APUSH- Period 7 Frame 7 Vocab

International meeting to bring about a reduction in naval arms race that resulted in a series of treaties

outlawed aggression and war as tools of foreign policy - 62 nations signed

Latin American countries who were controlled by American big businesses like United Fruit

pledged that the US would not intervene in Latin American affairs in order to protect US property rights -isolationism

advanced principles of free trade by negotiating treaties to lower tariffs by as much as 50% with other counties

FDR policy of trade reciprocity (free trade) with Latin America; Important to have all nations in the Western Hemisphere united in light of foreign aggressions.

1931 - Japan invades and conquers Manchuria

Congressional investigation of the charge that WWI was needless and the US entered so munitions owners could make big profits - “merchants of death.” Concluded that that bankers wanted war to protect their loans and arms manufacturers to make money

When the President proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect such as stop all sales to belligerent nations

Policy of selling non-military and eventually military goods to Allies in an arrangement where no loans were accepted and the buyer must retrieve sold items from the US

1937 Japanese war with China leading to the Rape of Nanjing

FDR used this to test the temperature of Americans citizens for more aggressive response to Germany and Japan

Japanese attack on a US gunboat in the Yangtze River

Hitler’s desire to join all German speaking people

Hitler’s desire to increase living space (territory) for German speaking people

Meeting with Hitler where France and Great Britain appeased Hitler by giving him Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia

FDR policy where FDR persuades Congress in special session to allow limited US aid to European democracies: sell weapons to the European democracies on a “cash-and-carry” basis

Military goods can be sold on a cash and carry basis to England and France

Deal between Germany and USSR where Russia does not retaliate when Hitler invades Poland in exchange for half of Poland

1939-40 USSR occupation of Baltic Nations (1940) of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – which they lost in the Brest Litovsk Treaty in WWI

Part of France that complied with Germany after France fell to Germans

Unprecedented 3 rd term for a president (FDR_

supported by many Repubs and started by Harvard Law students – spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh –supported isolationism