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For Policy 20s-WWII
Foreign Policy from the 1920s to WWII
Question | Answer |
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Tonnage ratio established for construction of large ships and quota put in place for number of ships each country (the US, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy) could have | Five Powers Treaty |
Country that Mussolini invaded as part of his attempt to build an African empire | Ethiopia |
Meeting of many nations in 1921-2 to set standards about how much tonnage of shipping each antion should have | Washington Naval Conference |
1940 law that outlawed any conspiracy to overthrow the government; used later against communists | Smith Act |
Attempt to end war forever | Kellogg Briand Treaty |
Based on the principles of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Hoover's Secretary of State sent letters to China and Japan saying that the US would not formally recognize any change in territory if it was brought about by armed forces | Stimson Doctrine |
Agreement to exchange 50 old WWI American warships in exchange for leases of military bases on British possession in the Western hemisphere | Destroyers for Bases deal |
Investigation into causes of WWI which purported to detail how US banks and businesses encouraged US involvement in WWI because of their investments in weapon sales and loans to Britain and France | Nye Committee |
German annexation of Austria | Anschluss |
American gunboat in China that was sunk in 1937 by the Japanese; they apologized and promised indemnities | Panay Incident |
1936 meeting at which FDR declared that the Western Hemisphere would act together for our mutual safety and good | Buenos Aires Conference |
Clash between German and Italian supported Fascists and communist supported nationalists; became a dress rehearsal for WWII | Spanish Civil War |
Policy to loan the Allied nations arms and other materials; eventually gave aid to Great Britain, the USSR, France, and China and other nations fighting the Nazis | Lend Lease |
FDR, in 1937, compared Fascist aggression to a contagious disease and said democracies must unite to limit fascism's spread | Quarantine speech |
1938 meeting at which Neville Chamberlain gave in to Hitler's demands for part of Czechoslovakia; has become the metaphor for appeasement of dictators | Munich Conference |
Split Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union | Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact |
Meeting of 19 American republics in 1933 that committed each nation to assist each other in times of any attack on one of them | Rio de Janeiro Conference |
Proposal to allow Germany to make its reparation payments in annual installments with an American agreement for the US to loan gold to Germany | Dawes Plan |
Those who opposed American intervention in WWII; leaders were men like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh | American First Committee |
Placed an embargo on exports of war materials to belligerents in WWII; warned US citizens not to travel on belligerent vessels, prohibited loans to belligerent nations; instituted cash and carry policy | Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 |
Highest tax rates on imported goods; exacerbated the Great Depression | Hawley-Smoot Tariff |