Chapter 34 Flashcards

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.