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| 702122710 | London Economic Conference (1933) | 66 nations tried to attack the global depression and stabilize currencies. FDR withdrew USA from the conference, causing it to fail. | |
| 702122711 | Good Neighbor Policy | FDR renounced the Roosevelt Corollary and armed intervention in Latin America. | |
| 702122712 | Mexican Oil Expropriation (1938) | Mexico seized US oil properties, testing the Good Neighbor policy, but FDR negotiated, winning reputation. | |
| 702122713 | Cordell Hull | FDR's Secretary of State. Helped pass the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. | |
| 702122714 | Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (1934) | Gave FDR the power to lower tariffs if other nations did the same. | |
| 702122715 | Rome-Berlin Axis | Hitler and Mussolini allied. | |
| 702122716 | Ethiopian Invasion | Mussolini's African campaign. | |
| 702122717 | Isolationism | Americans did not want to trouble themselves with foreign events. | |
| 702122718 | Nye Committee | Senator Nye investigated and proclaimed that WWI was caused by bankers and arms manufacturers. | |
| 702122719 | Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 | Proclaimed that no American could sail on a belligerent ship, sell munitions to a belligerent, or make loans to belligerents. | |
| 702122720 | Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) | Franco asked Hitler and Mussolini to help defeat the Loyalists. Democracies refused to help the Loyalists. | |
| 702122721 | Japanese Invasion of China (1937) | Japan attacks China and FDR calls for a quarantine but Americans don't want it. | |
| 702122722 | FDR's Quarantine Speech (1937) | FDR called for a quarantine on Japan and Italy but it was protested by isolationists. | |
| 702122723 | Panay Incident (1937) | Japan sunk an American gunboat but quickly apologized. | |
| 702122724 | Rhineland Invasion (1935) | Hitler marched troops into the demilitarized zone, breaking the Treaty of Versailles. | |
| 702122725 | Holocaust | Hitler killed about 6 million Jews. | |
| 702122726 | Austrian Annexation | Hitler combined Germany with Austria in Anschluss. | |
| 702122727 | Sudetenland | Hitler demanded this territory as his last territorial claim. | |
| 702122728 | Munich Conference | Democracies betray Czechoslovakia to Hitler. | |
| 702122729 | Appeasement | Democracies gave Hitler what he wanted. | |
| 702122730 | Hitler-Stalin Non-Aggression Treaty | Hitler and Stalin promised not to attack each other. | |
| 702122731 | Cash and Carry Neutrality Act | US sold war materials to European Democracies on a cash and carry basis. | |
| 702122732 | Phony War | A silence between the invasion of Poland and the resumption of war. | |
| 702122733 | Invasion of France (1940) | Hitler and Mussolini steamrolled France. | |
| 702122734 | Winston Churchill | Gave the inspiration to fight off air bombings of London. | |
| 702122735 | Battle of Britain | The Royal Air Force held off the Luftwaffe. | |
| 702122736 | Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies | Supported Aid to Britain. "Britain is Fighting Our Fight" "All Methods Short of War" | |
| 702122737 | The America First Committee | Believed America should concentrate on the strength it had to defend its own shores. | |
| 702122738 | Destroyer Deal | Britain received 50 US destroyers and US got 8 defensive base sites for 99 years. | |
| 702122739 | Wendell Wilkie | Republican Candidate who was really a Democrat. He agreed with FDR's ideas, but not his methods. He had little political experience. | |
| 702122740 | Lend-Lease Act | US gave Britain weapons and arms and Britain returned them after the war. It was widely debated everywhere. It was an economic declaration of war. | |
| 702122741 | Invasion of USSR | Hitler turned on Stalin to seize the Soviet supplies to defeat Britain. | |
| 702122742 | Atlantic Charter | An agreement between FDR and Churchill to give self-determination, disarmament and a better League. | |
| 702122743 | Greer, Kearney and Reuben James | US ships attacked by Hitler's U-boats. | |
| 702122744 | Japanese Embargo | US placed an embargo on Japan, inciting the bombing on Pearl Harbor. |
