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FDR=s Foreign Policies: Chapter 34

1) What was President Roosevelt=s early plan to ease the Depression in the US? Did this, and pulling out of the London Conference, reflect nationalism and isolationism, or was this a result of American lack of faith that Europe could help us?

2) Why did the President extend diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. (Hint: there is another reason beyond the one given in the text.)

3) Describe the AGood Neighbor@ policy.

4) Explain how Reciprocal Trade Agreements worked, and how they both improved relations with Latin America and helped ease the Depression at home.

5) What did the Johnson Debt Default Act do, and what was it trying to achieve?

6) Explain why the text believes that the Neutrality Acts were both Ahead in the sand politics@ and of dubious morality?

7) Do you agree or disagree with the text=s interpretation in question #6? Why or why not?

8) Look up the Neutrality Acts. What were the restrictions placed on trade by these laws?

9) On page 806 President Roosevelt=s decision to not invoke the definition of a Aforeign war@ to describe the Japanese invasion of China is call Ashrewd.@ What did this choice of action allow the President to do? Was this, in fact, shrewd? Explain.

10) What was the reaction to the President=s Quarantine Speech? Why?

11) Why didn=t the British and French sign any sort of treaty or pact with the Soviet Union in the months leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe?

12) How did the fall of France finally alert Americans to the potential that Hitler could damage the United States if he won?

13) What were the arguments of the America First Committee, headed by Charles A. Lindbergh?

14) Why did Franklin Roosevelt break the two-term tradition and run for a third term?

15) What were the arguments used to pass the Lend-Lease law?

16) What did the new law accomplish?

17) What were the provisions of the Atlantic Charter?

18) What actions did the United States take in 1940 and 1941 with regard to Japan that were designed to slow or stop Japanese aggression in China?

19) Do you agree with the text=s paraphrase of Lincoln on page 845 - that the world could not long remain half-enchained and half free? Why or why not?