United States History Question of the Day


Austrian citizens salute German soldiers
during annexation, March 1938
(Source: Wikimedia Commons--public domain)

Question 1128:

Which of the following was not a factor encouraging American neutrality as the world moved towards war in the late 1930s?

    (A) memories of the brutality of World War I trench warfare
    (B) the rise of the America First Committee
    (C) the Nye Committee hearings into war profiteering during World War I
    (D) the relatively small size of the U.S. Army (17th in the world) at the outbreak of war in September 1939
    (E) concern that entering war with Germany might make conditions worse for German Jews


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