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-delegates hoped to organize a coordinated international attack on the global deression
-FDR first consented to send delegates, including SecState Cordell Hull
-But then he decided that he wanted to pursue his own solutions instead
-From there, it fell apart
-Don't know if it really would have helped to have U.S. there, but without it, it showed isolationism, and every-man-for-himself attitude before war
-gave ammo for dictators |
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-(1934) freed Philippines in twelve years.
-This was passed in the hopes that the Filipinos would be nice to us if Japan attacked
-Our imperialistic dreams had kind of been dashed with the Depression
-U.S. gave up army bases, but saved navy base discussion for later
-imposed heavy economic terms
-really much worse for Philippines, left them vulnerable to attack by Japan |
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| Motivations for recognizing Soviet Russia? |
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-bolster trade
-USSR is a friendly counterweight to Germany |
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-noninvolvement in Europe
-warmer relations w/ Lat. America
-Phils?
-Great Depression certainly helped cool off expansionist thirst
-Roosevelt renounced armed intervention in Lat. America
-motive is to not make Latin America the tools of Germany or Japan
-1934 - released Haiti from many obligations of Platt Amendment
-Panama benefitted from similar actions two yrs later
-Tested in Mexico
-seized U.S. properties in 1938
-settlement was reached, tho, in 1941
-Reciprocal Trade Agreements (on another card) |
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| Reciprocal Trade Agreements |
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1934 (THIRTIES!!)
-Secretary of State Cordell Hull pushed for its passing
-aimed at relief and recovery
-avoided "dangerous uncertainties of wholesale tariff revision"
-amended worst parts of Hawley-Smoot tariff
-U.S. agreed to lower rates by 50 percent, if other country did
-aimed at Britain
-negotiated pacts with over 20 countries, tho
-increased trade
-Good Neighbor Policy |
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| When did Mussolini and Hitler come into power? |
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| 1934 - How does Japan upset the international community? |
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-terminated Washington Naval Treaty
-Also, walked out of London conference and accelerated shipbuilding
-By 1935, quit League of Nations |
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1935 - how did Mussolini upset the international community?
BUT how did they choose not to stop it? |
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-Attacked Ethiopia
-League of Nations wouldn't embargo oil, since they didn't want to risk global hostilities |
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Veternas of Future Wars
-In 1936, some Princeton students agitated for an upfront bonus while future frontliners were still alive |
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What senate organization found that we got into WWI for the $?
What were the effects of its report? |
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-Nye Committee
-contributed to isolationism,
-people tried to make munition manufacturing less profitable |
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-when the president declares the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions go into effect
--no American could sail on a belligerent ship,
--sell/transport munitions to a belligerent,
--or make loans to one
-would keep America out of WWI, but not WWII
-helped aggressors forge on by not doing anything about it |
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-dress rehearsal for WWII
-General Franco, fascist dictator, took over republican gov't in Madrid
-Mussolini and Hitler helped (but Hitler wanted to go on to bigger and better thing)
-Also aided a little by USSR
-We wouldn't give arms to either, really hurt the Loyalists
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| In 1937, the Japanese made an attack @ ___, and BLAH happened. |
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Marco Polo Bridge.
Well, it led to an all-out invasion of China, but FDR didn't recognize it as such, so we could still keep giving arms to the Chinese |
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-FDR delivered it in isolationist capital, Chicago
-called for "positive endeavors" to "quarantine" aggressors
-isolationists thought this would lead to armed conflict anyway
-FDR sought less direct means to achieve goals |
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| In 1935, how did Germany upset the international community? |
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openly disobeyed Treaty of Versailles by instituting compulsory military service
-began Holocaust |
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| When did we start drafting our men? |
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| Havana Conference of 1940 |
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| -we agree to uphold Monroe Doctrine, to avoid a situation like the one that happened in East Europe |
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| "Supporters of aid to Britain formed propaganda groups, the most potent of which was..." |
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| The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies |
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Winston Churchill and FDR met about common problems, made
Atlantic Charter
-8 pts
-endorsed by the USSR
-suggestive of Wilson's 14 pts
-opposed imperialistic annexations
-advocated self-determination
-affirmed the right of the people to choose their own government |
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| Attack Germany first, then get Japan |
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| What case ruled that Japanese Internment camps were constitutional? |
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| Smith Connally Anti-Strike Act |
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-allowed gov’t to take over industries that were tied-up by strikes
-strikes against any gov’t-operated industry was considered a criminal offense |
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| Who was exempt from the draft? |
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certain categories of
-agricultural workers
-industrial workers |
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-Mexican agricultural worker responsible for harvesting fruit and grain crops of the West
-came as a result of a lack of workers (they were all fighting overseas), and the deal between U.S.-Mexico
-outlived the war by about 20 years
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| LA, Detroit, Seattle, and Baton Rouge, "Sunbelt" |
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led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatened massive march on Washington in 1941 to demand equal opportunities for blacks in war jobs and in the armed forces
-(Franklin responded w/an executive order banning the former, and the establishment of the air Employment Practices Commission to enforce this)
-Blacks hoped for "Double V" (victory) |
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| "Membership of the NAACP shot up to almost the half-million mark, and a new militant organization, __, was founded in 1942." |
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| Congress of Racial Equality |
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| "The northward migration of African Americans accelerated after the war, thanks to the advent of the___," which did WHAT? |
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| mechanical cotton picker - an invention whose impact rivaled that of Eli Whitney's cotton gin...the South's need for cheap labor disappeared." |
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