Good Neighbor Policy: Let's be buddies with Latin America and make Hitler jealous. Just like highschool.
Ethiopia and Liberia: Italy lost Ethiopia colony at Battle of Adua.
Feb 1936: FDR signed 1936 Neutrality Act, mandatory arms embargo with warring nations and ban on loans to warring nations.
Spain: was neutral in WWII. 1935-36, Spanish civil war. Generalisimo Francisco Franco (supported by Hitler & Mussolini, sent $ to help defeat communism).
FDR vs Alf Landon 1936: FDR won 98% of votes. Oh yeah :)
Rome-Berlin Axis: official alliance. It happened.
Quarantine Speech: FDR, late 30s, US is neutral. Peaceful nations must come together to quarantine the agressive countries, like zombies....and monkies.
Panay Incident: Japan attacked US gunboat in China, killed 2 Americans, Japan apologized, we accepted. It was cool :P
Anschluss w/Austria: Anschluss=union. Austria became part of Germany by their own will.
Sudetenland/Czechoslovakia Germans, Hitler wanted that land. Munich Conference. Decide what would happen to Sudetenland. Chamberlain just GAVE it to him. But Churchill knew. He always knew.
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