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| Cordell Hull | Constructed the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act. Because he advocated a free trade policy he believed trade was a two-way street. |
| Joseph Stalin | Lead communist USSR; crafty and ruthless dicator; signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazis. |
| Benito Mussolini | Swaggering fascist, seized control of Italy in 1922, known as Il Duce |
| Adolf Hitler | Fanatic, seized control of Germany in 1933 by using the "big lie"; most dangerous of the three threats (Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini); In 1935 invandes Rhinland, going against the treaty of Versailles; 1939, Hitler has total control of Czechoslovakia; September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland; 1940 Hitler conquers Denmark and Norway, not long after France surrendered; June 1941 Hitler starts attacks on American ships. |
| Francisco Franco | Led an uprising in Madrid; got help from Hitler and Mussolini; took control of Spain. |
| Winston Churchill | Bulldog-jawed orator who was Prime Minister of Great Britain; urged British people to fight off the air bombings of their cities; led England during its most crucial hours. |
| Charles Lindbergh | Isolationist supporter; same individual who first flew across the Atlantic. |
| Wendell Willkie | Ran against FDR in 1940; ripped to shreds by FDR in the polls |
| Reciprocity | To want equivalent of items; in this chapter it is imports and exports (i.e. reciprocal trade) |
| Totalitarianism | Relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state or strict control of all aspects of life; in this chapter it represents someone's life based totally around war. |
| Isolationism | To isolate America from the rest of the world. |
| London Economic Conference | Summer of 1933; FDR supported the economic funding and bringing back worldwide stability; But towards the middle of the Conference FDR urged the delegates to handle more basic economic ills; this message destroyed the conference and the delegates came home with nothing. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | America moves to a hands-off policy and non-intervention in Latin America |
| Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act | Signed in 1934; tried to lift up American economy from depression using exports; also low-tariff rates were set up to allow more imorts; helped greatly in reviving of nation |
| Nazi Party | The party Hitler used to gain power in Germany. |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | Mussolini and Hitler become allies. |
| "Merchants of death" | Nickname given to munitions manufactures in America during WWII, 1935-1940 |
| Nye Committee | A senate committee headed up by Senator Nye; in 1934 were assigned to investigate the "blood business," munitions manufacturing; the logic was that the munitions manufactures caused WWI and if their profits were cut America could avoid WWII. |
| Neutrality Acts | of 1935, 1936, 1937; when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions automatically went up; could not sail on, sell or transport munitions, or make loans to belligerents. |
| Spanish Civil War | Uprising in Madrid led by Franco; got help from Hitler and Mussolini, weapons and munitions; finally choked the Spanish government; Franco became leader of Spain. |
| China Incident | Japan does a full dress invasion of China in 1937; FDR doesn't declare it a war, so Japan can still buy American supplies. |
| "Quarantine" speech | FDR's speech in the autumn of 1937; urged for economic embargoes of Italy and Japan. |
| Hitler-Stalin Non-agression pact | August 23, 1939; Germany and USSR will not fight each other; gave Hitler freedom to invade Poland without being stabbed in the back by the USSR. |
| "Cash and carry" | European countries allowed to buy munitions, but they have to pay cash to America and transport the items with their own ships. |
| "Phony war" | Time after Poland conquered; Europe was quiet until Hitler shifted army for knockout blow of France; ended when Hitler took out Denmark and Norway, not long after France surrendered. |
| Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies | Propaganda group which supported American intervention on British behalf; "Britain is fighting our fight" |
| America First Committee | Isolationist group which didn't want intervention at all costs; "England will fight to the last American"; "The Yanks are not coming"; could appeal by "all methods, short of war." |
| Lend-Lease | Would lend war equipment ot a country and it would be paid for like a lease until returned. |
| Atlantic Charter | Democracies signed as a goal for the New World after the war; very close to the 14 points; freedom of government, no territorial changes; ability to regain government destroyed by dictators. |
