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Cordell Hull
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Francisco Franco
Winston Churchill
Charles Lindbergh
Wendell Wilkie
reciprocity
totalitarianism
isolationism
London Economic Conference
Good Neighbor Policy
Reciprocal Trade Agreement
Nazi Party
Rome-Berlin axis
"merchants of death"
Nye committee
Neutrality Acts
Spanish Civil War
China incident
"Quarantine Speech"
Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact
"cash and carry"
"phony war"
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
America First Committee
lend-lease
Atlantic Charter
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| 2299403752 | Cordell Hull | FDR's secretary of state, who promoted reciprocal trade agreements, especially with Latin America | 0 | |
| 2299403753 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition | 1 | |
| 2299403754 | Benito Mussolini | Fascist Dictator of Italy that at first used bullying to gain power | 2 | |
| 2299404527 | Adolf Hitler | Born in Austria, Hitler became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He led the National Socialist German Workers' Party-the Nazi Party-in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II. | 3 | |
| 2299407243 | Francisco Franco | Fascist leader of the Spanish revolution, helped by Hitler and Mussolini. America during times of isolation didn't bother to save the current democratic govt. from him | 4 | |
| 2299407244 | Winston Churchill | A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. | 5 | |
| 2299408310 | Charles Lindbergh | United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974). Apparent isolationist. I have no idea why he is a vocab word. | 6 | |
| 2299408311 | Wendell Wilkie | Popular choice for Repub nominee in election of 1940. Critized New Deal, but largely agreed with Roosevelt on preparedness and giving aid to Britain. Lost to Roosevelt. | 7 | |
| 2299409457 | reciprocity | A mutual exchange of favors or privileges. "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine." | 8 | |
| 2299412990 | totalitarianism | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 9 | |
| 2299413893 | isolationism | A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | 10 | |
| 2299414636 | London Economic Conference | A sixty-six nation economic conference organized to stabilize international currency rates. By Roosevelt revoking U.S. participation, there was a deeper world economic crisis. | 11 | |
| 2299415324 | Good Neighbor Policy | - US would be less blatant in its dominion of Latin Americ | 12 | |
| 2299415325 | Reciprocal Trade Agreement | Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act in 1934. Designed to lower the tariff, it aimed at both relief and recovery. These pacts were essentially trade agreements that stated if the United States lowered its tariff, then the other country would do the same. With the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the president was empowered to lower existing rates by as much as 50% provided that the other country involved would do the same. | 13 | |
| 2299420784 | Nazi Party | German political party joined by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party became the only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. | 14 | |
| 2299424361 | Rome-Berlin axis | 1936; close cooperation between Italy and Germany, and soon Japan joined; resulted from Hitler; who had supported Ethiopia and Italy, he overcame Mussolini's lingering doubts about the Nazis. | 15 | |
| 2299424362 | "merchants of death" | Liberal isolationists' term for companies which manufactured armaments. They felt that the companies were undermining national interests by assisting aggressor nations. These manufacturers would get us into wars. | 16 | |
| 2299425214 | Nye committee | 1934. Senate committee led by South Dakota Senator Gerald Nye to investigate why America became involved in WWI. Theory that big business had conspired to have America enter WWI so that they could make money selling war materials. Called bankers and arms producers "merchants of death." | 17 | |
| 2299425215 | Neutrality Acts | Originally designed to avoid American involvement in World War II by preventing loans to those countries taking part in the conflict; they were later modified in 1939 to allow aid to Great Britain and other Allied nations. and then finally nullfied | 18 | |
| 2299425978 | Spanish Civil War | In 1936 a rebellion erupted in Spain after a coalition of Republicans, Socialists, and Communists was elected. General Francisco Franco led the rebellion. The revolt quickly became a civil war. The Soviet Union provided arms and advisers to the government forces while Germany and Italy sent tanks, airplanes, and soldiers to help Franco. U.S.A didn't help democratic govt. because they were isolationist | 19 | |
| 2299425979 | China Incident | when japan detonated an explosion near beijing in 1937, there was no official war; roosevelt declined to invoke the recently passed neutrality legislation by refusing to call this an officially declared war; had FDR done this, the chinese would no longer be able to have the trickor of munitions and the japanese were able to continue buying war supplies | 20 | |
| 2299426577 | "Quarantine Speech" | The speech was an act of condemnation of Japan's invasion of China in 1937 and called for Japan to be quarantined. FDR backed off the aggressive stance after criticism, but it showed that he was moving the country slowly out of isolationism. | 21 | |
| 2299427577 | Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact | a non-aggression pact between the two countries and pledged neutrality by either party if the other were attacked by a third party. Each signatory promised not to join any grouping of powers that was "directly or indirectly aimed at the other party." It remained in effect until 22 June 1941 when Germany implemented Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union. | 22 | |
| 2299427578 | "cash and carry" | policy adopted by the United States in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in fully in cash and transported them. | 23 | |
| 2299428706 | "phony war" | was a phase in early World War II marked by few military operations in Continental Europe, in the months following the German invasion of Poland and preceding the Battle of France. Although the great powers of Europe had declared war on one another, neither side had yet committed to launching a significant attack, and there was relatively little fighting on the ground | 24 | |
| 2299430697 | Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies | leading U.S. group advocating American support for Britain in the fight against Hitler | 25 | |
| 2299431504 | American First Committee | largely Midwestern isolationist organization support by many prominent citizens who were opposed to the US joining WWII. (1940-1941). They argued that a Nazi victory would pose no threat to national security and therefore the US should stay out of war | 26 | |
| 2299431505 | lend-lease | lend-lease program in which the arms and ships, etc. that the U.S. lent to the nations that needed them would be returned when they were no longer needed. Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." | 27 | |
| 2299433569 | Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war | 28 |
