Chapter+34+Reading+Objectives

1.Describe FDR’s early isolationist policies, and explain their political and economic effects. 2. Explain how American isolationism dominated US policy in the mid-1930s. 3. Explain how America gradually began to respond to the threat from totalitarian aggression, while still trying to stay neutral. 4.Describe Roosevelt’s increasingly bold moves toward aiding Britain in the fight against Hitler and the sharp disagreements these efforts caused at home. 5. Indicate how the US responded to Nazi anti-Semitism in the 1930s, and why it was slow to open its arms to refugees from Hitler’s Germany. 6.Discuss the events and diplomatic issues in the growing Japanese-American confrontation that led up to Pearl Harbor.
 * After reading this chapter, you should be able to:**

In the instructor's opinion, Objectives #2, 4, and 6 are the most important to know. If you understand these things, you will be fine on the exam. Do not worry about the sections of the textbook that discuss European or Asian affairs or battles as I will not be testing you on those things.

You should **__read__** the following pages: Pg. 855-856 (stop at "Storm-Cellar Isolation") Pg. 857-861 (stop at "The Fall of France") Pg. 866-872

You should **__skim__** the following pages: Pg. 853-854 Pg. 856--857 (stop at "Congress Legislates Neutrality") Pg. 861-866 (stop at "Shattering the Two-Term Tradition")

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