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Compare US foreign policy after WWI and the Good Neighbor Policy.
Post-WWI: Limited engagement. Good Neighbor: Non-intervention in Latin America.
Compare the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the League of Nations.
Both aimed for peace, but lacked enforcement power.
Compare the 'America First' movement to pre-WWI isolationism.
Both advocated for staying out of foreign conflicts.
Compare the Neutrality Acts and the Lend-Lease Act.
Neutrality Acts: Aimed to keep US out of war. Lend-Lease: Aided Allies.
Compare US involvement in WWI and WWII before official entry.
WWI: Initial neutrality, then loans and supplies. WWII: Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease.
Compare the goals of the Washington Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Washington Conference: Limit naval arms. Kellogg-Briand Pact: Outlaw war.
Compare the American Bund with other extremist groups in US history.
Similar to nativist groups in promoting discriminatory ideologies.
Compare the US response to Japanese expansion and German expansion.
Initially neutral, then economic pressure, then military aid to victims.
Compare the causes of US entry into WWI and WWII.
WWI: Unrestricted submarine warfare. WWII: Pearl Harbor.
Compare totalitarianism in Germany and the USSR.
Both involved state control, but differed in ideology (fascism vs. communism).
What is 'Return to Normalcy'?
Harding's slogan; less European entanglement.
Define 'Totalitarianism'.
State control of all aspects of life.
What is 'Isolationism'?
Policy of staying out of international conflicts.
Define 'Neutrality' in the 1930s.
US policy to avoid involvement in foreign wars.
What was the 'Good Neighbor Policy'?
Non-intervention in Latin American affairs.
What is 'Cash and Carry'?
UK buys US war materials, pays cash, transports them.
Define 'Lend-Lease Act'.
US lends money/materials to Allies.
What was the 'America First' movement?
Advocated for US isolationism before WWII.
What is meant by 'Day of Infamy'?
FDR's description of Pearl Harbor attack.
What was the American Bund?
Pro-Nazi group in the United States.
Who was President Harding?
Advocated 'Return to Normalcy' after WWI.
Who was Hitler?
Totalitarian leader of Germany.
Who was Mussolini?
Totalitarian leader of Italy.
Who was Stalin?
Totalitarian leader of the USSR.
Who was Tojo?
Totalitarian leader of Japan.
Who was FDR?
President during the Great Depression and WWII, initiated the Good Neighbor Policy.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Leader of the 'America First' movement.
Who was Fritz Julius Kuhn?
Leader of the American Bund.