Question 1

Compare and contrast the views of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies with those of the America First Committee. Had you lived in America just after the fall of France in June 1940, which view would you have supported? Why? Support your choice with specific historical examples that bolster the contemporaneous view of either advocacy organization.

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Question 2

In response to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist attacks, President Eisenhower

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A)   publicly denounced him only after he attacked General George Marshall.
B)   quietly encouraged him to continue his attacks on Democrats.
C)   publicly opposed his ruthless tactics but privately enjoyed his personal charm.
D)   declined to confront the senator's irresponsible accusations of communism against upstanding and loyal government officials, effectively allowing him to control personnel policy at the State Department.
E)   privately supported him but publicly kept his distance.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 3

In the 1940 presidential election campaign, both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, agreed that the

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A)   United States should supply military aid to Britain and the Allies.
B)   United States should actively find a way to enter the war.
C)   United States should strengthen its defenses.
D)   New Deal should be abandoned.
E)   U.S. military should directly aid China.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​the St. Louis

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Question 5

Those opposed to the Lend-Lease program, such as members of America First Committee,were primarily motivated by a fear that

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A)   the countries borrowing funds of America to purchase arms and material would default on their debt.
B)   America's strict neutrality in the European war had been breached.
C)   Lend-Lease would eventually draw the nation into the war itself.
D)   the program would become rife with corruption and cronyism.
E)   None of these choices are correct.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

The era of informal polling techniques came to an end and was replaced by more scientifically based systems

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A)   that relied on the records of automobile registrations and telephone directories to determine the proper demographic samples of Americans who polled about their views on political affairs.
B)   after a popular news magazine in 1936 mistakenly predicted Alf Landon the winner in the presidential election over FDR.
C)   when television began to play an increasingly important role in forecasting elections.
D)   when advertisers decided that polling was useless for the purposes of marketing.
E)   after a popular new magazine in 1940 mistakenly predicted that Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie over FDR.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 7

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)  Munich Conference, (B)  German invasion of Poland, and (C)  Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty.

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A)   A, C, B
B)   B, C, A
C)   C, B, A
D)   C, A, B
E)   A, B, CF) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

In September 1938, at the Munich Conference,

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A)   Britain and France consented to Germany forcibly acquiring the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in exchange for a promise by Hitler to renounce any further German territorial claims on Europe.
B)   Hitler declared his intention to take Austria.
C)   Hitler signed the Axis Alliance Treaty with Japan.
D)   Britain and France acquiesced to the German reoccupation of the Rhineland.
E)   the leaders of Britain and France were determined not to cede additional European lands to Hitler.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Josef Goebbels

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Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Wendell Willkie

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Question 11

Do you think the argument that "one should not change horses in the middle of a stream" is sufficient to justify Franklin Roosevelt's breaking the two-term tradition in 1940? Do you think anyone should be allowed to serve more than two terms in the presidency? Why or why not? Why do you believe Congress passed and the states ratified the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution in 1951 limiting a president to being elected to two terms in office?

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Question 12

Americans' fervent isolationism in the 1930s can best be attributed to ​

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A)   their regrets about participating in WWI.
B)   bitter memories of the ungrateful nations that defaulted on their WWI debts.
C)   the totalizing impact of the Great Depression and the need to focus on getting out of it.
D)   the failure of most Americans to appreciate the gravity of the prospective threat to American national security posed by the militaristic, expansionist forces being harnessed during the 1930s by the Fascist dictators of Germany, Japan, and Italy.
E)   All of these choices are correct.F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 13

In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the United States

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A)   "most favored nation" trade status.
B)   a role in developing the atomic bomb.
C)   eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere.
D)   $10 million dollars.
E)   six air bases in Scotland and Iceland.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 14

Among the principles of the Atlantic Charter signed by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill were

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A)   national self-determination.
B)   disarmament.
C)   neutrality.
D)   collective security (a new League of Nations) .
E)   the creation of a new international organization.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 15

By mid-1941, Japan believed that it had no alternative to war with the United States because President Franklin Roosevelt

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A)   was committed to Britain and Holland retaining their colonial assets and economic power in the Dutch East Indies.
B)   had in 1941 imposed a freezing of assets and a cessation of all shipments and other critical raw materials in an effort to persuade Japan to withdraw from China.
C)   demanded Japan renew its trade with America.
D)   break its treaty of nonaggression with Germany.
E)   None of these choices are correct.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"cash-and-carry basis"

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Question 17

Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
Europe at the Onset of World War II, c. 1939
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-____ The nation that was sacrificed at the Munich Conference by the Allied nations to achieve "peace in our time."

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Question 18

America's neutrality policy during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 contributed to

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A)   Hitler conquering Spain and establishing Nazi occupation of Spain during World War II.
B)   the Loyalists from winning the war.
C)   Roosevelt and Francisco Franco becoming personal friends and strategic allies.
D)   the Soviets successfully defending the Spanish Republic from Spanish Fascist forces.
E)   Spain becoming a Fascist dictatorship after Franco's victory.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Atlantic Charter

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Question 20

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