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College U.S. History II
Chapter 35
Essay Questions
Answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. How and why did the United States attempt to isolate itself from foreign troubles in the early and mid
1930’s?
2. How did the Fascist dictators’ continually expanding aggression gradually erode the United States’
commitment to neutrality and isolationism?
3. To what extent did American diplomacy and economic policy provoke war with Japan? What might the
United States have done to delay or even prevent war with Japan? Why wasn’t that done?
Some terms and ideas you should become familiar with.
London Economic Conference
Good Neighbor Policy
Totalitarianism
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Rome-Berlin Axis
Mussolini invades Ethiopia
Neutrality Acts (1935-39)
Francisco Franco
FDR’s “Quarantine Speech”
Hitler militarizes Germany
Appeasement
German invasion of Poland
Collapse of France
Battle of Britain
Lend-Lease Bill
Hitler invades the Soviet Union
U.S. naval escort system
U.S. economic sanctions placed on Japan
U.S. declares war on Japan
Formal recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Communism
Japanese termination of the Washington Naval Treaty
American isolationism
Spanish Civil War
America’s military unpreparedness
Panay incident
German military aggression in Europe
Hitler-Stalin Nonaggression Pact
U.S. financial supports for Finland
Conscription reinstated
FDR shatters two-term tradition
German U-boat attacks
Atlantic Charter
FDR’s shoot-on-sight policy
Bombing of Pearl Harbor