APUSH -Ch 34/35 Quiz Flashcards
What concluded world war I?
Treaty of Versailles
Describe Germans in 1930s
disillusioned and desperate
Who did Germans look to as their saviors from the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
Adolf Hitler
What was the London Economic Conference?
What did this illustrate?
U.S.’s withdrawal from the London Economic Conference
FDR’s determination not to associate his New Deal (inflationary) agenda with an international attempt to combat the effects of global depression by stabilizing the international currencies
What are the two major fascist powers?
Germany and Italy
What do Germany and Italy provide General Franco?
Why?
What war is this?
they provide economic and military aid
to defeat Spain’s Loyalists
Spanish Civil War
What is the Spanish Civil War?
a prelude to WWII
Who do Loyalists get help from?
the Soviet Union and other volunteers from many countries
Who remains neutral in the Spanish Civil War?
Western Governments
How do Britain and France forestall another bloodbath like WWI?
they adopt a policy of appeasement in dealing with German, Italian, and Japanese aggression and territorial expansion
What did Germany and the Soviet Union do?
signed a nonaggression pact
what does FDR do to assist Britain? (2)
what did he do?
- circumvents the neutrality acts
- Lend - lease act
he gave the British destroyers in return for british military bases
What brought the US into the war?
Pearl Harbor
What made FDR desperate to assist Britain?
the spread of totalitarianism and war in Europe
Good Neighbor Policy
stressed non-intervention in Latin America
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
reversed traditional high protective-tariff policies by allowing the pres. to negotiate lower tariffs with trade partners, w/o senate approval
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
idealistic American volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, defending Spanish republican forces from the fascist General Francisco Franco’s nationalist coup
Quarantine Speech
FDR’s speech where he called for “positive endeavors” to “quarantine” land-hungry dictators, presumably through economic embargos
War Refugee Board
US agency formed to help rescue Jews from German-occupied territories and to provide relief to inmates of Nazi concentration camps
Lend - Lease Act
“Send guns, not sons” abandoned former pretenses of neutrality by allowing Americans to sell unlimited supplies of arms to any nation defending itself against the Axis powers
Atlantic Charter
meeting on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland in August 1941, Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill signed this covenant outlining the future path toward disarmament, peace, and a permanent system of general security
Describe gov. propaganda during the war
exploited racial stereotypes often depicting Japanese ppl with big teeth and bad vision
who had considerable military success early in the war ?
Germany, Japan, and Italy
What does Roosevelt do to Japanese Americans that was a serious violation against American Civil Rights?
Why?
he ordered the detention of Japanese Americans
he feared that they would be disloyal
