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Kayla Furtado
Mr. Kann
Period 2
World War II: Chapter 25
★ United States Diplomacy (Pg. 518)
○ Almost all nations agreeing to the
■ Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
● Pledge not to use military force for aggressive ends
○ United States
■ Depression
● Overshadowed concerns
○ About a second World War
■ Which did occur
★ Japanese Aggression in Manchuria (Pg. 519)
○ 1930’s
■ Japan had the greatest threat to the World Peace
● Open Door Policy
● Covenant of the League of Nations
○ Japanese troops marched into Manchuria
■ In Sept 1931
● Renamed the territory (Manchukuo)
○ And established a puppet
government
★ Franklin Roosevelt’s Policy (Pg. 520)
○ First term
■ Roosevelt concentrated on dealing with the economic crisis
○ Good-Neighbor Policy (Pg. 520)
■ 1. Intervention in support of dollar diplomacy no longer made
economic sense, since United States business during the depression
lacked the resources to invest in foreign operations
■ 2. ​The rise of militarist regimes in Germany and Italy prompted
Roosevelt to seek Latin America’s cooperation in defending the
region from potential danger
● Pan-American conferences
○ Pledged never again to intervene in the internal affairs
of a Latin American country
Economic Diplomacy: London Economic Conference (1933)
○ Conference then ended without reaching any agreement
★ Recognition of the Soviet Union
○ Roosevelt Promptly changed this policy by granting recognition in 1933
■ His reason was to increase the United States trade and to increase the
economy
★ Reciprocal Trade Agreements
○ Roosevelt favored lower tariffs
■ But, wanted to increase the international trade
● Congress enacted a plan
○ Reduce the United States tariffs up to 50% for nations
○ Italy Fascist
■ Attracted dissatisfied
● War veterans
● Nationalists
● Rising communism
★ American Isolationists (Pg. 522)
○ They wanted to make sure the United States would never again be drawn
into a foreign war
○ Neutrality Acts:
■ 1935
● Authorized the president to prohibit all arms shipments and to
forbid United States citizens to travel on the ships of
belligerent nations
■ 1936
● Forbade the extension of loans and credits to belligerent
■ 1937
● Forbade the shipment of arms to the opposing sides in the
Civil War in Spain
★ Spanish Civil War
○ Outbreak of
■ The Civil War
● In Spain of 1936
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○ Viewed in Europe and the United States
■ It was an ideological struggle
● Between Fascism
○ Led by General Francisco Franco
■ Republican
Changing United States Policy (Pg. 525)
○ War had begun
■ “Cash and Carry”
● British Navy controlled the seas
○ Roosevelt persuaded congress in 1939
■ Selective Service Act (1940)
● Congress enacted a law of military service
The Election of 1940
○ President Roosevelt was the first to break the two-term tradition
○ Wendell Willkie
■ Veteran Politicians
● Wanted to challenge the president
Lend-Lease Act
○ Ending the Cash-and-Carry requirement of the
■ Neutrality Act
● Which also permitted the British to obtain all
○ The United States arms it needed on credit
○ Wages, prices, and rationing
■ Office of Price Administration
● It regulated almost every aspect of civilians
○ By freezing prices
○ Wages
○ And rents and rationing such commodities
■ Such as meat
■ Sugar
■ Gasoline
■ And Auto Tires
The War’s Impact On Society (Pg. 530)
○ African Americans
■ Attracted jobs in the
● North and West
○ Over 1.5 million African Americans left the South
○ Mexican Americans
■ Worked in defense industries
● 300,000 served in the military
○ 1942
■ There was an agreement with Mexico
● Which allowed Mexican
○ Farmworkers “braceros”
○ Women
■ Served in the military
Noris Video # 25
● Organization
○ In the United States
■ Growth of Cities
● Skyscrapers were built in Chicago in 1885
○ Military conscription
■ Required to join the Military
● There was freedom from religious persecution
● Jane Addams
○ Positive figure
■ She had the most famous settlement house
● That was called “Whole House”
○ It was located in Chicago
■ Mostly women and children
● Also immigrants could get food,
clothing, shelter, and help to adjust to
society
○ Immigrants
■ There were high rates of child birth
● The American Protective​ ​Association (APA)
○ Voting against Catholics will c is for a long​ ​time until nineteen sixty when
the first president first Catholic president is elected
● Andrew Kearney
○ Social Gospel
■ A church movement
● To improve conditions affecting society
● National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Morrill Act of
1862/1887)
○ An important act that was passed by Congress
■ During the Civil War
● It provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural
experiment stations
Noris Video # 26
★ Dogs Severity Act
○ Changes the the identity of Native Americans it changes their way of
life
■ And it dissolves many tribes as legal entities in other words Native
Americans were not expected to be members of tribes anymore
● It wiped out tribal ownership of land
○ and instead it gave up individual Indian​ ​family heads
with a hundred sixty free acrest
★ Sherman Silver Purchase Act
○ It impacted the future elections
■ That could increase the supply of silver
● So there was just the use of gold in the
○ Federal Government
■ Would buy silver
★ Silver
○ Inflated the value of money
■ graduates d an income of tax
● Meaning that the more money you make the more you should
pay in the government
○ Then there was the 16th amendment
○ Stock Market Crash
■ Overproduction
● The government repealed the
○ Sherman Silver Act
■ So no more buying