Topic 6 AP Exam Practice

Multiple-Choice Questions

Questions 1 to 3 refer to the passage below.

“Perception of danger, danger to our institutions, may come slowly or it may come with a rush and a shock as it has to the people of the United States in the past few months. This perception of danger, danger in a world-wide area—it has come to us clearly and overwhelmingly—we perceive the peril in a world- wide arena, an arena that may become so narrowed that only the Americas will retain the ancient faiths. Some indeed still hold to the now somewhat obvious delusion that we of the United States can safely permit the United States to become a lone island, a lone island in a world dominated by the philosophy of force.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, address delivered at

Charlottesville, Virginia, June 10, 1940

1. What position is best supported by Roosevelt’s words in this passage?

(A) The United States should follow a strategy of appeasement toward Hitler.
(B) The United States should avoid war with Hitler at all costs.
(C) The United States should join the fight against Hitler.
(D) The United States alone could stop Hitler.

2. Based on the passage, Roosevelt would have most strongly supported

(A) The Monroe Doctrine
(B) The League of Nations
(C) The mandate system
(D) The Munich Agreement

3. Which statement accurately provides the context needed to understand the passage?

(A) Hitler’s forces were overrunning Europe, and Britain asked the United States for help in spite of the strength of U.S. isolationism.
(B) Hitler’s forces were overrunning the Soviet Union, which asked the U.S. for help in spite of U.S. anticommunist sentiments.
(C) Japan’s forces were taking over communist China, which asked the U.S. for help in spite of U.S. anticommunist sentiments.
(D) Japan had attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, yet many in the United States still supported isolationism.

Short-Answer Questions

1. Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.

Reich Citizenship Law of September 1935

“Article 1

1. A subject of the state is a person who enjoys the protection of the German Reich and who in consequence has specific obligations toward it. . . .

Article 2

1. A Reich citizen is a subject of the state who is of German or related blood, and proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve the German people and Reich. . . .

3. The Reich citizen is the sole bearer of full political rights in accordance with the law.”

Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor of September 1935

“Moved by the understanding that purity of German blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people, and inspired by the inflexible determination to ensure the existence of the German nation for all time, the Reichstag has unanimously adopted the following law, which is promulgated herewith:

Article 1

1. Marriages between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law. . . .

Article 4

1. Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich or national flag or display Reich colors.

2. They are, on the other hand, permitted to display the Jewish colors. The exercise of this right is protected by the state.”

Nuremberg, September 15, 1935 At the Reich Party Congress of Freedom

(A)(A) Describe ONE way that German society changed after 1900.

(B)(B) Explain ONE way in which these documents demonstrated Adolf Hitler’s view of Jews.

(C)(C) Explain ONE way in which the German state’s political and social actions reflected Germany’s aggressive militarism after 1900.

2. Answer all parts of the question that follows.

(A)(A) Explain ONE way in which state policies contributed to World War II.

(B)(B) Explain ONE way in which alliances contributed to World War II.

(C)(C) Explain ONE way that imperial aspirations contributed to World War II.

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