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AP History Final Study Guide
Chapter 35-42
35 FDR 1933-1941
• London Conference o In not attending this meeting in 1933, FDR signaled his desire for the US to act unilaterally by taking the US off the gold standard o aimed at stabilizing currency and restarting world trade
• Tydings-McDuffie Act 1934 o provides independence for Philippines (after 12 year period…aka tutelage).
• Good Neighbor Policy o Renouncing armed intervention in Latin America o In an effort to pursue further “isolationism”, the US issued this as a means of rejecting the Roosevelt Corollary from 30 years earlier, abstaining from intervening in Latin America.
• Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act 1934 o Designed to lower the tariff, aimed at relief and recovery. o Secretary of State Hull negotiated pacts with 21 countries saying if US lowered its tariff, then the other country would do the same o Lowered rates by %50 provided that the other country involved would do the same
• Joseph Stalin o Took control of USSR
• Benito Mussolini o Italy
• Hitler o Germany
• Washington Naval Treaty – prevent arms race by limiting naval construction
• Johnson Debt Default Act o Preventing the debt dodging nations from borrowing further in the US
• Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 o 1935 – Forbade the sell of arms to all belligerents involved in conflice o 1936 – Forbade the extension of loans to all belligerants involved in conflict o 1937 - U.S. ships were prohibited from transporting any passengers or articles to belligerents, and U.S. citizens were forbidden from traveling on ships of belligerent nations.
• Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles 1935 o Introduced mandatory military service in Germany o Took over the demilitarized German Rhineland
• Hitler Stalin Pact o Germany could make war on Poland and the Western Democracies without fear of retaliation from the Soviet Union
• WWII o Began When Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France, honoring their commitments
Chapter 35-42
35 FDR 1933-1941
• London Conference o In not attending this meeting in 1933, FDR signaled his desire for the US to act unilaterally by taking the US off the gold standard o aimed at stabilizing currency and restarting world trade
• Tydings-McDuffie Act 1934 o provides independence for Philippines (after 12 year period…aka tutelage).
• Good Neighbor Policy o Renouncing armed intervention in Latin America o In an effort to pursue further “isolationism”, the US issued this as a means of rejecting the Roosevelt Corollary from 30 years earlier, abstaining from intervening in Latin America.
• Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act 1934 o Designed to lower the tariff, aimed at relief and recovery. o Secretary of State Hull negotiated pacts with 21 countries saying if US lowered its tariff, then the other country would do the same o Lowered rates by %50 provided that the other country involved would do the same
• Joseph Stalin o Took control of USSR
• Benito Mussolini o Italy
• Hitler o Germany
• Washington Naval Treaty – prevent arms race by limiting naval construction
• Johnson Debt Default Act o Preventing the debt dodging nations from borrowing further in the US
• Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 o 1935 – Forbade the sell of arms to all belligerents involved in conflice o 1936 – Forbade the extension of loans to all belligerants involved in conflict o 1937 - U.S. ships were prohibited from transporting any passengers or articles to belligerents, and U.S. citizens were forbidden from traveling on ships of belligerent nations.
• Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles 1935 o Introduced mandatory military service in Germany o Took over the demilitarized German Rhineland
• Hitler Stalin Pact o Germany could make war on Poland and the Western Democracies without fear of retaliation from the Soviet Union
• WWII o Began When Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France, honoring their commitments