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HISTORY 11/12: 2014-2015

CHAPTER 34 - TEST REVIEW
KEY TERMS (* indicates vocabulary terms from the chapter)
militarists*
divisions*
totalitarianism*
convoy*
quarantine*
warlords*
KEY PEOPLE
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco

Charles Lindbergh
Wendell Willkie
Winston Churchill

KEY EVENTS/DOCUMENTS/LAWS
London Economic Conference 1933
Tydings-McDuffie Act
Good Neighbor Policy
Rome-Berlin Axis
Nye Committee
Neutrality Acts (1935,1936,1937)
Cash and Carry Neutrality Act (1939)

isolationism
appeasement
holocaust
Joseph Stalin

Havana Conference
Battle of Britain
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
America First
Lend-Lease
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor (including the date of the attack)

KEY QUESTIONS
What was the immediate response of most Americans to the rise of the Fascist dictators Mussolini and Hitler?
What are two actions taken by Hitler, prior to the start of World War II, that were in direct violation of the
Treaty of Versailles? Why was Hitler able to get away with doing this?
Name the African nation invaded by Mussolini in 1935.
How did the U.S. response to the Japanese bombing of the American gunboat the Panay demonstrate the depth
of the United States commitment to isolationism?
Why did the allies agree to betray Czechoslovakia, allowing Hitler to take the Sudetenland?
With what nation did Hitler sign a non-aggression pact in August 1939?
What event is considered the trigger that officially started World War II in Europe?
After the fall of France, FDR called for the nation to do what two things, specifically?
What two military events in Europe moved the U.S. away from neutrality to actively aiding Britain and other
allies?
What problem from the Great Depression did the overseas demand for war goods ultimately solve in the United
States?
What did Britain give the U.S. in exchange for 50 WWI destroyers?
Despite his breaking the two-term tradition, voters re-elected FDR because they felt what?
How did Hitler interpret the passing of the Lend-Lease Act? What did he do in response?
What were three reasons Hitlers army was unable to defeat the U.S.S.R.?
What were two similarities between Woodrow Wilsons 14 Points and the Atlantic Charter?
Why did the United States place an embargo on Japan, triggering the attack on Pearl Harbor? And why did Japan
feel they had to attack the U.S.?
Why was the U.S. unprepared for the surprise attack