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