APUSH Ch. 34 Simple IDs

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London Economic Conference

International economic conference on stabilizing currency that was sabotaged by FDR

Philippines

Nation to which the U.S. promised independence in the Tydings‑McDuffie Act of 1934

Good Neighbor Policy

FDR’s repudiation of TR’s Corollary, promising cooperation with Latin America

Neutrality Acts

Series of mid‑1930s laws attempting to prevent American involvement in future wars

Spanish Civil War

Conflict between Franco’s fascists and the Loyalist government that tested neutrality

Quarantine Speech

Roosevelt’s 1937 call for strong measures against aggressor nations

Munich Conference

1938 meeting where Britain and France yielded to Hitler’s demands for Czechoslovakia

Appeasement

British‑French policy of granting Hitler’s demands to avoid war

Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies

Leading U.S. group advocating support for Britain

America First Committee

Leading isolationist group urging continental defense and non‑involvement

Lend‑Lease Act

1941 law making the U.S. the “arsenal of democracy” with military aid to Britain

Kristallnacht

Night of Nazi attacks on Jewish businesses and synagogues, shocking Americans

Atlantic Charter

U.S.–British 1941 agreement promoting democracy and a future peace organization

Reuben James

U.S. destroyer sunk by German submarines off Iceland in October 1941

Pearl Harbor

Major American Pacific naval base devastated in the December 1941 attack

Cordell Hull

FDR’s secretary of state who promoted reciprocal trade agreements

Adolf Hitler

Fanatical fascist leader of Germany whose aggressions ended U.S. neutrality

Benito Mussolini

Lesser Rome‑Berlin Axis partner who invaded Ethiopia

Gerald Nye

Instigator of Senate hearings attacking “merchants of death”

Francisco Franco

Fascist rebel against the Spanish Loyalist government

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Young American volunteers fighting for Loyalist Spain

Czechoslovakia

Small East European democracy betrayed at Munich

Poland

East European nation whose invasion started WWII

France

Nation whose sudden fall pushed the U.S. toward aiding Britain

Charles A. Lindbergh

Leader of America First and spokesman for isolationism

Wendell Willkie

Dynamic dark‑horse GOP nominee who attacked FDR only domestically

Winston Churchill

Courageous prime minister who led Britain’s resistance

Joseph Stalin

Russian dictator who helped destroy Poland before being attacked

Iceland

North Atlantic nation near whose waters U.S. destroyers were attacked

Hawaii

Site of the naval base hit by Japan’s surprise attack