Questions and Answers
Good Neighbor policy - ANSWER - FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by
using economic influence rater than military force in the region
Pan-American conferences - ANSWER - US pledged in Uruguay 1933 to -never again intervene w/ internal
Latin American affairs
In Buenas Aires 1936: warned if Germany started shit then the hemisphere WOULD come together +
combat it
Soviet Union recognized - ANSWER - 1933 , increased trade + boosted economy
Independence for Philippines - ANSWER - Tydings-McDuffie Act 1934: gave independence + gradual
removal of US presence [cost too much to govern]
reciprocal trade agreements - ANSWER - FDR favored reducing tariff to increase international trade, plan
by Cordel Hull gave FDR power to lower tariffs up to 50% for nations that did the same for US imports
Japan takes Machuria - ANSWER - defied open-door policy + League of nations, marched troops into
Manchuria Sept. 1931, renamed the territory Manchukuo + established a puppet govt. League of Nations
condemned Japan, Japan left League. League of Nations never taken seriously
Stimson Doctrine - ANSWER - Secretary of State Henry Stimson declared in 1932, US would honor its 9-
Power Treaty obligations by refusing to recognize any territorial [Manchukuo] that had been established
by force. League of Nations adopted similar statement
fascism - ANSWER - idea that people should glorify their nation + their race through aggressive use of
force
, Charles Lindbergh - ANSWER - Voice for isolationists, America First Committee [keep America out of
WW2]
Quarantine speech - ANSWER - FDR tested public opinion in 1937 when Japan invaded China by making
the proposition that democracies act together to "quarantine" the aggressor. People responded
negatively
cash and carry - ANSWER - Congress passed a less restrictive Neutrality Act that allowed war faring
countries to buy US arms if they used their own ships + paid cash. FAVORED BRITAIN
Italian Fascist party - ANSWER - Attracted dissatisfied war veterans, nationalist, and those afraid of rising
communism. Marched on Rome and installed Mussolini in power.
Benito Mussolini - ANSWER - leader of Italian Fascist party, (part of Axis powers)
Ethiopia - ANSWER - 1935, Mussolini ordered Italian troops to invade Ethiopia, League of Nation + US
objected but didn't stop it. Italian gained Ethiopia
German Nazi Party - ANSWER - Nazi, rose in 20's in reaction to economic conditions after war + treaty of
Versailles. Hitler -> bullied Jews, used Fascist ideology to increase membership. [unemployed German
workers] Anti-Semetic, gained control in 1933
Adolf Hitler - ANSWER - Leader of the Nazi party in Germany, [Axis powers]
Axis Powers - ANSWER - Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
Spanish Civil War - ANSWER - ideological struggle between forces of fascism, military dictatorship
established
Francisco Franco - ANSWER - Fascist leader of the Spanish revolution, helped by Hitler and Mussolini