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US FOREIGN POLICES AND
WWII
United States
KEY WORDS
Isolationism
• A governmental
policy of not taking
part in economic
and political
alliances or
relations with other
countries
Neutrality
• The policy of not
taking a side in a
war that other
nations are fighting
Neutrality act of 1935
POLICIES
Good Neighbor Policy
• non-intervention and
non-interference in the
domestic affairs of Latin
America.
• It also reinforced the idea
that the US would be a
“good neighbor” and
engage in reciprocal
exchanges with Latin
America countries.
• Imposed a general
embargo on trading in
arms and war materials
with all parties in a war.
• It also declared that
American citizens
travelling on warring ships
travelled at their own risk.
The act was set to expire
after six months.
Neutrality Act 1936
• renewed the provisions of
the 1935 act for another 14
months.
POLICIES
Neutrality act 1937
• included the provisions of the
earlier acts, this time without
expiration date, and extended
• However, this act did not
them to cover civil wars as
cover "civil wars," such as
the one in Spain, nor did it
well.
• It also forbade all loans or
credits to belligerents.
cover materials such as
trucks and oil
• Furthermore, U.S. ships were
prohibited from transporting
any passengers or articles to
belligerents, and U.S. citizens
were forbidden from traveling
on ships of belligerent
nations.
IMPORTANT FOREIGN EVENTS
Munich Conference 1938
• AKA The Munich Pact
Lend-Lease Act
• A legislation passed by
congress in 1941
• Agreement in which Britain
and France appeased Hitler
adopting a plan to lend
by agreeing that Germany
arms to Britain
could annex the
Sudetenland,
• A German-Speaking region of
Czechoslovakia
ATLANTIC CHARTER
• Defined the Allied goals
for the post-war world.
• It was drafted by the
leaders of Britain
and the US
• The Charter stated
the ideal goals of
the war:
1.
No territorial aggrandizement
2.
No territorial changes made
against the wishes of the people
3.
Restoration of self-government to
those deprived of it;
4.
Equal access to raw materials;
5.
Reduction of trade restrictions
6.
Global cooperation to secure
better economic and social
conditions for all freedom from
fear and want; freedom of the
seas; and abandonment of the use
of force, as well as disarmament
of aggressor nations.
Potsdam Conference
CONFERENCES
Yalta Conference Feb. 1945
• Allied Leaders
• FDR, Churchill, Stalin
• Plan the future of
post WWII Europe
July- August 1945
• Allied Leaders
• Truman, Churchill,
Atlee, Stalin
• Finalize post WWII
plans for Europe