155734684 | Reciprocal Trade Agreement | This act reversed traditional high-protective-tariff policies by allowing the president to negotiate lower tariffs with trade partners, without Senate approval. | |
155734685 | The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 | stipulated when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect. | |
155734686 | Appeasement | pleasing the dictators, turned out to be merely a surrender on the installment plan. | |
155734687 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | A pact that gave Hitler lands which he previously had but now demanded from Poland. | |
155734688 | Neutrality Act of 1939 | provided that henceforth the European democracies might buy American war materials, but only on a cash-and-carry basis | |
155734689 | Battle of Britain | the time in which Britain triumphed Germany's army and airforce and ended up ultimately turning the tide of war. | |
155734690 | Wendell L. Willkie | opponent to Roosevelt in the election of 1940. Ran under the Republican ticket. | |
155734691 | Lend-Lease Act | patriotically numbered 1776, entitled "An Act Further to Promote the Defense of the United States" it praised the administration as a device that would keep the nation out of war. | |
155734692 | Atlantic Charter | formally accepted by Roosevelt and Churchill, it outlined the aspirations of the democracies for a better world at war's end. |
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