AP US History Homework: Chapter 34
Pre-War Foreign Policy
1.
What were the goals of the London Economic Conference?
2.
Why did FDR pull the U.S. out of the London Conference?
3.
Why did the U.S. decide to relinquish its Asian colony, the Philippines?
4.
Why did the U.S. choose to recognize the Soviet Union?
5.
Why and how did FDR expand the Good Neighbor Policy begun under Hoover?
6.
What was accomplished with the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act?
Growing Isolationism
7.
Why did the US Congress pass the Neutrality Acts, and how did this prove to be dangerous?
8.
Why did the US refuse to support the democratic government of Spain against Francisco
Franco?
FDR Does What He Can
9.
What was FDR’s intent in the Quarantine Speech of 1937?
10.
How did the 1939 Neutrality Act support the Allies without compromising US isolationism?
11.
What was the conscription law of 1940?
12.
How did FDR arrange to aid the Allies despite neutrality laws?
War Comes Home & the US Reacts
13.
To what extent was the Atlantic Charter similar to Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points?
14.
Why did the US avoid an embargo against Japan until late 1940?
15.
What supplies to Japan were cut off?
16.
Why did Japan refuse to make a deal?
17.
How did Pearl Harbor affect the US, militarily and otherwise?