USA: FDR and International Relations
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- Created on: 28-09-17 22:08
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- The USA and international relations
- Isolationism
- "The Europeans had only hired the goods that they had received during war" Coolidge
- Americans refused to join the League of Nations but attended the meetings (Geneva) + supported the International Labour Organisation + League's work against slavery and drug trafficking
- $100 million to Mediterranean countries + renegotiated term of German reparations ( Dawes 1924; Young 1929)
- The Washington Naval Conference 1922 to reduce nation's naval capacity
- Fewer warships - less likely to have another war
- The UK weakened - Americans not able to be excluded from trade (as Germany 1914-17)
- Japan's aims in Far East hampered - America having an 'open-door' trade policy with China
- 1930 UK - London Naval Treaty - accepted parity with US
- The Washington Naval Conference 1922 to reduce nation's naval capacity
- Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 - nations agreeing to not go to war
- "Good Neighbour" - Hoover and FDR
- Hoover rejected FDR's Corollary to Monroe Doctrine 1930 + refused to intervene in the Brazilian Revolution
- FDR continued withdrawing from Haiti in 1934 and Nicaragua in 1933
- Hoover rejected FDR's Corollary to Monroe Doctrine 1930 + refused to intervene in the Brazilian Revolution
- America didn't seem to seek leadership because of the political sensibilities and economical realities
- 1938 - Mexicans nationalised half of American oil interests
- FDR: end of isolationism and WW2
- 1937- 97% of Americans agreed to stay isolated
- Japan + China = war 1937
- Japanese military "accidently" attacked and sank the American gunboat Yangtze River
- America couldn't go to war unless there was an invasion
- Japanese military "accidently" attacked and sank the American gunboat Yangtze River
- The Neutrality Acts 1935-1937; banned FDR to send goods to one side of the war
- 1939 Act allowed America supply allies
- 1941 German U-boat attacked USS Greer - undeclared war
- Japan bombed American Naval base in Hawaii - 2400 sailors killed, 180 destroyed planes, sank 8 battleships
- Isolationism
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