Unit 5, Chapter 33

Question 1

Good neighbor policy

Answer 1

• departure for the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine
• begun by Herbert Hoover but associated with Franklin Delano or Roosevelt

Question 2

Reciprocal trade agreements act (1934)

Answer 2

-this act reversed traditional high protective tariff policies by allowing the president to negotate lower tariffs with trade partners without Senate approval

Question 3

Rome-Berlin axis (1936)

Answer 3

-Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, and facist italy, led by Benito Mussolini, allied themselves together under nefarious treaty

Question 4

Johnson debt default (1934)

Answer 4

-steeped in ugly memories of World War I despiteful act prevented debt ridden nations from borrowing further from the US

Question 5

Neutrality acts of 1935 1936 and 1937

Answer 5

• shortsighted acts passed to prevent American participation in European war
• prevented Americans from selling munitions to foreign belligerents

Question 6

Abraham Lincoln brigade

Answer 6

• idealistic American volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, defending Spanish republican forces from the fascist General Francisco Franco’s nationalist coup

Question 7

Quarantine speech(1937)

Answer 7

• an important speech delivered by Franklin Roosevelt in which he called for positive endeavors to quarantine land hungry dictators, presumably through economic embargoes

Question 8

Appeasement (1938)

Answer 8

• policy followed by leaders of Britain and France at the 1938 conference in Munich
• purpose was to avoid war, but they allowed Germany to take the sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Question 9

Hitler-stalin act (1939)

Answer 9

• treaty signed in which Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to fight each other
• pave the way for German aggression against Poland and the western democracy

Question 10

Neutrality act of 1939

Answer 10

• stipulated that European democracies might buy American munitions, but only if they could pay in cash and transport them in their own ships
• cash and carry

Question 11

Kristallnacht

Answer 11

• German for “night of broken glass”
• refers to the murders program that destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues and sent them to thousands of concentration camps

Question 12

War refugee Board (1944-1945)

Answer 12

-US agency form to help rescued you from German occupied territories and to provide relief to inmates of Nazi concentration camps

Question 13

Lend-lease bill (1941)

Answer 13

• based on the motto “send guns not sons”
• abandoned former pretenses of neutrality by allowing Americans to sell unlimited supplies of arms to any nation defending itself against the axis powers
• Bill was praised as a device for keeping the nation out of World War II

Question 14

Atlantic charter (1941)

Answer 14

• meeting on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland in August 1941
• it’s spirit would raise awareness of the human rights of individuals after World War II

Question 15

Pearl Harbor(1941)

Answer 15

• American naval base in Hawaii were Japanese war planes destroyed numerous chips and caused 3000 casualties on December 7, 1941
• A day that will live in infamy
• this attack brought the US into war

Question 16

London economic conference (1933)

Answer 16

-66 nation economic conference organazation to stabilize international currency rates