FOREGIN POLICY 1930 - LIANNE WELLER

Hoover /Stimson diplomacy Japan:
Invades Manchuria; ends relations with League of Nations
Interventionist sec. of state Stimson wants embargo/isolationist Hoover disagrees.
1932 us would not recognize new territorial acquisitions.
League of nations is useless during WWII

Good neighbor policy; economic imperialism w slowing economy. Alters Roosevelt corollary
Troops out of S. America. Treat southern neighbors more fairly

London economic conference; summer 1933 page 800
Revealed how thoroughly Roosevelt’s early foreign policy was subordinated to his strategy for domestic economic recovery..

Collapse of London conference strengthened the global trend toward extreme nationalism making international cooperation even more difficult and dangerous decade for 1930’s

Neutrality acts; against war
1935 1936 1937 could not sell or transport to belligerents over seas. USA

Appeasement; Germany ignore treaty of Versailles Austria and Czech – Munich conference

Rearmament; cash and carry policy first to stop Germany blitzkrieg
Lend lease
Arsenal of democracy; sends guns not sons lend arms and then they can return later to America’s rearmament.

Atlantic charter; 1941 page 817
Surrender of Soviet Union. Churchill and Roosevelt meet for first time.
How to make world safer and better
Discussion of common issues eight point Atlantic charter.
Alike the fourteen points.
Eight points of Atlantic Charter;
Outlined the aspirations of the democracies for a better world at war’s end
No territorial changes contrary to wishes of the inhabitants.
Right of people to chose their own form of government and regain governments abolished by dictators.
Declared disarmament and peace of security

Pearl harbor; see tons of notes. Too long to fit on. Page 881-820