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What provision of the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I caused much resentment by the German people toward the Allies for years to come?
The requirement that Germany pay reparations of $33 billion.
The requirement that Germany never again have an Army.
The requirement that Germany never again have a Navy.
The requirement that key cities within Germany be occupied by allied troops.
The requirement that Germany change its form of government.
What organization did President Wilson try to get the U.S. to join following World War I?
The League of Nations
The United Nations
NATO
The Warsaw Pact
The Organization of American States
What part of the League of Nation's charter prevented its acceptance by the U.S. Congress?
The requirement for a mutual defense treaty.
The requirement for the U.S. to pay for the majority of the League's expenses.
The fact that the League would not be based in the United States.
The fact that Germany and the other Central Powers would be allowed membership.
The fact that it gave the U.S. a secondary role in the affairs of the world.
What happened to the majority of Germany's Navy at the end of World War I?
They were scuttled by the German navy at Scapa Flow.
They were turned over the Allied Powers.
They were sunk in a final battle in the North Sea.
Germany was forced to reduce them to scrap and sell them.
Germany was allowed to keep the majority of her Fleet.
What were the five major naval powers invited to the naval disarmament talks in Washington D.C. in 1921?
The U.S., Britain, France, Italy, and Japan.
The U.S., Britain, France, Japan and Germany.
The U.S., France, Italy, China and Japan.
The U.S., Japan, Germany, Britain and France.
The U.S., Japan, Germany, Britain and France.
What did the 5:5:3 ratio in the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty refer to?
The ratio of battleship tonnage for the U.S., Britain and Japan.
The ratio of battleship tonnage for the U.S., Britain and France.
The ratio of overall naval tonnage for the U.S., Britain and Japan.
The ratio of overall naval tonnage for the U.S., Britain and France.
The ratio over cruiser tonnage for the U.S., Britain and Japan.
Why did the United States not embark on any large warship building programs throughout the 1920s?
Economic hard times combined with an isolationist world view.
The Navy could not recruit enough sailors in the 1920s.
There was not enough domestic steel produced and the U.S. Congress would not allow the import of foreign steel.
It was thought that there would not be a need for Navies in future wars.
There was a lack of qualified naval architects and shipbuilders in that decade.
What concession was given to the Japanese in the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty to offset their lower overall battleship tonnage?
A nonfortification clause.
No limit was put on their cruiser tonnage.
They were given the former German island possessions in the South Pacific.
They were allowed an unlimited number of aircraft carriers.
They were given the entire Korean Navy.
What country did the Italian Army invade and conquer in 1935?
Ethiopia
Austria
Egypt
Malta
Sicily
What new type of warfare did the U.S. Marine Corps concentrate on to support war plans in the Pacific area?
Amphibious Warfare
Armored Warfare
Close Air Support
Trench Warfare
Airborne Warfare
What did General Billy Mitchell's test sinking of a battleship by aerial bombing cause Navy leaders to do?
To convert a collier into the Navy's first aircraft carrier.
To turn over anti-ship air operations to the Army Air Crops.
Strengthen battleships so that this could not happen in the future.
The event was ignored because the battleship was not firing back and not moving.
Push for further reductions in the number of authorized battleships.
What is the popular name for Naval Construction Battalions:?
Seabees
SEALS
Frogmen
Constructees
Naval Engineers
What is the mission of the Seabees?
To create operating bases in any environment.
To clear obstacles from beaches prior to amphibious landings.
To repair naval ships at sea, far away from their support bases.
To parachute in ahead of the assault force to cut off enemy supply lines.
To capture and interrogate enemy military personnel.
Under what policy did Britain and France made a series of concessions to Hitler and Mussolini in return for "promises of peace."
Appeasement
Rapprochement
5:5:3 ratio
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Marshall Plan
What action by Hitler's Germany in 1939 began World War II in Europe?
The German invasion of Poland.
The takeover of Czechoslovakia by Germany.
The German takeover of Austria.
Germany remilitarizing of the Rhineland.
German withdrawal from the League of Nations.
What did President Franklin Roosevelt establish that had as its task the reporting and tracking of belligerent ships and aircraft approaching the United States?
The Neutrality Patrol.
The Seabees.
The Coast Watchers.
Aircraft Carrier Battlegroups.
Reconnaissance Blimps.
What Congressional Act was passed in 1941 allowing the United States to "loan" war materials to Britain?
The Lend-Lease Act
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty
Naval Transfer Act
The Roosevelt-Churchill agreement.
What was the decision reached at the ABC-1 Staff meeting in 1941 about the priority of fighting the war in the Atlantic versus the Pacific regions?
That the Atlantic fighting would have first priority.
That the Pacific fighting would have first priority.
That both areas would have equal priority.
That the Atlantic would have priority in even years and the Pacific in the odd years.
That the Atlantic would have priority in odd years and the Pacific in the even years.
What were the final U.S. economic acts that made war with Japan inevitable?
An embargo on oil export to Japan and the freezing of Japanese assets in the U.S.
High tariffs placed on imported Japanese goods.
A food embargo against Japan.
A boycott against all imported Japanese products.
The selling off of all Japanese Yen within the U.S.
What event in early November, 1941 caused Congress to remove the last feature of the U.S. neutrality policy?
The sinking of the destroyer Ruben James by a German submarine.
The Japanese attack on pearl harbor.
The German invasion of Poland.
The sinking of the Lusitania.
The declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany.
What were the limits on guns for battleships and cruisers as a result of the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty of 1921?
9 16-inch guns for battleships and 8-inch guns for cruisers.
9 16-inch guns for battleships and no limitations for cruisers.
8-inch guns for cruisers and no limitations on battleships.
There were no limitations on guns for either battleships or cruisers.
16 9-inch guns for battleships and 8 8-inch guns for cruisers.
After the signing of the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty of 1921, all world powers except one began major heavy-cruiser building programs. What country did not?
The United States
Japan
France
Britain
Italy
What country proceeded to fortify Pacific island bases in-between World Wars I and II?
Japan
The U.S.
Britain
France
Italy
In what year did the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty's ban on major warship construction end?
1936
1921
1945
1939
1933
What was the name of the U.S. Secretary of State during the Coolidge administration?
Frank Kellogg
Aristide Briand
Benito Mussolini
Josephus Daniels
Billy Mitchell
What was the flaw that doomed the Kellogg-Briand Pact to failure?
It had no provisions for enforcement and was therefore ignored.
It did not have the support of the United States
It did not have the support of France.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact did not fail and was a significant success.
President Coolidge did not support it.
Significant U.S. ship building during the period between World Wars I and II did not begin until what year?
1933
1921
1945
1939
1936
In 1924 the U.S. Congress passed an immigration bill classifying what country's nationals as "undesirables".
Japan
Germany
Italy
France
Turkey
In what year did Japan invade China from Korea?
1931
1935
1939
1921
1941
What did Germany do in 1935?
They withdrew from the League of Nations.
They invaded Poland.
They invaded China.
They declared war on Britain.
They invaded France.
Which of the following German ships was a 42,000 ton battleship under construction in 1939?
The Tirpitz
The Graf Spee
The Scheer
The Langley
Prince Eugene
Approximately how many U-Boats did the German Navy have at the start of World War II?
56
1,200
None
125
14
What was the name of the U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier?
The USS Langley
The USS Lexington
The USS Saratoga
The USS Hornet
The USS Bismarck
What naval innovation was sometimes regarded as "the secret weapon" by strategists prior to World War II that they believed would allow the Navy to win the Pacific war?
At-sea replenishment and support ships that moved with the fleet.
Nuclear weapons
Aircraft carriers
Amphibious operations
The breaking of the Japanese codes
What was the name of the U.S. gunboat bombed by the Japanese in china in 1937?
The USS Panay
The USS Langley
The USS Lexington
The USS Ruben James
The USS Tirpitz
Which of the following countries was NOT captured by Germany by June of 1940?
Switzerland
France
Holland
Luxembourg
Belgium
What was the name of the bill passed in 1940 authorizing the President to build two fleets, one for the Pacific and one for the Atlantic?
The Two-Ocean Navy Bill.
The Kellogg-Briand Bill
The Neutrality Patrol Bill
The Lend-Lease Bill
The Navy Act of 1940.
In 1940 President Roosevelt concluded a deal with Prime Minister Churchill that gave the U.S. bases in all of the following places except one. Which one did not become a U.S. base?
Iceland
Bermuda
The West Indies
Newfoundland
No such agreement ever took place.
What Act was passed by Congress in 1941 that allowed the U.S. to "loan" war materials to Britain?
The Lend-Lease Act
The Kellogg-Briand Act
The Neutrality Patrol Act
The Two-Ocean Navy Act
No such Act was passed by Congress in 1941
On what date did Italy and Germany declare war on the United States?