ch33 us history

Sixty-six nation summit with the purpose to coordinate an international attack on the global depression by stabilizing the values of the various nations’ currencies and the rates at which they could be exchanged

London Economic Conference

FDR’s secretary of state who was originally appointed to go to the London Economic Conference before Roosevelt backed out.

Cordell Hull

Passed in 1934, provided for the independence of the Phillipines after a twelve year period of economic and political tutelage

Tydings-McDuffie Act

NAME of FDR’s tour of South America to improve relations between the US and its Latin American neighbors

Good Neighbor Tour

US foreign policy that emphasized consultation and non-intervention with the surrounding nations of the US

Good Neighbor Policy

In Montevido, Uruguay, US delegates formally endorsed non-intervention at THIS CONFERENCE

7th Pan American Conference

The US retained a naval base at THIS AREA in Cuba with the rise of Fulgenicio Batista in the same year

Guantanamo

FDR was praised for traveling to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936 to THIS CONFERENCE

Inter-American Conference

1934 Landmark Legislation that reversed the traditional high-protective-tariff policy and helped to activate the American-led free-trade internation economic system after WWII

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

Ruthless dictator of USSR, executed hundreds of thousands of people and banished millions to remote Siberian forced-labor camps

Joseph Stalin

Fascist of Italy who took control in 1922

Benito Mussolini

Dangerous Dictator of Germany who founded the Nazi party and was a major figure in WWII

Adolf Hitler

1936 Alliance between Nazi Germany and Fascist-led Italy that eventually turned into a military alliance

Rome-Berlin Axis

Military alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan in 1940 that created the Axis Powers

Tripartite Pact

Law that prevented debt-dodging nations from borrowing further in the US

Johnson Debt Default Act

Drafted by Princeton Students as a joke that demanded war bonuses before participation in future wars

Veterans of Future Wars

North Dakota Senator appointed to head the Senate Committee who investigated the relationship between munitions manufacturers and WWI

Gerald Nye

Stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restriction would automatically go into effect

Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937

NAME of war between Spanish Rebels headed by General Francisco Franco against the Republican government in Madrid

Spanish Civil War

NAME of the volunteer American fighters who headed to fight against Franco’s coup in Spain, who was aided by Hitler and mussolini

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Leader of the Spanish Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

General Francisco Franco

NAME of bridge near Beijing that Japanese militarists went on that started the invasion of China

Marco Polo Bridge

Speech delivered by FDR at Chicago 1937 in response to the aggressions by Italy and Japan, sought to “quarantine“ them presumably through economic embargoes

Quarantine Speech

Dubbed as the unofficial “isolationist capital“ of America

Chicago

NAME of American gunboat bombed by Japanese Aviators in Chinese Waters in 1937. The Japanese paid for the indemnity, but this event did not encourage as much outrage as something like it would in previous decades in America

Panay

The practice of making concessions to the aggressive powers, used by Democratic nations like Britain towards countries like Germany to avoid bloodier conflicts

Appeasement

Nonaggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany, led to Germany waging war on Poland and Western democracies without worrying about Russia

Hitler-Stalin Pact

First two countries that Hitler took over (in order of being taken over)

Austria, Czechoslovakia

Allowed European Democracies to buy American war materials in early WWII, but they had to pay for them and transport the munitions in their own ships

Neutrality Act of 1939

NAME for the inactive period following the collapse of Poland, in which Hitler prepared his divisions for a knockout blow at France. Ended when the Soviets attacked Finland to secure buffer territory

Phony war

Famous Prime Minister of England during WWII

Winston Churchhill

NAME of conference in which US agreed to share the responsibility of upholding the Monroe Doctrine with its 20 New World Neighbords

Havana Conference

Known as the “night of broken glass.” Instigated by speech by Joseph Goebbels, massive ransacking of seven thousand Jewish shops and almost all of Germany’s synagogues

Kristallnacht

NAME of ship that Jewish refugees in 1939 boarded to escape Germany. They eventually were returned to Europe in varying countries.

St. Louis

Created after reports of Nazi genocide, saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz

War Refugee Board

Major propaganda group who supported Aid to Britain in WWII

Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies

Isolationist group led by Charles A. Lindbergh, contended that America should protect its own shores if Britain was defeated by Hitler

America First Committee

Republican Candidate for Presidential Election of 1940

Wendell L. Wilkie

Democratic Candidate for 1940 Presidential Election, running for a third term

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Senator of Ohio who was a possible Republican Candidate for the 1940 election. Son of an ex-president

Robert A. Taft

Bill passed that would send supplies of arms to the Allies (victims of aggression) so they could finish the war and keep it away from America

Lend-Lease Bill

First US merchant ship sunken by German U-boats after the Lend Lease Bill. Occurred in 1941.

Robin Moor

First secret meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill on a warship in Newfoundland to discuss common problems.

Atlantic Conference

Significant document from the Atlantic Conferences that had eight-points that argued for the rights of individuals after WWII. Included a promise of no territorial changes and the right of people to choose their own government.

Atlantic Charter

US destroyer that was attacked by a German U-boat while trailing it in September 1941. Neither side was extremely damaged.

Greer

US destroyer that lost eleven men while battling U-boats. Was crippled but not sunken

Kearny

First US destroyer that was torpedoed by German U boats in WWII. Happened in Iceland

Reuben James

An attack in this PLACE in Hawaii by Japan thrusted America into WWII

Pearl Harbor

Name for the day of Pearl Harbor

Black Sunday

One of the first ships to be hit in Pearl Harbor, rebuilt in 1944 and was put back in service

USS West Virginia