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Foreign Policy (1920's-1930's)

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Isolationism
abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
Washington Naval Conference
1921 - president harding invited delegates from Europe and Japan, and they agreed to limit production of war ships, to not attack each other's possessions, and to respect China's independence
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928- General Treaty for the Renunciation of War- United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other states. The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as national policy" except in matters of self-defence.
Dawes Plan
An american plan to restore the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France, who can then pay back their loans from the U.S. This circular flow of money was a success.
Stimson Doctrine
1932- Hoover's Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, said the US would not recognize territorial changes resulting from Japan's invasion of Manchuria
Good Neighbor Policy
Franklin Roosevelt his foreign policy - "good neighbor." used to describe the U.S. attitude toward the countries of Latin America. Under this the U.S. took the lead in promoting good will among these nations.
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 - when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war certain restrictions would automatically go into effect. -No American could legally sail on a belligerent ship, or sell or transport ammunitions to a belligerent nation, or make loans to a belligerent. This displayed that America was not willing to go to war and desired to remain neutral and isolationist.
FDR'S "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.
"Arsenal of Democracy"
A promise by FDR during a fireside chat to assist Britian fight Nazi Germany by giving them military supplies while the US stayed out of the actual fighting of WWII
"Four Freedoms"
Declared by President FDR; 1. Freedom of speech and expression; 2. Freedom of every person to worship in his own way; 3. Freedom from want; 4. Freedom from fear used to promote support of Britain who was fighting too preserve these freedoms.
Lend-Lease Act
the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945.- ended the pretense of neutrality of the US in the war.
Atlantic Charter
1941-Pledge signed by FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war
Pearl Harbor
American base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japanese planes on December 7, 1941. The bombing of Pearl Harbor forced the United States to enter the war.
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