AP US History Chapter 34
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On the even of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans

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



a) were beginning to question the increased aid given to Britain
b) still wanted to keep the U.S. out of war
c) accepted the idea that America would enter the war
d) did not oppose Japan's conquests in East Asia
e) were ready to fight Germany but not Japan




Answer: B

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

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




a) President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaya or the Philippines
b) there was no way of knowing that the Japanese had been provoked to the point of starting a war with the U.S.
c) Japanese communications were in a secret code unknown to the U.S.
d) the U.S. was, at the time, Japan's main source of oil and steel
e) it was believed that Japan had insufficient aircraft carriers to reach near Hawaii




Answer: A

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk, 




a) Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act
b) the U.S. Navy began escorting merchant vessels carrying lend-lease shipments
c) Congress allowed the arming of U.S. merchant vessels
d) Congress forbade U.S. ships to enter combat zones
e) Roosevelt told the public that war was imminent




Answer: C

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the U.S.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the U.S. 



a) promised aid to the Soviets but did not deliver
b) refused to provide any help, either military or economic
c) gave only non-military aid to Russia
d) made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets
e) sent U.S. ships to Soviet naval bases




Answer: D

The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except

The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following except 




a) a focus of intense debate between internationalists and isolationists
b) a direct challenge to the Axis dictators
c) the point when all pretense of American neutrality was abandoned
d) the catalyst that caused American factories to prepare for all-out war production
e) another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases trade




Answer: E

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

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



a) personal desire to defeat his old political rival, Wendell Willkie
b) belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis
c) mania for power
d) opposition to Willkie's pledge to restore a strict policy of American neutrality
e) belief that the two-term tradition limited democratic choice




Answer: B

The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was

The Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was 



a) Wendell L. Willkie
b) Robert A. Taft
c) Thomas E. Dewey
d) Alfred E. Landon
e) Charles A. Lindbergh




Answer: A

By 1940 American public opinion began to favor

By 1940 American public opinion began to favor 



a) the American First position
b) active participation in the war
c) permitting U.S. volunteers to fight in Britain
d) maintaining strict neutrality
e) providing Britain with "all aid short of war"



Answer: E

In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the U.S.

In return for old American destroyers, the British gave the U.S. 




a) "most favored nation" status
b) a role in developing the atomic bomb
c) eight valuable naval bases
d) access to German military codes
e) six air bases in Scotland and Iceland



Answer: C

America's neutrality effectively ended when

America's neutrality effectively ended when 



a) Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
b) Germany attacked Poland
c) the conscription laws was passed in 1940
d) France fell to Germany
e) Italy "stabbed France in the back"



Answer: D

Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to 




a) revoke all the neutrality laws
b) expand naval patrols in the Atlantic
c) enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war materials on a cash-and-carry basis
d) call for the quarantining of aggressor nations
e) pass a conscription law





Answer: E

The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that

The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that 




a) bombing would kill the Jews kept there
b) bombing would divert essential military resources
c) the military was unsure of the gas chambers' location
d) such attacks would not seriously impede the killing of Jews
e) all of the above




Answer: B

All of the following factors contributed to the weaknesses and lateness of America's efforts to aid Europe's threatened Jews except

All of the following factors contributed to the weaknesses and lateness of America's efforts to aid Europe's threatened Jews except


a) the belief that most Jews would be better off migrating to Israel
b) internal tensions between German-Jewish and eastern European Jewish communities in the U.S.
c) the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924
d) fear that a flood of Jewish refugees would add to unemployment during the Depression
e) Anti-Semitic attitudes in the State Department and Congress



Answer: A
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