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APUSH Ch 34&35
Question | Answer |
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Cordell Hull | American politician from Tennessee. the longest-serving Secretary of State, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to as the Father of the United Nations. |
Franciso Franco | military general, and head of state of Spain |
Wendell Willkie | corporate lawyer, dark horse republican nominee, crusaded against inefficiency and anti business policies of New Deal, dropped out against FDR |
isolationism | foreign policy avoids other nations and wars, economic nationalism, legal barriers control trade |
appeasement | was the policy of European democracies in the 1930s aimed at avoiding war with the dictatorships of Germany, Italy and Japan |
London Economic Conference | meeting of representatives of 66 nations at the Geological Museum in London, win agreement on measures to fight global depression, revive international trade, and stabilize currency exchange rates. |
Good Neighbor policy | foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America |
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act | provided for the negotiation of tariff agreements between the United States and separate nations, particularly Latin American countries.[1] It resulted in a reduction of duties. |
Rome-Berlin axis | book by British historian Elizabeth Wiskemann. It is a study of the Axis alliance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany with particular emphasis on the relationship between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. |
Rosie the Riveter | cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II |
Neutrality Acts | sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts, they made no distinction between aggressor and victim, limited the US government's ability to aid Britain against Nazi Germany |
Tuskegee Airmen | group of African American pilots who fought in World War II, were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. |
Quarantine Speech | given by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 5, 1937, in Chicago, calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and isolationism |
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | named after the Soviet foreign minister and the German foreign minister, between Germany and the Soviet Union and signed in Moscow, It was a non-aggression pact between the two countries and pledged neutrality |
America First Committee | foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Peaking at 800,000 members, it was likely the largest anti-war organization in American history |
destroyers-for-bases deal | between the United States and the United Kingdom, September 2, 1940, transferred fifty destroyers from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. |
lend-lease | program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945 in return for, in the case of Britain, military bases |
Douglas MacArthur | general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, receiving the Medal of Honor for his early service in the Philippines |
Chester W. Nimitz | five-star admiral in the United States Navy. He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet , the leading U.S. Navy authority on submarines, |
Jiang Jieshi | political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and Sun Yat-sen's close ally. |
Thomas E Dewey | 47th Governor of New York (1943 – 1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft |
War Production Board |