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What is the neutrality acts? |
It prohibits Americans from traveling on the ships of nations |
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What was President Roosevelt's "Quarantine" speech? |
Roosevelt told the nation that peaceful countries had to act together to quarantine aggressive nations. |
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What was the lend-lease act? |
To sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country the president saw as vital to the defense of the United States. |
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Who were the flying tigers? |
Japan U.S. volunteer fighter pilots. They were recruited to fly in supplies and to engage in combat with Japanese piolots. |
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What is the "dollar diplomacy"? |
To promote U.S. foreign policy goals. |
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What pact was signed by 62 nations, renouncing war? |
Kellog-Briand Peace Pact. |
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What president hosted the Washington naval conference ? |
President Harding. |
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What is collective security? |
Peaceful nations would band together to stop agressors. |
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Who was Winston Churchill? |
A British prime minister. |
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What happened after the Russian revolution of 1917? |
They became the worlds first communist state, known as the Soviet Union. |
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I.D. The destroyer for bases agreement. |
United States exchanged 50 naval destroyers for rights on lands Britain had previously possessed. |
