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| (1930)Raised the tariff even higher, hurting European nation's ability to pay off war debts and generally decreasing international trade. |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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| (1928)Eventually signed by almost every nation in the world, it outlawed war but contained no provisions to enforce it. Japan invaded Machuria and broke it in 1931. (Demonstrative of American efforts to completely avoid entanglements) |
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| (1930)Repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and declared the U.S. had no right to interfere in its neighbor states. |
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| (1933)F.D.R. declared that the U.S. would not interfere in Latin America and would be a "good neighbor." |
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| Washington Disarmament Conference |
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| (1921)Attempted to resolve the perilous Japan-China tensions and slow the naval buildup race between the U.S, Japan, and Britain. None of its policies had any provisions that enforced them. Japan invaded Manchuria and broke the policies in 1931. |
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| (1921)Signed at the Washington Conference, this treaty limited five nations to a specific ratio of battleships and aircraft carriers-- U.S.-5:Britain-5:Japan-3:France-1.67:Italy-1.67 |
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| (1921)Signed at the Washington Conference, it pledged all involved nations to uphold the Open Door policy. |
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| (1921)Signed at the Washington Conference, it replaced the old Anglo-Japanese alliance with an American-designed Pacific security pact. |
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| Name for the pact between Japan, Italy, and Germany, three totalitarian nations. Originally anti-Communist in nature. |
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| Preceding the Neutrality Acts, it spent two years investigating American munitions dealers. |
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| (1935, 1936, 1937)Acts designed to keep America from ever becoming involved in a foreign war again. The first banned selling arms to belligerent nations and warned citizens against sailing on their ships, the second added a ban on loans, and the third limited other sorts of trade to a cash-and-carry basis. In 1939, a revision allowed cash-and-carry sale of munitions. |
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| "merchants-of-death" thesis |
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| The unfounded charge that bankers and munitions dealers had caused American entry into WWI. |
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| Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact |
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| (Aug. 1931)Surprising the international community, these two nations formed a nonaggression pact. Secretly, it contained a provision dividing up Poland. |
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| Coalition of Americans who opposed isolationism, founded in support for the destroyers-for-bases deal. |
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| Destroyers-for-Bases deal |
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| Traded 50 American destroyers to Britain in exchange to build bases on eight British Pacific possessions. |
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| (1941)Program to "lend and lease" goods to nations fighting against aggressors. Deviously named--(you don't want war goods back) |
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| General East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere |
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| Japanese Pacific Empire, which on the surface promised "Asia for Asians" but was in truth "Asia for Japanese." |
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| (1940)Elevated the Rome-Tokyo-Berlin Axis to a defensive, cooperative pact. |
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| (Dec. 7, 1941)The Japanese attack that officially brought America into the war. |
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| (1942)This tank battle in Egypt was the turning point in the European war. |
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| (1942)This naval battle in the Pacific was the turning point in the war against the Japanese. Four Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed to one of America's, leaving the Japanese navy in disarray. |
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| War Production Board (WPB) |
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| Beginning in 1942, it attempted to regulate and encourage war production. |
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| Fair Employment Practices Commitee |
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| Created in 1941, it attempted to prevent racial discrimination in war industries; it was more successful in the public sector than in the private one. |
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| Native-born Americans with Japanese heritage;they suffered intense discrimination and often imprisonment during the war. |
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| (June 6, 1944)Date of first Allied offensive in France, conducted on the beaches of Normandy. |
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| (1945)Meeting of the Big Three just before the end of the war; the Russians, at a military advantage, ended up with control of Eastern Europe and were promised control of Manchuria in exchange for entering the war with Japan once Germany was defeated. |
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| Declaration of Liberated Europe |
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| Signed by the Big Three at the Yalta Conference, it called for the free election of leaders in Europe without providing a method of enforcement or supervision. |
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| Secret U.S. government project to develop atomic bombs during WWII. |
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| (1945)This German counteroffensive in Belgium, narrowly repelled by allied forces, was its last offensive in the war. |
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| Battle of Leyte/Leyte Gulf |
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| (1944)Amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philipines was the most important part of the recapture of the islands. |
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| (1945)This battle was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater, and it finally ended Japanese occupation of the Philippines. |
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| (1945)This bloody battle, the first in which American casualties exceeded those of the Japanese, was the final step in the American island-hopping campaign. |
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