Chapter 34 Flashcards
London conference of 1933
Wanted exchange-rate stabilization to revive international trade
Roosevelt Backed out of the conference
Tyding’s-McDuffie Act of 1934
Provided Philippine independence after 12 period of economic and political mentoring (1946)
Pam-American Conference in 1933
Non-intervention and good neighbor policy in Latin America.
Dismissed the Big Stick
Marines left Haiti
Ended Platt Amendment
Sec. of State Cordell Hull
Low tariffs -> higher trade
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Set up low-tariff policies with 21 countries
Aimed at relief and recovery
Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)
Germany and Italy alliance agreement
Tripartite Act of 1940
Japan joins axis powers
Ignores Washington Naval Treaty
Johnson Debt Default Act
Forbade countries that owed money to the U.S. from getting any more loans
Nye Committee
Investigated munition manufacturer’s profits
Believed that munition manufacturer’s cause the war to earn more profit
Neutrality Acts of 1935,36, and 37
Could not sail on belligerent ships, sell munitions, or make loans to belligerents
Quarantine Speech (1937)
Response to Japanese invasion of China
Asked Americans to quarantine it’s aggressors and to morally side against them.
How did Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles?
Mandatory military service
Marching troops into Rhineland
Munich Conference (1938)
Response to Hitler taking Sudetenland
Neville Chamberlain wanted appeasement with Germany
“Peace in our time”
Hitler later took all of Czechoslovakia
Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
Stalin and Hitler promised not to fight each other
Hitler could now attack Poland without fear of Soviet intervention
Neutrality Act of 1939
Response to WWII in Europe
Wanted to help Britain and France while remaining neutral
U.S. would sell war goods on a “cash-and-carry” basis
Britain and France ships in Atlantic kept out Germans
“Phony war”
Period in which Germany moved troops from Poland to France, ending when Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, and then Netherlands and Belgium.
They then attacked France
Attack on France in 1940
Maginot Line prepared for German invasion
Germany chose alternate route thru Belgium
Some allies escape thru English Channel (“Miracle at Dunkirk)
France surrenders
Selective Service and Training Act of 1940
1st peace-time draft in history
America First Committee
Isolationist propaganda
Charles Lindbergh
Defend America by Aiding the Allies
Mild-interventionist propaganda
Destroyer Deal of 1940
America gave Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for 8 defensive bases in the Americas
Havana Conference (1940)
Response to fear of German involvement in the Americas
21 American countries agreed to keep Monroe Doctrine
Fight for Freedom Committee
Interventionist propaganda
Repeal all neutrality acts
Lend-Lease Act of 1941
Numbered 1776
Lend or lease limitless supply of arms to the victims of aggression
“ An Act Further to Promote the Defense of the United States.”
“ Arsenal of Democracy”
