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| 703567872 | London Conference | a group that had the goal of coming up with an international fix to the Great Depression, eventually not supported by the U.S. then dies out soon after. | |
| 703567873 | Tydings-McDuffie Act | act that claimed that the phillipines would be free from U.S. control after 12 years | |
| 703567874 | Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act | set up low tariff policies in order to better relations with foreign trade nations | |
| 703567875 | Rome-Berlin Axis | Germany and Italy's alliance during world war two | |
| 703567876 | triparpite pact | the alliance between germany, italy, and japan | |
| 703567877 | Johnson debt default act | states that foreign nations already in debt to the United States can not borrow more money | |
| 703567878 | Nye Committee | studied and revealed the truth that munitions producers were only helping to start wars for their own profit | |
| 703567879 | Neutrality Acts | triggered once foreign war is declared, these acts stated that Americans could not sail on a belligerent (nation-at-war) ship, sell/haul munitions, or make loans to belligerents | |
| 703567880 | belligerent | nation at war | |
| 703567881 | Spanish civil war | Conflict between the facist government under Fransisco Franco and the republican democratic government. Franco Recieved aid from Germany and Italy and eventually won the war. | |
| 703567882 | Fransisco Franco | facist leader of Spain during world war 2 | |
| 703567883 | Quarantine Speech | morally siding against aggresors such as Japan and italy. A step away from isolationism | |
| 703567884 | U.S.S. Panay | American ship that was sunk by the Japanese as a test to see how the US would act. Japan apologized and paid an indemnity, however this opened up the US to a more serious attack | |
| 703567885 | Sudetenland | land in Czechoslovakia most inhabited by Germans. First land claimed by hitler before world war 2 | |
| 703567886 | Appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability | |
| 703567887 | Munich Conference | 1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further. | |
| 703567888 | Russo-German Nonaggression Pact | Promise between Hitler and Stalin that ensured no fighting between the two. Was NOT an alliance treaty. Nazis hated communists. | |
| 703567889 | cash and carry | under the neutrality act of 1939, this was the U.S.'s way of trying to support the allied powers. offering supplies to them as long as they paid with cash and transported it out of the us by themselves | |
| 703567890 | phony war | the time after Hitler took Poland, and was shifting his troops over to the western front. during this time, russia annexed finland | |
| 703567891 | Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces | |
| 703567892 | Battle of Britain | a Battle in which the Royal Air Force halted the ever-advancing Nazi forces. showed a weakining of the nazi army | |
| 703567893 | America First Committee | a group that arose arguing continued isolationism after france and britain got involved in war. wanted to focus on work in the US primarily | |
| 703567894 | Committee to defend the allies | group that arose rallying for the intervention of the U.S. to aid the Allied forces | |
| 703567895 | Destroyer Deal | America transferred 50 old destroyers from WWI days to Britain, shows the U.S. on the brink of stepping out of isolationism | |
| 703567896 | Wendell L. Willkie | Republican nominee that ran against FDR in the election of 1940 | |
| 703567897 | Lend-Lease Bill | Marking an almost a complete abandonment of isolationism, this bill had sent about 50 billion dolars worth of arms and material to the allies. | |
| 703567898 | Atlantic Charter | During the Atlantic Conference in Tehran. the big three (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) established post war goals, much like wilsons 14 pts in ww1 | |
| 703567899 | attack on pearl harbor | a surprising attack committed by Japan due to the U.S. embargo of oil, brought the U.S. into WW2 | |
| 703567900 | Labor disputes act | passed in reaction to the disconcerting number of strikes in essential war industries. allowed government takeover of businesses if deemed essential to national security | |
| 703567901 | Selective Training and Service act of 1940 | created the first peacetime war draft in U.S history |
