11: interwar years, ww2, cold war Flashcards

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FDR’s presidency

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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

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Truman’s presidency

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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

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Eisenhower’s Presidency

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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

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JFK’s presidency

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1961 - 1963
- Flexible response policy
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis

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Johnson’s Presidency

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  • Continued containment
  • Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Nixon’s Presidency

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1969 - 1974
- Detente policy
- Visit to China
- SALT 1

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Neutrality Acts

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Urged US noninvolvement and boycotting of belligerent (un-democratic) nations; US citizens also couldn’t travel on boats from countries involved in WW2

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Washington Conference (1921)

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International disarmament conference

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Stimson Doctrine

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US did not recognize the legitimacy of the Japanese government in China because they invaded Manchuria by force

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Office of Price Administration

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Office created during WW2 to limit consumption through rationing and put a ceiling on how certain goods could cost

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Executive Order 8802

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FDR’s Executive Order outlawing racial discrimination in hiring practices by government agencies and corporations involved in the war industries

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Executive Order 9066

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Created Japanese internment camps

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Potsdam

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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

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NSC-68

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Government plan to allow essentially unrestricted federal spending on arms in the Cold War

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9-Power Treaty

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Re-affirmed China’s Open Door Policy

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5-Power Treaty

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Goal: safety of the Pacific / freedom of the seas

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Munich Agreement

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Chamberlain negotiates with Hitler (appeases him), who agrees to stop invading European nations; doesn’t keep his end of the promise

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Atlantic Charter

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US and Great Britain declared postwar goals, such as free trade and sovereignty (essentially established US + GB alliance)