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Question | Answer |
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Policy that stated that warring nations would have to pay up front and carry goods away in their own ships; revision of previous neutrality provisions | Cash and Carry |
Investigation of the supposed excessive profits made by American financiers and arms manufacturers during WWI | Nye Committee |
Stated that the US would not recognize territory won by aggression in Asia | Stimson (or Hoover-Stimson) Doctrine |
Trial balloon by FDR on collective security in 1937 | Quarantine Speech |
Abrogated by the US as part of the Good Neighbor Policy | Platt Amendment |
Agreed that if a nation outside the Western hemisphere attacked a nation in the hemisphere it would be perceived as an attack on all the nations in the hemisphere | Buenos Aires Conference |
Narrowly defeated, would have said that Congress couldn't declare war without a nationwide referendum | Ludlow Amendment |
Said the President must embargo munitions to all belligerents in a war and that US citizens could travel on belligerent vessels only at their own risk | First Neutrality Act |
Said the US was prohibited from extending loans or credit to belligerents | Second Neutrality Act |
American gunboat fired upon by Japan in China | Panay |
Established a "chastity belt" for zones in the Western Hemisphere | Declaration of Panama |
Program of giving aid to allied countries | Lend-Lease |
FDR and Churchill established principles which we were fighting for such as self-determination, freedom of the seas, a postwar organization to provide collective security | Atlantic Charter |
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld ethnic internment of Japanese-Americans on the Pacific coast | Korematsu v. US |
Preliminary meeting to discuss a postwar international organization in 1945 | Dumbarton Oaks |
Meeting of FDR and Churchill to agree to a joint military operation against Italy and established the doctrine of 'unconditional surrender' | Casablanca |
First meeting of the Big Three; agreement to establish a second front in 1944 | Teheran |
Meeting of Big Three which discussed the surrender of Germany and its division into four occupation zones; allowed Soviets to keep Polish territory seized in 1939; Soviets promised to hold democratic elections in Poland and enter war against Japan | Yalta |
Meeting to adopt the United Nations Charter | San Francisco |
Meeting of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin; declared that Japan must surrender unconditionally or face "prompt destruction" | Potsdam |
Counterattack of Germans in last desperate push to keep the allies from crossing into Germany | Battle of the Bulge |
Conference of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference that created a world bank to stabilize international currency | Bretton Woods |
Site of trials of Nazi civil and military leaders for war crimes | Nuremberg |
Agency established to combat inflation by fixing price ceilings | Office of Price Administration |
Agency established to convert factories from civilian to military production | War Production Board |