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What were the causes and effects of the Washington Conference?
Cause: Naval arms race. Effect: Limited battleship ratios.
What were the causes and effects of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Cause: Desire to avoid war. Effect: Ineffective promise of peace.
What were the causes and effects of the Dawes Plan?
Cause: German reparations. Effect: Circular flow of money until the Great Depression.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Depression?
Cause: Stock market crash. Effect: Collapse of Dawes Plan, rise of extremism.
What were the causes and effects of the Neutrality Acts?
Cause: Desire to avoid WWI-like entanglements. Effect: Limited ability to aid allies.
What were the causes and effects of the Lend-Lease Act?
Cause: Need to support Allies. Effect: US moved away from neutrality.
What were the causes and effects of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Cause: Japanese expansion. Effect: US entry into WWII.
What were the causes and effects of the Good Neighbor Policy?
Cause: Desire for hemispheric unity. Effect: Improved relations with Latin America.
What were the causes and effects of the rise of totalitarian regimes?
Cause: Economic hardship, nationalism. Effect: Expansion, WWII.
What were the causes and effects of the Selective Service Act (1940)?
Cause: Increasing likelihood of US involvement in WWII. Effect: First peacetime draft.
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.
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.