Ch. 37
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- London Economic Conference, 1933
- 66 delegates, revealed how Roosevelts foreign policy was subordinate to domestic economic recovery
- Tydings-Mucduffie Act 1934
- Provided for indepencece of Phillippines after 12 yrs
- Soviet Union
- Recognized by Roosevelt in 1933
- Latin America
- Refreshing new relations
- 7th Pan American Conference
- Montevideo, Uruguay, US formerly endorsed non intervention
- Haiti
- Last Marines departed in 1934
- Cuba
- Released from hobbles of Platt Amendment in which US was allowed to intervene in affairs
- Guantanamo
- Naval base retained by US in Cuba
- Panama
- US released grip in 1936
- Mexico
- Seized Yankee oil properties in 1938
- Cordell Hull
- Sec of State who was supposed to go to London Conference, high minded Tennessean of the low tarriff school
- Germany
- taken over by Hitler in 1933 "big lie", bad guys
- Italy
- Mussolini seized power in 1922, Fascism, bad guys
- Japan
- on the make, so called have not power, bad guys
- Gerald Nye
- Senator, head of commitee appointed to investigate "blood business"
- Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, 1934
- avoided uncertainty of a wholesale tariff revision
- Johnson Debt Default Act, 1934
- prevented debt-dodging nations from borrowing more from US
- Neutrality Acts of 1935,36,37
- when the pres. proclaimed WHEN PRES PROCLAIMED:the existance of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
- proving ground and dress rehearsal for WW2
- Treaty of Versailles
- used as political capital by Hitler
- Francisco Franco
- led Spanish rebels against left-leaning republican gov.
- Loyalists/Republicans
- fought each other in Spain
- Marco Polo Bridge
- Jap. militarists touched off explosion that led to all out invasion of China, near Beijing
- "Quarantine Speech"
- Chicago 1937, Roosevelt called for "positive endeavors" to "quarantine" the aggressors
- Panay
- American gunboat sunk by Jap. in Chinese waters
- Rhineland, 1936
- Hitler occupied brazenly going against Versailles Treat
- Austria, 1938
- Hitler occupied bloodlessly
- Sudetenland, 1938
- given to Germany by Western Europe, part of Czechoslovakia
- Soviet Union, 1939
- signed treaty with Germany
- Poland, 1939
- invaded by Hitler causing Britain and Grance to declare war on Germany
- "Phony War"
- months following the collapse of Poland in which Britain and France did nuttin
- Finland
- attacked by Soviets to gain a buffer zone, given money by congress
- Denmark and Norway
- overrun in April of 1940 by Hitler
- France
- forced to surrender in late June
- Dunkirk
- French port where Britain salvaged its army
- Conscription
- made provisions for training 2 million troops/yr.
- Netherlands,Denmark, France
- owned orphan colonies in New World
- Havana Conference, 1940
- US agreed to share with it's neighbors the responsibility of upholding the Monroe Doctrine
- Commitee to defend America by Aiding the Allies
- propaganda group designed to help British
- America First Commitee
- determined to avoid American bloodshed at all costs
- Sep 2nd, 1940;Fifty old-model, W.W.1 destroyers
- Roosevelt gave Britain ships in exchange for colonies
- Lend-Lease
- "An act Further to promote the Defense of the US", heatedly debated
- Robin Moor (UNDERLINED)
- unarmed American merchantman, torpedoed by German sub
- June 22, 1941
- Hitler attacks Soviet Union
- Robert A. Taft
- tried for Republican nomination, round faced and flat voiced
- Thomas E. Dewey
- energetic lawyer from NY, ran for Republican nomination
- Wendell Wilkie
- won Republican nomination, German descendent of Hoosier Indiana
- FDR
- alleged dictatorship condemned by Republicans
- Burton Wheeler
- Senator opposed to Lend-Lease Act was "the new Triple A"
- Atlantin Conference, August 1941
- secret meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill
- Convoy of Merchant ships carrying lend-lease supplies
- escorted by Navy as far of Iceland
- Greer (UNDERLINED)
- Sep. 1941 followed and the attacked by German U-Boat, caused Roosevelt to adopt a shoot-on-sight policy
- Kearny (UNDERLINED)
- Oct 17 crippled by German U-Boat, lost 11 men
- Reuben James (UNDERLINED)
- torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Iceland
- Mid-November, 1941
- Congress passed bill allowing merchant ships to be armed
- Sep 1940
- NO FUCKIN CLUE
- Late 1940
- US imposed first of it's embargoes on Japan-bound supplies
- Mid-1941
- Froze Jap. assests in the US
- November and early December 1941
- final tense negotiations between US and Japan