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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

America's Rise to Globalism (1927-1945)

Multiple Choice


1	The Good Neighbor policy pursued by Roosevelt's administration:
		A)	improved U.S. relations with Latin-American countries.
		B)	authorized U.S. military intervention in Latin America.
		C)	ended all U.S. economic influence over Latin America.
		D)	was unsuccessful in improving U.S. relations with Latin America.


2	In the mid-1930s, the U.S. Senate's Nye Committee held hearings:
		A)	and concluded that the U.S. should finally join the League of Nations.
		B)	to investigate Japanese atrocities in Manchuria.
		C)	to determine whether bankers and munitions makers had pushed the U.S. into World War I.
		D)	into the Roosevelt Administration's lack of military preparedness.


3	The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937:
		A)	were passed over President Roosevelt's vetoes.
		B)	dealt strictly with the Spanish Civil War.
		C)	allowed belligerent countries to purchase weapons and borrow money.
		D)	reflected the desire to avoid being pulled into a war.


4	At the Munich Conference in 1938, the leaders of France and Britain gave Hitler the green light to:
		A)	annex Austria into the Third Reich.
		B)	annex part of Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich.
		C)	invade Poland.
		D)	invade the Soviet Union.


5	Declaring that the U.S. would be the "arsenal of democracy," Roosevelt asked Congress in early 1941 to:
		A)	declare war on Nazi Germany.
		B)	allow the British to purchase all the weapons and supplies possible.
		C)	provide the British with all the weapons and supplies possible in a system known as "lend-lease."
		D)	institute the first peacetime draft in the country's history.


6	British and American forces launched Operation Torch late in 1942 to attack the Nazis in:
		A)	France.
		B)	Czechoslovakia and Austria.
		C)	Norway and Denmark.
		D)	North Africa.


7	The Battle of Midway:
		A)	was a Japanese victory that allowed them to attack Pearl Harbor.
		B)	was the last major Japanese victory.
		C)	was a key U.S. victory over the Japanese.
		D)	forced General Douglas MacArthur to evacuate the Philippines.


8	WACs and WAVEs were:
		A)	women who flew combat missions in World War II.
		B)	women who served in the U.S. Army and Navy.
		C)	women who worked in defense industries during World War II.
		D)	nicknames given to new troops in the Army and Navy.


9	The economic mobilization of the U.S. during World War II:
		A)	helped middle-class whites, but did little for the working class or members of minority groups.
		B)	had its greatest impact on the East Coast.
		C)	had no impact on the automobile industry.
		D)	helped increase the dominance of large corporations.


10	In Korematsu v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
		A)	the use of the atomic bomb against Japan was justified.
		B)	the U.S. had to provide financial compensation to Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps.
		C)	wartime necessity legitimized the relocation of Japanese-Americans.
		D)	the U.S. had violated the rights of Japanese-Americans by sending them to internment camps.


11	In Franklin Roosevelt's final election victory in 1944, his running mate for vice president was:
		A)	Harry S Truman.
		B)	Henry Wallace.
		C)	Douglas MacArthur.
		D)	Dwight D. Eisenhower.


12	The toughest issue facing the Big Three at the 1945 Yalta Conference was:
		A)	when British and U.S. forces would open up a "second front."
		B)	whether to use the atomic bomb.
		C)	whether the Soviets would permit free elections in Poland.
		D)	how the United Nations would operate after the war.

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