Acts and Policies People Places Parties Speeches and Laws
100
Herbert Hoover’s foreign policy
Herbert Hoover’s policy that stated that the US should not enter into firm commitments to preserve the security of a their nations?
100
Cordell Hull
Suggested a plan which gave the president the power to reduce US tariffs up to 50% for nations that reciprocated with comparable reductions for US imports.
100
Ethiopia
Mussolini invaded, conquering it in 1936. The League of Nations failed
to take any effective action against Mussolini, and the U.S. just
looked on.
100
Fascism
What is the idea that people should glorify their nation and their race through an
aggressive show of force.
100
Quarantine Speech
In 1937 in this speech Franklin D. Roosevelt compared Fascist
agression to a contagious disease, saying democracies must unite to
What is the quarantine agressor nations. Pubilc reaction was overwhelming
negative.
200
Stimson Doctrine
Secretary of State Henry Stimson declared in 1932 that the US would honor its treaty obligations to the nine power treaty under what doctrine
200
Benito Mussolini
Founded Italian fascists party and was their leader
200
Rhineland
Hitler openly defied the Versailles Treaty by ordering German troops
to march into this place.
200
Italian Fascist Party
What Attracted dissatisified war veterans, nationalist, and those afraid of
risinf communism. Marched on Rome and installed Mussolini in power.
200
Cash and Carry
What is the Stated the warring nations wishing to trade with the U.S. would have
to pay cash and carry the goods away in their own ships. Benefitted
the Allies, since German ships could not reach the U.S. due to the
Allied blockades.
300
The Good-Neighbor Policy
Roosevelt promised this toward other nations of the Western Hemisphere?
300
Adolf Hitler
Nazi leader. Used bullying tactics aginst Jews as well as Fascist
ideology to increase popularity with disgruntled, unemployed German
workers. Gained control of German legislature in early 1933 and became
a dictator.
300
Czechoslovakia
Germany had a right to take over a strip of land here, called Sudetenland.
300
German Nazi Party
What Arose in 1920's in reaction to deplorable economic conditions after
war and national resentments over Treaty of Versailles.
300
Four Freedoms speech
What is the Speech that proposed lending money to Britain for the purchase of U.S.
war materials and justified policy because ot was in defense of "four
freedoms." Given by Roosevelt.
400
London economic conference of 1933
International economic conference called by League of Nations when proposals were made to stabilize currencies Roosevelt withdrew his support.
400
Francisco Franco
Fascist leader of Spanish rebels who, with the help of fascist Italy
and Nazi Germany, overthrew the liberal Spanish Republic in the 1936
Spanish Civil War.
400
Sudetenland
A strip of land in Czechoslovakia, where most people were german
speaking. Germany wanted to take over it.
400
Ignore
Ignore
400
Atlantic Charter
What is the meeting in August 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill developed a statement of common
principles and war aims.
500
The Tydings-McDuffie act of 1934
Provided for the independence of the Philippines by 1946 and gradual removal of the US military presence from the islands.
500
Wendell Wilkie
Popular choice for Repub nominee in election of 1940. Critized New
Deal, but largely agreed with Roosevelt on preparedness and giving aid
to Britain. Lost to Roosevelt.
500
Pearl Harbor
U.S. naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japanese forces on
December 7, 1941. The surprise attack killed 2,400 and drew the United
States into World War II.
500
Ignore
Ignore
500
Lend-Lease Act
What Permitted Britain to obtain all the U.S. arms it needed on credit.






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