Oakdale High School

Oakdale High School Advanced Placement U. S. History Mr. Simoncini Chapter 27, Section 1 (718-728) Note: All page references are based on the 12th edition of the Brinkley text.

1. Throughout the 1920s, what did those people who controlled American foreign policy attempt to do? Did the Roosevelt Administration change that focus?

2. According to Brinkley, was the United States truly isolationist in the 1920s? Explain your response.

3. What was the primary focus of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes during the 1920s?

4. Discuss the Washington (Naval) Conference of 1921 and the Five-Power Pact of February 1922. Which country did the Five-Power Pact seem to favor in realistic terms? What other related treaties came to pass as a result of the Washington Conference.

5. Discuss and evaluate the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.

6. According to the Republican Secretaries of State, what was the first responsibility of (American) diplomacy?

7. Discuss the Dawes Plan—its background, what it was and what its results were.

8. What circumstances led to Central and South American countries casting a label of Yankee imperialism on the United States?

9. What were President Hoover’s primary foreign policy activities with regard to Central and South America and the Caribbean region?

10. Discuss Hoover’s plan to promote economic stability, particularly in Europe? In what way did Hoover reject the advice of many economists and political leaders? What were the results of his decision?

11. How did Secretary of State Henry Stimson want to react to Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931-1932? What did Hoover forbid him from doing? What were the results?

12. What was the international system that the United States under Republican administrations had attempted to create in the 1920s? What happened to that initiative? What options did the U.S. later have and which way did the U. S. proceed?

13. What was the Hoover Administration’s primary focus with regard to foreign policy?

14. How did Roosevelt’s policies differ from those of Hoover with regard to settling the war debts of European nations?

15. What was the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934 and what were its results? 16. Discuss the Good Neighbor Policy.

17. What world events led to an upswing in isolationist activism during the 1930s?

18. Discuss some of the significant isolationists and isolationist activities of the U. S. government during the 1932s, including the Neutrality Act of 1935.

19. Review the PowerPoint presentations on Mr. Simoncini’s website and be sure to read about activities in Europe in the mid-to-late 1930s that preceded World War II.

Chapter 27, Section 2 (728-736)

20. Compare or contrast the feelings of Americans to the struggle in Europe in 1939-1941 with their feelings about the war in Europe in 1914-1917.

21. What changes to the Neutrality Act did FDR request in September 1939? What changes were actually made and why?

22. What was the American reaction to Soviet actions in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania (the Baltic republics) and Finland in late 1939/early 1940?

23. With regard to England, what advice did U. S. ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy give to FDR? Did FDR follow that advice? Provide an example to justify your response.

24. After Germany’s defeat of France, what percentage of the American people believed that Germany posed a direct threat to the United States?

25. What was the Burke-Wadsworth Act?

26. Discuss the America First Committee.

27. Discuss the 1940 presidential election. What was the main premise of the Republican platform? What were the results of the election?

28. What was the Lend-Lease Program?

29. Discuss the FDR concept of “hemispheric defense.”

30. Discuss German naval actions vis-à-vis American merchant and naval vessels in the fall of 1941.

31. Discuss the circumstances surrounding the writing of and the contents of the Atlantic Charter.

32. What did FDR do when the Japanese failed to respond to FDR’s warning to not attack the Dutch East Indies? What effects did that action have on Japan?

33. How did Japanese the prime minister, Prince Konoye, attempt to resolve the crisis with the United States? How did the Roosevelt administration respond? What eventually happened to the Konoye government? 34. From “Where Historians Disagree: The Question of Pearl Harbor:” after reading that short essay, do you believe that the FDR administration knew about the Japanese plan of attack on Hawaii or not? Which historian cited do you tend to believe from the information provided by Brinkley? As an aside (briefly noted by Brinkley), from the American perspective, what was “the miracle of Pearl Harbor?”