Good Neighbor Policy: treat Latin America with more respect for trade, problems with Hitler=get better relations.
Ethiopia and Liberia: only two free countries. Italy lost Ethiopia colony at Battle of Adua. Italy sent forces to Ethiopia, Italy declared agressor by LofN (economic sanctions). Revenge. Mid 30s. May 5th, Ethiopia made part of Italy.
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). Gave experience to Hitler/Mussolini's troops.
FDR vs Alf Landon 1936: FDR won 98% of votes.
Rome-Berlin Axis: official alliance.
Quarantine Speech: FDR, late 30s, US is neutral. Peaceful nations must come together to quarantine the agressive countries. Started picking sides.
Panay Incident: Japan attacked US gunboat in China, killed 2 Americans, Japan apologized, we accepted. First incident from Japan. Late 30s.
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. Germany, GB (Neville Chamberlain), Italy (Mussolini), & France (Edouard Daladier). They didn't want Hitler to take any more land. Policy of Appeasement.
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