Question 1
In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public
A. thought the United States should immediately declare war on Germany.
B. believed Japan was a greater threat to the United States than the war in Europe.
C. believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States.
D. were strongly against any involvement by the United States in the war.
E. believed it would be a waste to aid England, as that nation would soon fall to Germany.
Question 2
President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England
A. circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts.
B. None of these answers is correct.
C. both circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts and was in response to requests by the U.S. ambassador to London.
D. was in response to requests by the U.S. ambassador to London.
E. was canceled by Congress.
Question 3
The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940
A. approved the first peacetime draft in American history.
B. repealed the 1935 and 1937 Neutrality Acts.
C. approved sending U.S. weapons to England.
D. reaffirmed the desires of isolationists to stay out of the war.
E. saw the United States end all trade with any nation allied with Nazi Germany.
Question 4
By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated
A. All these answers are correct.
B. the Netherlands.
C. Norway.
D. Denmark.
E. France.
Question 5
The American ambassador to London who insisted in 1940 that the British plight was already hopeless was
A. Wendell Willkie.
B. Neville Chamberlain.
C. Gerald Nye.
D. Joseph P. Kennedy.
E. Burton Wheeler.
Question 6
The Munich agreement of 1938
A. was signed by Joseph Stalin despite misgivings about German intent.
B. ended further German aggression until World War II began.
C. was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.
D. put most of Poland under German control.
E. was the result of negotiations involving the League of Nations.