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FDR was unsuccessful in getting the U.S.
showed that US was still isolationism. |
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| U.S. and the League of Nations |
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| US was not part of the world court but instead sent observers to attend meetings |
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| Washington Naval Conference: purpose and significance |
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1921
disarmament
Construction of big warships was ended for 10 years. Heavy warships between the powers were set at a ratio.
Open Door Policy in China. This conference just lead to an arms race. Since they could not build heavy warships, the powers created lighter craft such as destroyers, cruisers, and submarines. |
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| Four Power, Five Power, and Nine Power Treaties |
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| In the December 1921 Four-Power treaty, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Japan agreed to respect each other’s rights in the Pacific and help each other if another country threatened these rights. The February 1922 Five-Power treaty added Italy. The construction of big ships was ended for 10 years. The number of ships each power possessed was put in ratio to the other powers. The Nine-Power treaty added Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, and China. An Open-Door Policy in China was supported. |
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1928
French and U.S.
denounced war and called for peaceful settlement of disputes
really did nothing. |
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| Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act |
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1934
Hull
allowed the President to lower tariffs up to 50% on specific imports from specific nations as long as that nation lowered tariffs on American products. |
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| Reparations and War Debts |
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| US was dubbed "Uncle Shylock" |
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Dawes - Germany would receive a mostly American loan of $200 million to stabilize its economy and would resume reparation payments.
Young plan - reduced German reparations
after stock market crash all war payments were cancelled |
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| U.S. Recognition of the USSR: reasons for |
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limit Japanese expansion in the Far East
end propaganda efforts in the U.S.
protect the rights of Americans in the USSR |
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the U.S. would stay out of Caribbean affairs
This policy was an effort by the U.S. to heal strained Caribbean affairs. |
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Mexico threatened to nationalize American oil and mining investments
Morrow to Mexico to settle the dispute |
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| repudiating the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary. |
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| Pan-American Conference, 1933 |
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| This effectively eliminated the Platt Amendment |
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| Declaration of Panama, 1939 |
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| declared a 300 mile safety zone in the Western Hemispher |
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U.S. plan to take over French and Dutch colonies in the Western Hemisphere instead of allowing the Germans to conquer them.
It also declared that an attack on a Western Hemisphere nation was an attack on all Western Hemisphere nations. |
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| Trujillo, Somoza, Batista: U.S. relations with |
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Trujillo - Dominican Republic
Somoza - Nicaragua
Batista - Cuba
The US created many dictatorships loyal to the U.S. |
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| declared that all territorial gains made in china by japan were not going to be recognized by the US. |
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| Nye Committee; "Merchants of Death" thesis |
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Nye said that banks and munitions manufacturers were the reason that we entered world war 1.
was later proven false. |
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| Spanish Civil War; U.S. response |
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1936 to 1939 war
Loyalist Republicans vs Franco’s Fascists (supported by Italy and Germany). France and Britain stayed neutral. 300,000 American volunteers known as the Lincoln Battalion fought on the Republican side. Franco’s Fascists won and seized power. |
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| Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937: purpose and provisions of |
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| The Neutrality Act of 1935 created an arms embargo against all belligerents during war. This would curb American war profiteering. The Neutrality Act of 1936 forbade loans to belligerents. Loans by the U.S. during WWI had not been paid back. The Neutrality Act of 1937 prohibited Americans from traveling on belligerent ships. When the President determined that a state of war existed, belligerent countries would have to pay cash for supplies and carry the supplies on their own ships. ("Cash and carry") |
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| FDR’s "Quarantine" Speech (Oct. 27) |
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| Munich Conference; appeasement |
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| Invasion of Poland; "blitzkrieg" |
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| "Destroyer-for-bases" deal |
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| Election of 1940: candidates and issues |
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| American First Committee: views of Charles Lindbergh |
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| US would be arsenal of democracy –"send guns, not sons"– lend arms and then they can return later – led to America’s rearmament |
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| The Greer, Kearny, and Reuben James |
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| Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 |
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| Forbade US to give any govt loans to any foreign govt. |
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