The Net Effect of Most of Franklin Roosevelt's Foreign Policy

question 69

Multiple Choice

The net effect of most of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy moves in his first term in office suggested that

• A) the United States was developing a strong defense perimeter across the northern Atlantic Ocean.
• B) the United States was willing to accommodate Stalin's Soviet Union but not Hitler's Germany.
• C) the United States was tilting toward engagement with undeveloped nations rather than with the Western world.
• D) the United States was giving up ambitions to be a world power and concentrating on the Western hemisphere.
• E) Americans would be economically but not diplomatically engaged with the rest of the world.

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