11: interwar years, ww2, cold war Flashcards
FDR’s presidency
1929 - 1944
- Good Neighbor Policy
- Quarantine speech
- Neutrality Acts
- Cash & carry policy
- Destroyers-for-bases deal
- Lend-lease act
- Atlantic Charter
- Yalta Conference
- Tehran Conference
- Selective Service Act
- Pearl Harbor
- Japanese internment
Truman’s presidency
1945 - 1953
- Containment policy
- A-Bomb ending the war
- Potsdam conference
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Berlin Airlift
- Entry to NATO
- Refused to accept PRC
- Korean War (fired MacArthur)
- NSC-68 approved
Eisenhower’s Presidency
1953 - 1961
- Massive retaliation policy
- Brinkmanship
- Spirit of Geneva
- Hungarian Revolt
- Cuban Revolution
- U-2 incident
- Sputnik shock
- NASA established + increase in STEM funding
- Military-industrial complex
JFK’s presidency
1961 - 1963
- Flexible response policy
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
Johnson’s Presidency
- Continued containment
- Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nixon’s Presidency
1969 - 1974
- Detente policy
- Visit to China
- SALT 1
Neutrality Acts
Urged US noninvolvement and boycotting of belligerent (un-democratic) nations; US citizens also couldn’t travel on boats from countries involved in WW2
Washington Conference (1921)
International disarmament conference
Stimson Doctrine
US did not recognize the legitimacy of the Japanese government in China because they invaded Manchuria by force
Office of Price Administration
Office created during WW2 to limit consumption through rationing and put a ceiling on how certain goods could cost
Executive Order 8802
FDR’s Executive Order outlawing racial discrimination in hiring practices by government agencies and corporations involved in the war industries
Executive Order 9066
Created Japanese internment camps
Potsdam
Conference between US (Truman), Great Britain, and USSR (Stalin), that demanded:
- Unconditional surrender from Japan
- The partition of both Germany and Berlin
- Free elections in Poland
Basically solidified what was established at Yalta
NSC-68
Government plan to allow essentially unrestricted federal spending on arms in the Cold War
9-Power Treaty
Re-affirmed China’s Open Door Policy