Exam III- U.S History Part 2

Disengagement, Isolationism, and War

Isolationism

traditional foreign policy of the U.S, temporarily got out of it during WWI.

-don’t get involved in other foreign affairs.

1928, Kellog-Briand Pact

-15 nations meet to establish that it’s illegal to conduct war. Over 60 nations will agree.

U.S Secretary of State (1928)

Frank Kellogg, one of the principal creators of Kellogg-Briand Pact.

French Foreign Minister

Aristide Briand, one of the principal creators of Kellogg-Briand Pact.

good neighbor policy

refers to the U.S. intervention in Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua.

-the U.S. will withdraw its troops to show its a “______”

totalitarianism

government takes full control like a dictator.

-the people subordinate themselves to one supreme ruler.

Japan (example of totalitarian government)

military control, emperor

Italy (example of totalitarian government)

Fascism

Germany (example of totalitarian government)

Nazism

Soviet Union (Russia) (example of totalitarian government)

communism

Japan

-Japan military dictatorship with expansionist goals under an emperor.

-aggression

-invasions of Chinese Manchuria in 1931.

1932, Hoover-Stimson Doctrine

U.S. will not recognize territory acquired by agression.

Secretary of State (1932)

Henry Stimson

Italy

-Benito Mussolini premier in 1922.

-dictatorial socialism referred to as fascism.

Fascism

merger of government and big business.

Germany

-blamed for WWI

-adolf hitler chancellor 1933

-state controlled economy and territorial expansion

-jews and communists as scapegoats

-war debts ($10 billion), Reparations ($33 billion)

Nazism

to have control of military (another form of socialism).

Appeasement Policy

we won’t interfere with what Germany is doing.

Invasion of Poland

Germany, Italy, Japan vs. England and France

1941, Pearl Harbor, December 7

-U.S. declares war on Japan on the 11th

-start of WWII

Rome-Berlin Tokyo Axis Agreement

was honored by Germany and Italy who later declare war on the U.S.