We kept going over the powerpoint today.
Good Neighbor Policy-
- specifically with latin america
- they didn't like us too much
- we needed to be able to trade with them
- didn't want them to form alliance with Germany
- some ust wanted to be nicer out of the goodness of the hearts
Ethiopia/ Italy
- was independent
- Italy was defeated by them (Battle of Adua)
- very embarassing- white race beat by african american
- Mussolini invaded country to get revenge
- League of Nations cut off trade with Italy- other than oil
- mussolini took over ethiopia
- US- said we would not trade weapons or lend money to countries at war (neutrality acts)
Spain
- neutral in wwii
- civil war broke out
- musolini and hitler helped Generalisimo Francisco Franco defeat the communists
- gave experience to Italian and German troops
FDR vs. Alf Landon 1936
- FDR wins by a landslide
Rome -Berlin Axis
- official alliance between Hitler and Mussolini
- Axis- world rotate around them
Japan 1927
- takes over China for resources
- Rape of Nanking
Quarantine Speech
- FDR gives speech
- we were "neutral"
- said that the peaceful country needed to get together to stop the agressive countries and communist countries
Panay Incident
- Japan attacked american gun boat
- killed 2 americans
- Japan apologized
- first aggressive incident between us and Japan
- lead to Pearl Harbor
Anschluss with Austria
- Hitler born in Austria
- Austrians were ethnic germans
- asked to become part of germany
- Hitler annexed austria
- League of nations didn't think it was worth goin to war over
- Anschluss- union of germany and austria
Sudetenland- Munich Conference
- conference was held to figure out what was going to happen with the sudetenland area of czechoslovakia
- Germany wanted this land
- Italy, France, Great Britain and Germany were there
- Neville Chamberlain- Great Britain
- Hitler was given the area as long as hitler promised not to take anymore land over
- Hitler tells them what they want to hear and so he gets the land
- Policy of Appeasement
- gave hitler what he wants
- cant trust these crazy dictators
- do things behind our back and lie
- Obama tries to talk things out now
- sometimes have to go to war to prevent a bigger war
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