The London Confrecnce

summer of 1933 66 nations send delagets to the london economic confrence; confrence hoped to cordinate an international response to the global depression and wanted to stablize currinces and exchange rates

president roosevelt opposed the confrence because he felt it inteerfered with his economic plans to fix the AMERICAN economy

Confrence fell apart with out american support

Freedom for (from?) the Filliponos and recognition for the Russians

isolationist polocies in america led to a withdraw from asia

Tydings- McDuffle act of 1934 : independence for the phillipines by 1946 because the nation didnt want to have to support the phillipines in the case of a japanese attack

1933 roosevelt formaly recougnizes the soviet union opening trade and fostering a friendship to allow trade counterbalaniceing the threat of german power in european and japanese power in asia

Becoming a Good Neighbor

FDR starts the Good Neighdor Polociey- america wont interfere with latin american countries. Haiti 1943- all marienes left

released some control over Panama and Cuba when Mexican goverment seized american oil properties in 1938 FDR stuck to his word and it was resoloved in 1941

Seceratary Hull’s Reciporcal Trade agreements

Reciporal Trade Agreement Act of 1934- designed to lower the tariffs, allowed president to lower tarriffs with a country if a country also lowered there tarriffs

SEceratary of State Hull Secceded in; negotiationg pacts with 21 countries by 1939

increase in US trade and paved the way for american led free trade in international economic system post WW2

Storm Celllar Isolationism

Totaltarianism spread through Europ following the great depression ( yes it affected the whole world)

Jospeh Stalin- Communist leader of USSR and killed hundreds of thousands of political opponets to gain and mantain power

Benito Mussolini- took contral of italy in 1922

Adolf Hitler- Impulsive facist racist leader of germany took control in 1933

1936 Rome Berlin Axis- Hitler and Mussilin ally themselves

1934 japan ternimates the washinton Naval treaty accelerated and production of large naval ships

Mussolini attacked ethiopia in 1935

america remains isolated because they thought the ocean would protect them

Jhonson Dedt Default Act of 1934- prevented debt doging nations from bowworing from the US any more

Congress Legislates Neutrality

Neturality acts of 1935, ‘36 ‘37 - sought to keep america out of war if the president proclaims that there is a forgien war tariffs would immeaditly go into effect to both the victum and the agressor and no American could legally sail on one of their ships, sell or transport munitions to them, or give them loans.

Angered allies and helped provoke agresoors through the lack of deterient

America dooms loyalist Spain

spanish civil war of 1936-’39 started when spanish rebels leb by facist franciscon franco rose against left wing republican goverment in madrid aided by hitler and mussilini franco overthrew the loyalist regme wich was supported by the USSR

dress rehersal for ww2 because it involved many of the same countries as the infamous war

Abraham Lincone Brigade- fought for the loyalists as a small group of americans

congress amended nuetrality to apply an arms embargo to both groups

Appeaseing Japan and Germany

1937 JApan invades China FDR refuses to call it a war so the nuetrality legislation didnt take affect because he didnt want to cut off mutition sales to china ( they were our friend at that point)

Japan could still buy war supplies for us though

Quarentien Speech of 1937-FDR gave the speech wich proposed economic embargos against the agressive dictators the public disliked so the plan fell threw

!937 Panny-;american ship sunk by Japan but tokyo apologized fast and USA acepted

1935 violation of treaty of versalli; hitler violates when he introduced manditory military service in germany broke it agian when he took over the german rhineland in 1936

March 1938 ; hitler invadeds australia and australia voterd for occupation so there wouldnt be a forceful take over

at a confrence in munich germany in september 1938 western european democracies said sure hitler you can have sudenland (part of checocolsovacia) in an attempt at apeasement in march 1939 he took over the rest of checkolsovacia

Hitler;s Belligerency and US Neutrality