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| 8593854465 | London Economic Conference | Initiative to organize a coordinated international attack on the global depression and stabilize currencies, but the US backed out because of the desire to retain inflationary policies. | 0 | |
| 8593854467 | Good Neighbor Policy | United States policy of consultation and nonintervention with Latin American countries, in hopes that they would trade and help defend the Western Hemisphere. | 1 | |
| 8593854468 | Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act | The act was designed to raise American exports and was aimed at both relief and recovery. Led by Cordell Hull, it helped reverse the high-tariff policy. | 2 | |
| 8593854469 | Rome-Berlin Axis | Alliance between Mussolini and Hitler. | 3 | |
| 8593854470 | Tripartite Pact | Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan. | 4 | |
| 8593854472 | Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 | Stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect. | 5 | |
| 8593854473 | Spanish Civil War | Rebels under Fransisco Franco took over Spain with the help of Hitler and Mussolini. | 6 | |
| 8593854474 | Abraham Lincoln Brigade | United States soldiers that went to fight against Franco's coup in Spain. | 7 | |
| 8593854476 | appeasement | Efforts to get Hitler to stop by giving him a little of what he wanted. | 8 | |
| 8593854477 | Hitler-Stalin Pact | Nonaggression treaty between Germany and the USSR. | 9 | |
| 8593854478 | Neutrality Act of 1939 | Allowed European democracies to buy American war materials on a "cash-and-carry" basis. | 10 | |
| 8593854480 | anti-Semitism | Hatred of Jews, led to the persecution of many under Hitler's rule. | 11 | |
| 8593854481 | Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) | Mobs ransacked more than seven thousand Jewish shops and synagogues, 91 died, 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. | 12 | |
| 8593854482 | St. Louis | Ship full of Jewish refugees that were refused entry in Cuba, the United States, and Canada, and were forced to return to Europe where many of them perished under Hitler's rule. | 13 | |
| 8593854485 | America First Committee | Group intent on saving resources to defend America when the time came. | 14 | |
| 8593854486 | Lend-Lease Bill | Sent a limitless supply of arms to the victims of aggression, on the pretext that they would return them (useless, as they would most likely get destroyed). | 15 | |
| 8593854488 | Atlantic Charter | Accepted by Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Soviet Union, a new covenant that would outline the aspirations of democracies for a better world at the war's end (like 14 points). Called for opposing imperialistic annexations, people-chose governments, and disarmament. | 16 | |
| 8593897560 | Nye Committee | Investigated arms manufacturers and bankers of World War I. It claimed they had caused America's entry into WWI. Public opinion pushed Congress to pass the Neutrality Acts to keep us out of WWII. | 17 | |
| 8594142000 | "Phony war" | During World War II, Hitler removed his forces from Poland to focus his efforts in France and Britain. All of Europe fell rather silent at the shock of Hitler's move. This silence and period of inactivity in Europe came to an end when Hitler again moved his forces, and attacked the weaker Norway and Denmark. | 18 | |
| 8594159928 | totalitarianism | A type of government where the government has complete control and the people are powerless. | 19 | |
| 8594163751 | isolationism | The opposition of the involvement of a country in international alliances, agreements, etc. | 20 |
