Chapter 33: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

Key Ideas

 * World War II
 * Interventionists
 * Isolationists
 * U.S. isolationism
 * U.S. involvement in World War II
 * Attack on Pearl Harbor

Timeline
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1931

 * Japan attacks Manchuria

1933

 * Hitler becomes Führer

1935

 * Mussolini captures Ethiopia

1936

 * Spanish Civil War starts; ends 1939
 * "dress rehearsal"
 * Hitler captures Rhineland

1937

 * Japan attacks China

1938

 * Hitler captures Austria

1939

 * Britain and France attempt to appease Hitler
 * Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
 * Hitler invades Poland
 * Britain and France declare war
 * Hitler starts the "Final Solution" (ghettos introduced late-30s)

FDR declines to participate in London Conference

 * for increasing trade and stabilizing exchange rates
 * America First "Movement" - hyper-isolationism
 * The Nye Committee on WWI
 * Tydings McDuffie Act
 * Quarantine Speech - Japan

Latin America - big bro proteccs the Americas

 * "Good Neighbor Policy"
 * Moral diplomacy but functinoal
 * Removed US troops
 * Reciprocal Trade Agreements

1933

 * FDR declines to participate in London Conference

1935

 * Neutrality Act of 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938

1936

 * Neutrality Act of 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938

1937

 * Neutrality Act of 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938

1938

 * Neutrality Act of 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938

1939

 * Neutrality Act of 1939
 * Would sell supplies to democracies
 * for cash ("cash and carry")
 * no delivery
 * not neutral