APUSH Chapter 28 Part 2 Flashcards
“Good Neighbor” Policy
1933
US will abandon imperial intervention
US will provide a helping hand
Goal: ease tensions w LA , secure good relations in case of conflict
The New Commitee
1934
The report blames American arms manufacturers
Profited from WWI
Americans begin to believe that they were the cause of war
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937
Congress bans sale and transport of weapons to “belligerent nations
Goal is to keep nation out of a conflict like WWI
supported by isolationists
The Neutrality Act of 1939
After invasion of Poland, FDR calls congress into a special session
Law declares that nations can buy war materials
But the must pay cash and transport all goods themselves –> cash and carry
GB, France benefit most
American unemployment drops sharply
Growing opposition
America first committee (800,000 members)
US should use strengths to defend its own shores
Republicans claim FDR is leading to war
Lindbergh
Lend Lease Act (1941)
Limitless war materials loaned t victims of aggression
Weapons or equivalent , after returned
Send guns not sons
$50 billion in aid sent
The Atlantic Charter
August 1941
FDR and Churchill meet off coast of Newfoundland
8 pt agreement –> common goals for post war
Freedom of seas, self determination, universal human rights, universal disarmament, etc.
Growing Japanese Empire
1931 Japan Invades Manchuria
1937 Japan invades remainder of China
-raps of Nan King
1940 French Indochina (Vietnam)
US Response
1940 ends trading w Japan
Steel, iron, etc
1941 ends oil shipments
Japanese army cannot continue attacks
Negotiations Nov-Dec 1941
US offers to restore trade in exchange for removal from china
Japanese refuse
Navy Base–> Pearl Harbor –> Headquarters of Pacific Fleet
Attack comes in 2 waves, 3rd wave planned
About 1200 Americans killed
