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20 Cards in this Set
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London Economic Conference
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60 nations meet to stabilize international currency rates; FDR decides to exclude America
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Tydings-McDuffie act
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independence from Philippines; more freedom for the US; Philippines not ready
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Good Neighbor policy
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departure from Monroe Doctrine; stressed nonintervention
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Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
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reversed high-tariff; President can negotiate lower tariffs w/ the Senate
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totalitarianism
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Country over individual
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Rome Berlin Axis Treaty
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Hitler and Mussolini, dictators of Germany and Italy, ally together
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Johnson Debt Default Act
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Prevented debt-ridden countries from borrowing further from U.S.
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Neutrality Act of 1935, 1936, and 1937
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Short-sighted acts passed to prevent American munitions from being sold to any country in conflict
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Spanish Civil War (Madrid)
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Rebels overthrow republican power of Madrid; lead by General Francisco Franco
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Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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3,000 young men and women head to Spain as volunteer fighters
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Quarantine Speech
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FDR calls for a "quarantine" of land(power) hungry dictators of Europe through embargos
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Appeasement
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Conference between France and Britain to try and halt Hitler's conquests; they give him part of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler-Stalin pact
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USSR and Germany agree not to fight; allows Hitler to attack other European democracies w/o concern of Russia
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Neutrality Act of 1939
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America could sell munitions but other countries had to pay in cash and transport them on their own ships
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Kristallnacht
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German for "night of broken glass" ; destruction of thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses
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War Refugee Board
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saved thousands of Hungarian Jews form deportation to Auschwitz
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America First Commitee
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The main isolationist propaganda group; created when FDR proposed helping Britain against Germany
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Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
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Major pro-aid the British propaganda group
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Lend-Lease Bill
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Allows U.S. to sell supplies of arms to any nation defending itself against the "Axis" powers
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Atlantic Charter
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8 point plan from Winston Churchill to restore peace and disarmament
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