Richard Nixon and Civil Rights Movement
Isolationism: the dominant foreign policy between 1921-1941
U.S. relations with Europe after W.W.I.
Washington Naval Conference, 1921
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, January, 1928
Harding-Coolidge-Hoover, less likely to intervene in Mexico or the Caribbean.
London Naval Conference, a failure in 1930
Japanese invade Manchuria, Oct. 1931-Feb. 1933. January, 1932, Stimson Doctrine.
Foreign Policy under F. D. Roosevelt, 1933-1939
Concerned with domestic problems, F.D.R. did not do much in foreign affairs in the 1930s.
Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, repudiates Roosevelt Corollary, Dec. 1934.
Hull-Litvinov Treaty, Nov. 1933, U.S. and Soviet Russia exchange ambassadors.
Three Neutrality Acts, 1935-1937
Non-intervention in Spanish civil war, 1936-39
Japan invades China, July, 1937. U.S. sanctions until 1940.
Road to War in Europe
B. Mussolini takes power in Italy, 1922
V.I. Lenin takes power in Russia, 1917-1924
Joseph Stalin takes power in Russia, 1927
A. Hitler takes power in Germany, 1933
Germany rearms and takes Rhineland, 1936
Germany takes Austria, spring, 1938
Munich agreement, September, 1938
Hitler breaks it, March, May, 1939
Hitler-Stalin pact, August, 1939
The War in Europe, 1939-1940
Hitler invades Poland, September, 1, 1939
Britain and France declare war, give no help to Poland, Russia invades Poland, Sept. 17th.
Sitting War, fall, winter, 1939-1940; Russia takes one-third of Finland, Nov-Dec. 1939.
Hitler unleashes blitzkrieg on Denmark and Norway, April, 1940
Hitler takes France by June. Does first mistake
Churchill in power, May, 1940.
The Election of 1940
Roosevelt wants to stay out in fall, 1939.
Fall of France shocks U.S. and Roosevelt works to be drafted for a third term, July, 1940
Roosevelt is nominated a third term, new V.P. in Henry Wallace of Iowa.
Republicans pick Wendell Willkie of N.Y. and Charles McNary of Oregon.
Willkie, Roosevelt and the issue of the war.
Roosevelt, 55% 449, Willkie, 45%82.
U.S. relations with Europe after W.W.I.
Washington Naval Conference, 1921
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, January, 1928
Harding-Coolidge-Hoover, less likely to intervene in Mexico or the Caribbean.
London Naval Conference, a failure in 1930
Japanese invade Manchuria, Oct. 1931-Feb. 1933. January, 1932, Stimson Doctrine.
Foreign Policy under F. D. Roosevelt, 1933-1939
Concerned with domestic problems, F.D.R. did not do much in foreign affairs in the 1930s.
Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America, repudiates Roosevelt Corollary, Dec. 1934.
Hull-Litvinov Treaty, Nov. 1933, U.S. and Soviet Russia exchange ambassadors.
Three Neutrality Acts, 1935-1937
Non-intervention in Spanish civil war, 1936-39
Japan invades China, July, 1937. U.S. sanctions until 1940.
Road to War in Europe
B. Mussolini takes power in Italy, 1922
V.I. Lenin takes power in Russia, 1917-1924
Joseph Stalin takes power in Russia, 1927
A. Hitler takes power in Germany, 1933
Germany rearms and takes Rhineland, 1936
Germany takes Austria, spring, 1938
Munich agreement, September, 1938
Hitler breaks it, March, May, 1939
Hitler-Stalin pact, August, 1939
The War in Europe, 1939-1940
Hitler invades Poland, September, 1, 1939
Britain and France declare war, give no help to Poland, Russia invades Poland, Sept. 17th.
Sitting War, fall, winter, 1939-1940; Russia takes one-third of Finland, Nov-Dec. 1939.
Hitler unleashes blitzkrieg on Denmark and Norway, April, 1940
Hitler takes France by June. Does first mistake
Churchill in power, May, 1940.
The Election of 1940
Roosevelt wants to stay out in fall, 1939.
Fall of France shocks U.S. and Roosevelt works to be drafted for a third term, July, 1940
Roosevelt is nominated a third term, new V.P. in Henry Wallace of Iowa.
Republicans pick Wendell Willkie of N.Y. and Charles McNary of Oregon.
Willkie, Roosevelt and the issue of the war.
Roosevelt, 55% 449, Willkie, 45%82.