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| Independent Internationalism |
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avoiding war
we still want economic ties
we will move forward with OUR goals and take action
we don't want anyone to control us, so we don't join the League of Nations |
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| The Washington Conference |
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1922
decreased naval power
Delegates from Britain, France, Japan, Italy, China, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands met
US was worried that Japan would overtake them in the naval arms race |
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10 year limit on the construction of ships and established rations fro Britain & US, Japan, and France & Italy
still kept us prepared for war |
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reaffirmed the Open Door in China
recognized Chinese sovereignty (independence) |
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| US, Britain, France, and Japan agreed to acknowledge what they owned in the Pacific and not fight over it |
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| Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 |
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62 nations agreed to condemn turning to war in order to solve international controversy
significant because so many countries believe that freedom needs to be sustained |
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produced when the issue of reparations from WWI got worse
reduced Germany's annual payments and extended the repayment period, gradually scaling down Allied obligations
US investors-->Germany-->Britain& France |
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the U.S. increased economic ties in Latin America so that we don't trade with them if we don't like what they're doing
pulls our military out and improves our economic trade
replaced with local national guards and pro-American leaders |
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| one of the first national guard officers in the Dominican Republic |
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leader in Nicaragua
the U.S. doesn't like him
led nationalistic, anti-imperialistic opposition |
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backed by the United States
replaced Sandino in Nicaragua
pro-American |
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Haitians violently protestes, so US soldiers withdrew
we left them in intense instability and poverty |
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Ramon San Martin became president, wanted the US out and Cubans to own everything
US plotted with Serg. Batista to overthrow San Martin, but he screwed us over
we picked Castro to lead |
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they were US citizens
rejected calls for independence or statehood
most remained landless and poor |
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| 1936 Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires |
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US officials endorsed nonintervention
we promise to back off a little bit in Latin America, but things are still tense |
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celebrate supremacy of state over individual, dictatorship over democracy, and state-oriented over free-market economy
Europeans are concerned with the rise of fascism
Franco rises with assistance from Hitler and Mussolini |
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letting it happen
Britain and France appeased Hitler
proved disastrous, because Hitler kept raising his demands
first he goes to Austria, then Sudetenland at Munich Conference |
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| Abraham Lincoln Battalion |
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small group of American volunteers fought in the civil war in Spain
not us sending any real troops, but we still supported them |
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France and Britain agreed to allow Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia, thinking that he would be satisfied after that
form of appeasement |
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nonaggression pact to split Poland
between Stalin and Hitler
another form of appeasement |
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| German Invasion of Poland |
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Hitler launched blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Poland
Britain and France declared war 2 days later
US immediately declares neutrality |
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1934-1936
makes us more hesitant to go to war, because troops are the ones in the middle class spending money, and they would die
showed evidence that corporations had bribed foreign politicians to bolster arms sales |
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| Neutrality Acts of 1935, '36, and '37 |
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35-prohibited arms shipments to either side in a war
36-forbade loans to belligerent countries
37-warring nations who wanted to trade with the US had to cash and carry, also wouldn't sell arms/ loans to countries in civil war (Spain) |
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| Repeal of the Arms Embargo (the Neutrality Act of 1939) |
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| once the war starts, Roosevelt pressed for the repeal because he wanted to permit sales to Britain on a cash-and-carry basis |
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| Japanese Seizure of Manchuria (1931) |
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Manchuria served as a buffer against the Soviets and had vital resources
violated the 9-Power Treaty and the Kellogg-Briand Pact |
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moral lecture as a response to the invasion of Manchuria
said the US has to be careful with punishing Japan because the US did the same thing in Latin America |
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Japanese fores seized Chinese cities and bombed civilians
intensified anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States |
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| Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech |
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response to the Sino-Japanese war
trying to make the people who were upset about not going to war happier
wanted to curb the epidemic of world lawlessness |
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| a Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay |
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we don't want to see Britain fall
Roosevelt said we should lend rather than sell weapons, because Britian was broke
we way for convoys to take the shipments halfway across the Atlantic, which leads to conflicts with German u-boats |
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Churchill and Roosevelt met for 4 days on a British battleship to discuss goals and military strategy
Roosevelt said he couldn't go to war unless provoke |
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Germany and Italy approached Japan because Germany doesn't want the US in the war, and if we're at war with Japan it is made a two-front war
after, Roosevelt put an embargo on aviation fuel and scrap metal to Japan
Japan can't have war if they don't have oil
followed by a month of peace talks; we later find out that they've been planning for war the whole time |
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| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
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December 7th, 1941
Japanese ships crossed the Pacific (radios silence so as not to be detected)
we were attacked at home, which allowed us to defensively declare war on Japan on December 8th
Germany and Italy declared war on us December 11th |
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