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| 6416687482 | London Economic Conference | A meeting in the summer of 1933 where delegates hoped to organize a coordinated international attack on the global depression. | 0 | |
| 6416687483 | Good Neighbor Policy | A policy focused on consultation and nonintervention that was put to the test when Mexico seized Yankee oil properties in 1938. Roosevelt successfully resisted the badgering and a settlement was threshed out in 1941. | 1 | |
| 6416687484 | Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act | Designed to lift American export trade from the depression doldrums, aimed at both relief and recovery from the Depression. | 2 | |
| 6416687485 | Rome-Berlin Axis | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini joined forces for WWII. | 3 | |
| 6416687486 | Johnson Debt Default Act | Prevented debt-dodging nations from borrowing further in the United States. | 4 | |
| 6416687487 | Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 | Acts that prevented the U.S. from entering any world conflicts. They said that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect. No American could legally sail on a belligerent ship, sell or transport munitions to a belligerent, or make loans to a belligerent. | 5 | |
| 6416687488 | Abraham Lincoln Brigade | Around 3,000 men and women headed to Spain to fight as volunteers against Francisco Franco. | 6 | |
| 6416687489 | Quarantine Speech | A speech given by FDR in Chicago in 1937 calling for "positive endeavors" to "quarantine" the aggressors by economic embargoes. Isolationists reacted with a cyclone of protest. | 7 | |
| 6416687490 | Appeasement | An agreement between the western European democracies and Germany that gave the Sudetenland to the Nazis, in hopes that it would prevent Hitler from trying to invade other European nations. | 8 | |
| 6416687491 | Hitler-Stalin pact | Gave Nazi Germany the "green light" to make war on Poland and the Western democracies without retaliation by the Soviet Union. | 9 | |
| 6416687492 | Neutrality Act of 1939 | Allowed European nations to buy American war materials on a "cash-and-carry" basis. This meant that they would have to transport the munitions in their own ships after paying for them in cash. | 10 | |
| 6416687493 | Kristallnacht | Also known as, "the night of broken glass," an attack against the Jewish people of Germany on November 9, 1938. Mobs ransacked more than 7,000 Jewish shops and nearly all of the country's synagogues. | 11 | |
| 6416687494 | War Refugee Board | Saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation to the notorious death camp at Auschwitz. 150,000 Jews found refuge in the United States. | 12 | |
| 6416687495 | Lend-Lease Bill | "An Act Further to Promote the Defense of the United States." "Send guns, not sons." "Billions, not bodies." Sent money to countries fighting against Nazi Germany in order to keep the war on the east side of the Atlantic ocean. | 13 | |
| 6416687496 | Atlantic Charter | Outlines the aspirations of the democracies for a better world at war's end. They argued for the rights of individuals rather than nations, laying the groundwork for universal human rights. It opposed imperialistic annexations, no territorial changes contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants, the right for the people to choose their own form of government, and to regain the governments abolished by the dictators. Declared for disarmament and a peace of security, pending a "permanent system of general security." | 14 | |
| 6416687497 | Pearl Harbor | Japanese bombers who came from distant aircraft carries bombed Pearl Harbor of Hawaii on "Black Sunday," December 7, 1941. Around 3,000 American casualties and the demolition of many U.S. aircrafts. | 15 | |
| 6416687498 | Benito Mussolini | Italy's facist dictator that formed an ally called the Rome-Berlin axis with Nazi Hitler. | 16 | |
| 6416687499 | Adolf Hitler | A fanatic with a toothbrush mustache. Also led Nazi Germany and was the conductor of the Holocaust. Leader of the Rome-Berlin Axis. Created some mediocre (at best) paintings. Could be classified as a big jerk. May have committed suicide before being captured. |  | 17 |
| 6416687500 | Francisco Franco | Fascist leader of the Spanish rebels during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Roosevelt decided after the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that he would apply an arms embargo to both sides of the civil war, the Loyalists and the rebels. | 18 | |
| 6416692400 | Cordell Hull | United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations; Congressman from Tennessee, he became the Secretary of State under FDR and served in that position longer than anyone in American history. He is often called the "Father of the United Nations." He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945. | 19 | |
| 6416695735 | Wendell L. Wilkie | In the 1940 election Republicans chose an anti-new deal internationalist who endorsed the draft and expressed sympathy for Britain | 20 |
