Chapter 34 #1-30

Question 1

Roosevelt first agreed to send this delegate to the London Economic Conference, he was the Secretary of State. Roosevelt did not send him the meeting because he was against the conference’s agenda.

Answer 1

#1 Cordell Hull
Pg 800

Question 2

He was a ruthless dictator of the Communist USSR.

Answer 2

#2 Joseph Stalin
Pg 803

Question 3

During 1922 this blustery, swaggering Fascist seized the reins of power in Italy.

Answer 3

#3 Benito Mussolini
Pg 803

Question 4

A fanatic with a toothbrush mustache, he plotted and harangued his way into control of Germany in 1933 with liberal use of the “big lie.”

Answer 4

#4 Adolf Hitler
Pg 803

Question 5

Spanish rebels, who rose against the left-leaning republican government in Madrid, were headed by him. He was generously aided by his fellow conspirators Hitler and Mussolini, he undertook to overthrow the established Loyalist regime, which in turn was assisted on a smaller scale by the Soviet Union. This pipeline from communist Moscow chilled the natural sympathies of many Americans, especially Roman Catholics.

Answer 5

#5 Francisco Franco
Pg 805

Question 6

He was the British prime minister who signed the appeasement of the dictators at the conference at Munich,Germany September 1938

Answer 6

#6 Neville Chamberlin
Pg 807

Question 7

The crisis in 1940 providentially brought forth an inspired leader in this Prime Minister, he was a bulldog-jawed orator who nerved his people of Britain to fight off the the fearful air bombings of their cities.

Answer 7

#7 Winston Churchill 
Pg 810

Question 8

The most effective speech maker of the America First Committee was this famed Colonel who ironically had narrowed the Atlantic in 1927.

Answer 8

#8 Charles A. Lindbergh 
Pg 813

Question 9

A German-descended son of Hoosier Indiana. This dynamic lawyer, tousled headed, long lipped, broad faced, and large framed. He was the only candidate who could possibly beat Roosevelt in the 1940 Presidential Election.

Answer 9

#9 Wendell Wilkie 
Pg 814

Question 10

This was spread in the post-1918 chaos of Europe, after the Great Depression. Absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.

Answer 10

#10 Totalitarianism 
Pg 803

Question 11

Roosevelt matched this from Europe with withdrawal from Asia. The policy or doctrine of isolating one’s country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements.

Answer 11

#11 Isolationism
Pg 801

Question 12

This of the dictators, symbolized by the ugly word Munich, turned out to be merely surrender on the installment plan. To yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.

Answer 12

#12 Appeasement
Pg 807

Question 13

This was a sixty-six-nation meeting in the summer of 1933. The delegates of this meeting hoped to organize a coordinated international attack on the global depression. They were particularly eager to stabilize the values of various nations’ currencies and the rates at which they could be exchanged. Exchange-rate stabilization was essential to the revival of world trade, which had all but evaporated by 1933

Answer 13

#13 London Economic Conference
Pg 800

Question 13

Roosevelt dedicated the U.S. relations to Latin America with this. This suggested that the U.S. was giving up it’s ambition to be a world power and would content itself instead with being merely a regional power, its interests and activities confined exclusively to the Western Hemisphere.

Answer 13

#14 Good Neighbor policy
Pg 801-802

Question 13

Congress passed this act in 1934 responding to the Hull-Roosevelt leadership of the New Dealers. Designed in part to lift American export trade from the depression doldrums, this enlightened measure was aimed at both relief and recovery. At the same time, it activated the low-tariff policies of the New Dealers.

Answer 13

#15 Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
Pg 802

Question 13

That was the party that Hitler was in charge of by making political capital of the Treaty of Versailles and Germany’s depression-spawned unemployment.

Answer 13

#16 NAZI Party
Pg 803

Question 14

In 1936 the Nazi Hitler and the Fascist Mussolini allied themselves with this.

Answer 14

#17 Roman-Berlin Axis 
Pg 804

Question 14

Jut-jawed Mussolini, seeking both glory and empire in Africa, brutally attacked Ethiopia in 1935 with bombers and tanks. The brave defenders, armed with spears and ancient firearms, were speedily crushed. Members of the League of Nations could have caused Mussolini’s war machine to creak a halt—if they had only dared to embargo oil. But when the League quailed rather than risk global hostilities, it merely signed its own death warrant.

Answer 14

#18 invasion of Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
Pg 804

Question 15

As the gloomy 1930s lengthened, an avalanche of lurid articles and books condemning the munitions manufacturers as war-fomenting of this poured from American presses.

Answer 15

#19 "merchants of death"
Pg 804

Question 16

These acts of 1935, 1936 and 1937 taken together stipulated that “when the president proclaimed” the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect. No American could legally sail on a belligerent ship, sell or transport munitions to a belligerent or make loans to a belligerent. This head-in-the-sand legislation in effect marked an abandonment of the traditional policy of freedom of the seas—a policy for which America had professedly fought two full-fledged wars and several undeclared wars.

Answer 16

#20 Neutrality Acts
Pg 805

Question 17

This war during the years of 1936-1939 was a proving ground and dress rehearsal in miniature for World War II, was a painful object lesson in the folly of neutrality-by-legislation.

Answer 17

#21 Spanish Civil War
Pg 805

Question 23

In 1937 the Japanese militarists, at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing (Peking), touched off the explosion that led to an all-out invasion of China. Roosevelt shrewdly declined to invoke the recently passed neutrality legislation by refusing to call this an officially declared war.

Answer 23

#22 China Incident 
Pg 806

Question 24

President Roosevelt delivered this sensational speech in Chicago during the autumn of 1937. Alarmed by the recent aggression of Italy and Japan, he called for “positive endeavors” to “quarantine” the aggressors, presumably by economic embargoes.

Answer 24

#23 "Quarantine Speech" 
Pg 806

Question 25

This notorious agreement meant that the Nazi German leader now had a green light to make war on Poland and the Western democracies, without fearing a stab in the back from the Soviet Union, his Communist arch-foe.

Answer 25

#24 Hitler-Stalin Non-Aggression Pact
Pg 807

Question 26

The Neutrality Act of 1939 provided that henceforth the European democracies might buy American war materials, but only on this. This meant that they would have to transport the nutritious in their own ships, after paying for them in cash.

Answer 26

``` #25 "cash and carry" Pg 810 ```

Question 27

The months following the collapse of Poland, while France and Britain marked time, were known as this. An ominous silence fell on Europe, as Hitler shifted his victories divisions from Poland for a knockout blow at France.

Answer 27

``` #26 "phony war" Pg 810 ```

Question 28

This was a propaganda group who were supportive of aid to Britain in the war.

Answer 28

``` #27 Committee to Defend American by Aiding the Allies Pg 812 ```

Question 29

The isolationists, both numerous and sincere, were by no means silent. Determined to avoid American bloodshed at all costs, they organized this.

Answer 29

``` #28 America First Committee Pg 813 ```

Question 30

Roosevelt moved boldly when in September 2, 1940, he agreed to transfer to Great Britain fifty old-model, four-funnel destroyers left over from World War I. In return, the British promised to hand over he U.S. eight valuable defensive base sites, stretching from Newfoundland to South America.

Answer 30

``` #29 destroyers-for-bases Pg 813 ```

Question 31

This was patriotically numbered 1776, was entitled "An Act Further to Promote the Defense of the United States." Sprung on the country after the election was safely over, it was praised by the administration as a device that would keep the nation out of the war rather than drag it in.

Answer 31

``` #30 Lend-Lease Bill Pg 815 ```