Foriegn Flashcards
Spanish America
1898
Paris Treaty
$20 million to US
Gain Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
WW1 / Wilson
-$2 billion war loans
-$27 mill to Germany not equal
-Zimmerman
14 Points / Versailles
-1918
-Establishment of League of Nations
-Harding doesn’t join as fails 2/3 majority
1920s
-Great power
-Fordney McCumber 1922 tariff
-Dawes and Young
Roosevelt / Neutrality
-1935 arms
-1936 loans
-1937 Japan sink Panay
-$2 million compensation
-1938 naval expansion
Lend Lease 1940
-Attempt to stop war before America
-1941 British ships repaired
Atlantic Charter
-1941
-Churchill and Roosevelt
Japan
-1941 freezes Japan assets
-No oil
-7th Dec Pearl Harbour
-3 days later Hitler
WW2
-1943 big three meet
-Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939
-$2 billion into bomb
-1946 only 400,000 in army
Yalta
-1945
-Destruction of Japan
Potsdam / Truman
-1945
-Germany into 4 zones
-Soviet declare war on Japan
-6th Aug bomb
-9th Aug bomb
Truman Doctrine
-Containment
-Marshall aid which Soviets reject
Berlin Blockade
-1949
-Air lifts for 2 million residents
NATO
-1949
-Containment
-Hydrogen Bomb 1950 given go ahead
China
-1949 falls to communism
-McCarthyism increases