CHAPTER 27
WORLD WAR II
REVIEW FOR EXAM
*Study notecard terms.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe the isolationist motives and effects of FDR’s early foreign policies.
a. Post WWI trauma
b. Good Neighbor Policy
c. Reduction of tariffs (Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act)
d. Recognition of the USSR
e. London Economic Conference
f. Withdrawal of US Forces from Latin America
g. Tydings-McDuffie Act (Filipino independence)
2. Two biggest foreign policy issues of the 1920’s and early 1930’s:
A. War debt repayment
B. German reparations (Dawes Plan)
3. Causes of WWII
a. Isolationism
b. Failure of collective security (League of Nations)
c. Appeasement (Munich Pact)
d. Rise of totalitarian regimes
e. Expansionism
f. Nationalism
g. Arms reduction and Kellogg-Briand
h. Impact of U.S. Great Depression on Europe and Japan
4. Examples of American isolationism:
a. We were too preoccupied w/ our Depression to worry about Europe
b. Ludlow Amendment- Constitutional amendment to forbid a declaration of
war by Congress—except in case of invasion
c. Nye Committee
d. Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937
e. Spanish Civil War
f. Failure to protect the Open Door to China (Japanese invasion of
Manchuria in 1931 and southern China in 1937)
5. Describe FDR’s bold moves toward aiding Britain in the fight against Hitler and
the sharp disagreements these efforts caused at home.
a. Lend-Lease vs. Cash-n-Carry
b. Destroyers for bases deal
c. First peacetime draft
d. Opposition- America First Committee, “Fortress America”
e. Atlantic Charter
f. Shoot-on-sight policy
6. FDR’s Speeches – Quarantine Speech, Four Freedoms Speech, Arsenal for
Democracy Speech
7. Discuss the events and diplomatic issues in the Japanese-American conflict that
led up to Pearl Harbor.
Key questions:
1. Congress’s first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to do what?
Conscription law passed by Congress
2. America’s neutrality ended when? Fall of France & Battle of Britain
3. The U.S. saved how many Jews from Nazism? Only a small number
4. Casualty of the Non-Agression Act – Poland
5. Victim of the Munich pact- Czechoslovakia
6. FDR’s “quarantine speech” resulted in a wave of protests by isolationists
7. What did the neutrality acts forbid?
8. Why give up the Philippines? (Tydings-McDuffie)
9. Why did FDR run for re-election in 1940? America needed strong leadership