apush chapter 32 Flashcards

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A sixty-six-nation economic conference was organized to stabilize international currency rates. Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to revoke American participation contributed to a deepening world economic crisis.

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London Economic Conference

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A departure from the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, the Good Neighbor Policy stressed nonintervention in Latin America. It was begun by Herbert Hoover but associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Good Neighbor Policy

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This act reversed traditional high-protective-tariff policies by allowing the president to negotiate lower tariffs with trade partners, without Senate approval. Its chief architect was Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who believed that tariff barriers choked off foreign trade.

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Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

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Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, and Fascist Italy, led by Benito Mussolini, allied themselves together under this nefarious treaty. The pact was signed after both countries had intervened on behalf of the fascist leader Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War

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Rome-Berlin Axis

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Steeped in ugly memories of World War I, this spiteful act prevented debt-ridden nations from borrowing further from the United States.

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Johnson Debt Default Ac

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Short-sighted acts passed to prevent American participation in a European war. Among other restrictions, they prevented Americans from selling munitions to foreign belligerents.

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Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937

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Idealistic American volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, defending Spanish republican forces from the fascist General Francisco Franco’s nationalist coup. Some three thousand Americans served alongside volunteers from other countries.

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Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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An important speech delivered by Franklin Roosevelt in which he called for “positive endeavors” to “quarantine” land-hungry dictators, presumably through economic embargoes. The speech flew in the face of isolationist politicians.

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Quarantine Speech

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The policy followed by leaders of Britain and France at the 1938 conference in Munich. Their purpose was to avoid war, but they allowed Germany to take the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.

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Appeasement

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Treaty signed on August 23, 1939, in which Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to fight each other. The fateful agreement paved the way for German aggression against Poland and the Western democracies.

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Hitler-Stalin Pact

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This act stipulated that European democracies might buy American munitions, but only if they could pay in cash and transport them in their own ships, a policy known as “cash-and-carry.” It represented an effort to avoid war debts and protect American arms-carriers from torpedo attacks.

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Neutrality Act of 1939

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German for “night of broken glass,” it refers to the murderous pogrom that destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues and sent thousands to concentration camps on the night of November 9, 1938. Thousands more attempted to find refuge in the United States but were ultimately turned away due to restrictive immigration laws.

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Kristillnacht

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A U.S. agency formed to help rescue Jews from German-occupied territories and to provide relief to inmates of Nazi concentration camps. The agency performed noble work, but it did not begin operations until very late in the war, after millions had already been murdered.

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War Refugee Board

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An isolationist advocacy group formed in September 1940 that opposed American intervention in the Second World War. Though it boasted 800,000 members at its peak, support for the committee dissipated following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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America First Committee

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Based on the motto “Send guns, not sons,” this law abandoned former pretenses of neutrality by allowing Americans to sell unlimited supplies of arms to any nation defending itself against the Axis powers. Patriotically numbered 1776, the bill was praised as a device for keeping the nation out of World War II.

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Lend-Lease Bill

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Meeting on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland in August 1941, Franklin Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill signed this covenant outlining the future path toward disarmament, peace, and a permanent system of general security. Its spirit would animate the founding of the United Nations and raise awareness of the human rights of individuals after World War II.

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Atlantic Charter

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An American naval base in Hawaii where Japanese warplanes destroyed numerous ships and caused three thousand casualties on December 7, 1941—a day that, in President Roosevelt’s words, was to “live in infamy.” The attack brought the United States into World War II.

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Pearl Harbor

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(1883-1945) Fascist leader of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Mussolini launched Italy into World War II on the side of the Axis powers and became a close ally of Adolf Hitler.

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Benito Mussolini

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(1889-1945) Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, Hitler was the mastermind behind the Holocaust. His rapacious quest for power provoked World War II.

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Adolf Hitler

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(1892-1975) Spanish general who became head of state after his fascistic troops prevailed over the republican Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He remained head of the Spanish state until his death in 1975.

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Francisco Franco

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(1892-1975) Spanish general who became head of state after his fascistic troops prevailed over the republican Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He remained head of the Spanish state until his death in 1975.

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Cordell Hull

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(1892-1944) Known as the “rich man’s Roosevelt,” Willkie was a novice politician and Republican businessman who lost to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential campaign. Although Willkie won more votes than any previous GOP candidate, Roosevelt still beat him by a landslide.

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Wendell L. Willkie