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APUSH Chapter 35
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cordell Hull | FDR's Secretary of State who promoted the Reciprocal Trade Agreement, low tariffs, and Good Neighbor Policy |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian dictator who at first helped Hitler gain power before becoming a victim of Nazi aggression in 1941 |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy; sought to recreate a Roman empire; allied with Hitler; invaded Ethiopia |
| Adolf Hitler | Fascist leader of Germany; started WWII |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist rebel leader against the Spanish Loyalist govt.; Hitler and Mussolini helped him become dictator of Spain |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister of GB; led resistance against Hitler; involved with Atlantic Conference |
| Charles Lindbergh | leader of America First Committee; spokesman for isolationism |
| Wendell Wilkie | Republican presidential nominee in 1940 and lost to FDR |
| reciprocity | a mutual agreement between 2 nations to engage in reciprocal trade |
| totalitarianism | a system of government in which the state is given absolute power |
| isolationism | practiced by the US up until WWII; the government and the public did not want to be involved in any international disputes |
| London Economic Conference | international economic conference with the goal of stabilizing currency in order to end the Great Depression, 1933 |
| Good Neighbor Policy | established and reinforced by FDR to create good relations with Latin America; went against Roosevelt Corollary |
| Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act | 1934; signed by Cordell Hull to increase American exports; decreased the tariff |
| Nazi Party | German Fascist party led by Hitler |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | alliance of Hitler and Mussolini |
| "merchants of death" | a nickname given to the businesses blamed for causing US entry into WWII because they wanted to protect foreign investments in Britain and France |
| Nye committee | 1934; formed to investigate whether or not munitions manufacturers and bankers were pro-WWI solely to make profit; increased anti-war atmosphere and push to pass Neutrality Acts |
| Neutrality Acts | 1935, 1937; prohibited sale of arms to belligerents in a war; banned loans to belligerents; citizens cannot travel to countries in war or travel on armed ships; passed to prevent American involvement in future overseas wars |
| Spanish Civil War | 1936-1939; conflict between the rebel Fascist forces led by General Franco and Spain's loyalist government |
| China incident | As Japan was engaged in war with China, four American ships were accidentally bombed and sunk by the Japanese (were evacuating U.S. officials). |
| "Quarantine" speech | FDR's speech in 1937 that proposed strong US measures against overseas aggressors such as Japan |
| Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact | Germany and Russia signed an agreement to avoid war between the two nations; Poland was split up between the two |
| "cash and carry" | also known as the Neutrality Act of 1939; Allies could buy war materials from the US only if they provided transportation and paid in cash |
| "phony war" | nickname for the early phase of WWI; period of silence and inactivity in Europe |
| Committee to Aid America by Defending the Allies | group advocating US support for GB in the fight against Hitler |
| America First Committee | headed by Charles Lindbergh; isolationist group advocating that the US focus on continental defense and non-involvement in WWII |
| lend-lease | 1941; law that made the US the "arsenal for democracy" by providing supposedly temporary military material assistance to Great Britain |
| Atlantic Charter | 1941; US-GB agreement to promote democracy and intentions for improvement post-WWII |
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