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The Global Crisis 1921-1941

y Hoover makes a 10 wk good-will tour through latin am. And when he wwas inoffice he abstained from intervention of neighboring nations. = withdrew troops

from Haiti and Nicaragua.

y New policy: would grant diplomatic recognition to any government despite how itgained power.

y Hoover repudiated the Roosevelt corollary and Monroe Doctrine by notinterventing in latin am when debt wasnt paid in oct. 31

y Extensions to1921 limits on naval contruction did not occur b/c fr and br. Scaredof german and jap militarism

y Japan invades and conquers Manchuria and attacks shanghaiy FDR enters office 1933y Bombshell message by FDR rejected agremt of currency stabilizationy April 1943 FDR signs bill that prohibits US banks from making loans to anynation in default on debts.y Mistrust created btwn us and ussr b/c us trade failed to gain foothold in ussr

disappointing U.S. and U.S. did little to assure USSR of stopping jap expainsion

in Asia.

y Good-Neighbor policy and Hulls No state has right to intervene in int/externalaffairs or another.

y Neutrality act 1935-estabd mandatory arms embargo v. both sides in any militaryconflict and directed the president to warn u.s. citizens v. traveling on ships of

warring nations.

y Cash and carry policy- warring nations could purchase nonmilitary goods fromthe US and could do so only by [aying cash and shipping their purchases

themselves.

y Spaniash Falangist revolt vs. republican govt. Hitler and Mussolini suprt francow/ weapons

y Chicago oct. 1937- FDR calls for quarantine of aggressors to prevent spread ofwar

y Dec. 12-37 japs bomb and sink US gunboat Panay as it sailed the Yangtze riv. InChina. TookJaps apologies b/c wanted to remain isolationist.

y Gy rearms Rhineland 1936y March-38 Gy marches into Austria and declares an union btwn themGY and Ay Hitler wants Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and C want to fight them but no

one wanted to help, they wantd peace so fr an br met with gy and gave

Sudetenland as long as hitler wouldnt expand.

y Stalin signs non-agression pact with hitler in 1939 aug. freeing gy from two frontwar.

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y Sept. 1st -39 hitler invades Poland. BR and FR declare war on gy on sept 3rd. =began ww2 in Euro.

y Spring 1940-Germany Blitzkrieg or firebombs Denmark and Norway thenNetherlands and Belgium then France.

y June 10th musso invades Fr. From south and hitler attacks from North.y June 22ndFr falls.y Burke-Wadsworth Act-1st peacetime military drafty Lend-Lease- allow us to sell and lend or lease arms to any nation deemed pivotal

to defense of US. England basically had to return weapons US lended.

y 1941 US launches naval war vs. gyy Atlantic Charter- Aug. 1941 Btwn BR and US called for final destruction of Nazi

Tyranny. Statement of War aims.

y Tripartite Pact- loose defensive alliance btwn Gy Italy + Japany July 41 Japs seize cap. Of Vietnam, colony of fr.y FDR warns them not to attck dutch eat indies but Tokyo doesnt respond = US

freezes Jap assets in US = limits jap ability to purchase am supplies

y 7:55 a.M. Sunday Dec. 7th 1941 japs attack pearl harbor.y Dec. 9th senate and house vote to begin war.y Dec. 12thGY and Italy declare war on US. Congress reciprocates.