain 50 American destroyers in exchange for 8 British bases

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Seeking to withdraw from overseas commitments and colonial expense, the US in 1934 promised future independence to

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the Philippines

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The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 193, and 1937 provided that

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Americans could not sail on a belligerent ship, sell munitions, or make loans to a nation at war

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Lend-Lease Act clearly marked

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An end to the pretense of American neutrality between Britain and Germany

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The key issue in failed negotiations with Japan just before Pearl Harbor was

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the Japanese refusal to withdraw from China

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The provisions of the Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in 1941 included

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self-determination for oppressed peoples and a new international peacekeeping organization

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In the 1940 Presidential Campaign, the Republican nominee, Willkie, agreed with Roosevelt on the issue of

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Foreign Policy

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The effect of the strict American arms embargo on the Civil War between the loyalist Spanish government and Franco's Fascist rebels was

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To cripple the Loyalist government's ability to resist Franco

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One international action by FDR in his first term in office was

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The formal recognition of the Soviet Union

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One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when

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Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped several thousand Hungarian Jews escape the Nazis

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The net effect of most of FDR's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that

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The US was giving up ambitions to be world power and concentration on the Western Hemisphere

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By June 1940, the strong majority of American public opinion had come to favor

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providing Britain with "all aid short of war" at the rick of armed hostilities with Germany

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By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the US because FDR

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Had in 1941 imposed a freezing of assets and a termination of all shipment and other critical raw materials in an effort to persuade Japan to withdraw from China

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President FDR embarked on the Good Neighbor Policy

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He was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against European dictators

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Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term as president in 1940 mainly by his

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belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis

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Shortly after Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in August 1939

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Germany invaded Poland and started WWII

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On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a majority of Americans

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while still wanting to keep America from formally entering the war, supported providing generous military assistance to Britain prevent it from falling to Nazi Germany and embargoes on Japan

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Americans' enthusiastic isolationism in the 1930s can be best described as

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All of these answers are correct

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During the 1930s, the US admitted ______ Jewish refugees from the Nazi oppression

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A paltry sum of 150,000

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Roosevelt's recognition fo the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

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In the hope that developing a relationship might counterweight the rising power of Japan and Germany

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because

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President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be Malaysia

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President Roosevelt's foreign policy

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lowered tariffs to increase trade

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By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to

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Forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum