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| Postwar mood of detached indifference to global affairs and official neutrality towards foreign relationships. |
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| the principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good, sometimes as contrasted with nationalism, or devotion to the interests of a particular nation. |
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| prohibited even private loans to any government that had default on its debts to America. |
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| Proclaimed by FDR in his first inuagural address in 1933, it sought to improve diplomatic relations between the United States and its Latin American neighbors. |
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| Since the rise of German Nazism, which called itself "National Socialism", the term has been used in Europe and North America almost exclusively by political parties with racial nationalist views. |
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| 1934 Act that authorized the President to lower tariff rates as much as 50% of countries that made similar concessions on American products; agreements were made with 14 countries by the end of 1935, reaching a total of 29 by 1945. |
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| Japan, germany, and Italy. directed at the communist threat. Thus establishing Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis. |
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| FDR. stated no sales of ammo to all warring nations when the president proclaimed a state of war existed. |
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a prohibition of exporting arms to belligerent nations
a ban on loans to belligerents, except short-term credits
Americans were prohibited from travelling on belligerent vessels
American ships were forbidden from carrying arms to belligerents |
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| 1937 - In this speech Franklin D. Roosevelt compared Fascist agression to a contagious disease, saying democracies must unite to quarantine agressor nations. |
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| 1937 - On the Yantze River in China, Japanese aircraft sank an American gunboat escorting tankers. The U.S. accepted Japan's appologies. |
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| September, 1939 - Germany used series of "lightning campaigns" to conquer Poland. The invasion caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. |
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| Act of 1941 who allowed US to lend or lease arms and other supplies to the allies, signifying icreased involvment in WWII |
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| Pact between Japan, Italy, and germany Sept 27, 1940, each pledged to attack any nation who attacked any of them. |
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| NY district attorney who had won fame as a racket buster; at 38 seemed yound and unseasoned. |
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| Lessened the tension in the feuds between the U.S. and Japan by recognizing Japan's sphere of influence in China in exchange for Japan's continued recognition of the Open Door policy in China. |
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| Dictator who seized power in Italy 1922 and organized the fascist movement, a hybrid of nationalism and socialism, entered WWII in 1940 as Germany's ally. |
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| Gerald Nye of North Dakota believed that the U.S. should stay out of foreign wars. |
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| Dark-Horse Rep who ran against FDR in 1941. Produced FDR's narrowest victory. |
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| Isolationist Senator. believed WWII is "nothing more than another chapter in the bloody volume of European power politics." Nazi victory is no threat to national security. |
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| Fiesty British Prime Miniser who defied the German invasion of Great Britain in WWII |
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| SOS to Hoover. Stimson Doctrine: US refused to recognize any treaty that violated American treaty rights. SOW to FDR |
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| SOS under FDR whose grand scheme of reciprocal trade agreements was the chief exception to the administrations isolationism. |
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| proposed constitutional amendment that would have required a public referendum of declaration of war except in case of attack on American Territory; measure was in 1939 under severe pressure from the White House. |
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| FDR asked congress to extend neutrality laws to cover civil wars. 1937. COngress did so with one dissenting vote. |
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| BR and FR could send their own freighters to the US, buy supplies with cash, and take what they wanted. US ships were excluded from ports of warring nations. |
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| Largely Midwestern isolationist organization supported by many prominent citizens. 1940-1 |
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