1.Signs of War Across the World – Can America Stay Neutral?The worldwide economic depression of the 1930s took its toll in different ways. In Europe, political power shifted to totalitarian and imperialist governments in Germany, Italy, and Spain. In Asia, a resource-starved Japan began to expand aggressively, invading China and maneuvering to control the Pacific. The United States, on the other hand, withdrew from world affairs to concentrate on its own economic problems. Focusing on his New Deal, and with the trauma of WWI fresh in people’s minds, President Roosevelt vowed to stay out of war.During the Great Depression, Americans were in favor of isolationism, believing that problems at home could only be exacerbated(made worse) by engagement in international affairs. Thus, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's engagement in foreign affairs was limited, even as the gathering storm of Japanese and German military aggression dimmed global prospects for peace. Congress passed a series of laws called the Neutrality Acts to avoid the mistakes that plunged the nation into WWI. These Neutrality Acts kept America out of war in the following ways:Prohibited shipping weapons or loaning money to nations at warForbid American citizens from traveling on ships of nations at warHowever, as Hitler and his Nazi party rapidly gained power, conquering country after country in Europe, Roosevelt began to worry that if America didn’t act, it would remain the last nation standing. He created the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, which “loaned” money and weapons to Britain in exchange for use of military bases. Though technically not violating the Neutrality Acts, it was clear that America was no longer neutral. Roosevelt was elected to a third term, the first president in history to do so, and Hitler ordered attacks on American ships.QUESTION 15 pointsWhich of the following best summarizes the US position on WWII before the attack on Pearl Harbor?SELECT AN ANSWERThe US was completely willing to enter WWII in EuropeThe US passed the Lend-Lease Act in order to help their allies in Europe without fully getting involvedThe US did nothing to help its allies in EuropeThe US helped Hitler fight against the Allies
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1.Signs of War Across the World – Can America Stay Neutral?The worldwide economic depression of the 1930s took its toll in different ways. In Europe, political power shifted to totalitarian and imperialist governments in Germany, Italy, and Spain. In Asia, a resource-starved Japan began to expand aggressively, invading China and maneuvering to control the Pacific. The United States, on the other hand, withdrew from world affairs to concentrate on its own economic problems. Focusing on his New Deal, and with the trauma of WWI fresh in people’s minds, President Roosevelt vowed to stay out of war.During the Great Depression, Americans were in favor of isolationism, believing that problems at home could only be exacerbated(made worse) by engagement in international affairs. Thus, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's engagement in foreign affairs was limited, even as the gathering storm of Japanese and German military aggression dimmed global prospects for peace. Congress passed a series of laws called the Neutrality Acts to avoid the mistakes that plunged the nation into WWI. These Neutrality Acts kept America out of war in the following ways:Prohibited shipping weapons or loaning money to nations at warForbid American citizens from traveling on ships of nations at warHowever, as Hitler and his Nazi party rapidly gained power, conquering country after country in Europe, Roosevelt began to worry that if America didn’t act, it would remain the last nation standing. He created the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, which “loaned” money and weapons to Britain in exchange for use of military bases. Though technically not violating the Neutrality Acts, it was clear that America was no longer neutral. Roosevelt was elected to a third term, the first president in history to do so, and Hitler ordered attacks on American ships.QUESTION 15 pointsWhich of the following best summarizes the US position on WWII before the attack on Pearl Harbor?SELECT AN ANSWERThe US was completely willing to enter WWII in EuropeThe US passed the Lend-Lease Act in order to help their allies in Europe without fully getting involvedThe US did nothing to help its allies in EuropeThe US helped Hitler fight against the Allies
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The best summary of the US position on WWII before the attack on Pearl Harbor is: The US passed the Lend-Lease Act in order to help their allies in Europe without fully getting involved.
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Woodrow Wilson, Message to Congress, 1914I venture, therefore, my fellow countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that deepest, most subtle, most essential breach of neutrality which may spring out of partisanship, out of passionately taking sides. The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men's souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.Woodrow Wilson, Message to Congress, 63rd Cong., 2d Sess., Senate Doc. No. 566 (Washington, 1914), pp. 3-4.The excerpt above is BEST understood in the context of which of the following?Elimination ToolSelect one answerAFierce partisanship that developed over the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.BThe outbreak of World War I in Europe.CPolitical debates generated by Wilson’s 14 Points.DDebates over extending constitutional rights to residents of territories.
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