Acts and Policies | People | Places | Parties | Speeches and Laws |
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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?
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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.
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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. |
Fascism
What is the idea that people should glorify their nation and their race through an
aggressive show of force. |
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. |
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
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Benito Mussolini
Founded Italian fascists party and was their leader
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Rhineland
Hitler openly defied the Versailles Treaty by ordering German troops
to march into this place. |
Italian Fascist Party
What Attracted dissatisified war veterans, nationalist, and those afraid of
risinf communism. Marched on Rome and installed Mussolini in power. |
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. |
The Good-Neighbor Policy
Roosevelt promised this toward other nations of the Western Hemisphere?
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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. |
Czechoslovakia
Germany had a right to take over a strip of land here, called Sudetenland.
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German Nazi Party
What Arose in 1920's in reaction to deplorable economic conditions after
war and national resentments over Treaty of Versailles. |
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. |
London economic conference of 1933
International economic conference called by League of Nations when proposals were made to stabilize currencies Roosevelt withdrew his support.
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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. |
Sudetenland
A strip of land in Czechoslovakia, where most people were german
speaking. Germany wanted to take over it. |
Ignore
Ignore
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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. |
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.
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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. |
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. |
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Ignore
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Lend-Lease Act
What Permitted Britain to obtain all the U.S. arms it needed on credit.
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