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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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Identify and state the historical significance of "phony war".

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Identify and state the historical significance of Pearl Harbor.

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Assess President Roosevelt's conduct of American foreign policy from 1935 to 1941. When and why did he move from isolationism to interventionism in the European war? How did President Roosevelt use his political and diplomatic skills to guide the reluctant American public away from isolationism and toward support for interventionism? Was Roosevelt honest and far-sighted, as his supporters claimed, or cunningly deceptive, as his isolationist detractors asserted, or a little of both, as he moved to upgrade quickly American military preparedness and provide increasing military assistance and support to Great Britain in the European war? Defend your positions with specific historical examples.

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Identify and state the historical significance of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act.

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Identify and state the historical significance of the Munich Conference.

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One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was


A) the formal recognition of the Soviet Union.
B) joining the League of Nations.
C) establishing military bases in China.
D) his support of the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
E) his commitment to Philippine independence.

F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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Identify and state the historical significance of Adolf Hitler.

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Identify and state the historical significance of the Kristallnacht.

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The event that shook Americans to the core and moved them to shift politically in support of a making a substantial political and military effort against Hitler's aggression in Europe was


A) the fall of France.
B) Hitler's armies overrunning Denmark and Norway.
C) Germany's nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union.
D) the invasion of Poland.
E) the fear of a union between Japan and Germany.

F) D) and E)
G) None of the above

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Explain in what way the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s "marked in effect an abandonment of the [United States'] traditional policy of freedom of the seas." How did the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s expressly contradict President Woodrow Wilson's insistence on maintaining America's neutral shipping rights two years before American entry into World War I? What do you believe accounts for this fundamental abandonment of the American government's traditional policy of upholding "freedom of the seas" as fascism was on the rise worldwide less than 20 years after the conclusion of World War I?

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President Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because


A) he perceived this new policy as a logical extension of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt's Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
B) Congress had repealed the Monroe Doctrine.
C) he feared the spread of communism in the region.
D) the policy was part of the neutrality stance taken by the United States.
E) he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against dictators.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly


A) in order to win support from American Catholics.
B) because the Soviet leadership seemed to be modifying its harsher communist policies.
C) in hope of developing a diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany.
D) to win favor with American liberals and leftists.
E) to import grain from the Ukraine for Americans left hungry from the Great Depression.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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As part of his plan to concentrate on alleviating the Depression at home, President Roosevelt's administration


A) cooperated closely with other nations in the London Economic Conference.
B) extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union.
C) abandoned the armed interventionist policy toward Latin America articulated in the (Theodore) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
D) promised independence to the Philippines.
E) sought closer ties with Canada and Mexico.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

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


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) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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


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) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Identify and state the historical significance of Burton Wheeler.

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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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Explain in what way a) the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, b) the fall of France, c) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, and d) the attack on Pearl Harbor mark the most important turning points in American foreign policy from "storm-cellar isolationism" to full-fledged interventionism between 1935 and 1941.

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Identify and state the historical significance of the destroyers-for-bases deal.

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