Chapter 25 test Flashcards
Isolationism
Policy pursued by the United States after World War I
After World War I the United States acted on
Its own foreign affairs, following a policy of unilateralism
Charles Evans Hughes
U.S. Secretary of State who proposed that the United States and Great Britain should be equal in naval strength
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Declared illegal to use war as a tool of national policy
In 1931 President Herbert Hoover declared a year’s moratorium or
Halt on reparations and war-debt payments
In the 1930s the United States intervened in
Latin America mainly to promote U.S. business interests
Depression
Caused social unrest in Latin America and helped bring caudillos to power
The caudillos stayed in power in part by
Restricting free speech
Emiliano Chamorro
General who overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1925
President Coolidge sent Henry Stimson to Nicaragua in 1926 to
Help negotiate the end of the civil war
Anastasio Somoza
Commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard who ordered the assassination of Agusto Cesar Sandino
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico argued
For a compromise between Mexico and the oil companies
Josephus Daniels
U.S. ambassador to Mexico who argued that U.S. oil companies should be compensated for the land they lost in Mexico
Nazi
Party led by Adolf Hitler in Germany
Kristallancht, or “the night of broken glass,” was a result of
Hitler’s anti-Semitism
General Francisco Franco rose to power in Spain as a result of
Dissatisfaction with liberal reforms
The Axis Powers included
Japan, Italy, and Germany
Munich Conference
Conference at which European leaders gave Hitler control of the Sudetenland
Britain and France declared that they would go to war if
Germany invaded Poland
In 1941 the United States helped the
Allies through the Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Agreement between the U.S. and Great Britain that in part called for freedom and international trade
