Chapter 35 Outline Catherine Snyder The London Conference London Economic Conference: 66 nation conference in 1933, worked to organize global attack on worldwide depression Exchange-rate stabilization: was essential to revival of world trade Freedom for (from?) the Filipinos and Recognition for the Russians Philippine sugar competition Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934: provided for the independence of the Philippines after 12 years of economic and political tutelage, gave up army bases but not naval bases Formally recognized the Soviet Union in 1933: motivated by trade Becoming a Good Neighbor 7th Pan-American Conference: US formally endorsed nonintervention, ended up pulling back from Haiti and Cuba (released from Platt Amendment), let up in Panama