Peace in Peril

Which statement best describes the international situation in the decades just prior to both World War I and World War II?

• The US was reluctant to become actively involved in

  European political affairs

• Great Britain and France gave in to the demands of aggressive

  nations

• Formal world peace organizations were effective in

  settling international crises

• Germany annexed neighboring territories in order to

  improve the economic status of their peoples

Evidence that the United States generally followed a policy of isolationism during the period 1919-1939 is that the United States

• condemned Fascist aggression

• rejected the policy of

  appeasement

• refused to join the League of

  Nations

• participated in disarmament

  conferences

The primary purpose of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy was to

• give the United States the

  right to intervene in Latin America

• improve relationships between

  the United States and Latin America

• decrease social and economic

  ties with Latin America

• encourage European nations to

  renew their colonial interests in Latin America

The policies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt that differed most were those concerning

• conservation of natural

  resources

• the protection of the consumer

• relations with Latin American

  nations

• the power of the Presidency

Prior to the start of World War II, Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement when they

• rejected an alliance with the

  Soviet Union

• allowed Germany to expand its

  territory

• signed the agreements at the

  Yalta Conference

• opposed United States efforts

  to rearm

Which action is an example of international appeasement?

• Congress authorizing the

  Manhattan Project

• Japan attacking Pearl Harbor

• Germany signing a nonaggression

  pact with the Soviet Union

• Great Britain and France agreeing to Hitler’s demand for part of Czechoslovakia

During the period from 1935 to 1937, Congress passed neutrality legislation mainly as a result of

• the requirements of United

  States alliances with European countries

• urging by President Franklin D.

  Roosevelt

• lobbying efforts by war hawks

• strong public opinion favoring

  isolationism

Prior to United States entry into World War II, Congress passed the Cash-and-Carry Act of 1939 and the Lend-Lease Act of 1941. These foreign policy actions showed that the United States

• gave equal support to both the Allied and Axis Power

• attempted to contain the spread of communism

• maintained a strict policy of

  isolationism

• became increasingly drawn into

  the war in Europe

The Fourteen Points and the Atlantic Charter were both

• statements of post-war goals

  for establishing world peace

• plans of victorious nations to

  divide conquered territories

• military strategies for

  defeating enemy nations

• military strategies for

  defeating enemy nations

  agreements

A major reason for United States neutrality in the 1930s was the nation's

• belief in the domino theory

• disillusionment resulting from

  World War I

• strong approval of political

  conditions in Europe

• military and naval superiority