FDR & US FOREIGN
POLICY 1933-1945: THE ROAD TO 
WARNew 
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I. Foreign Policy of New Deal-Nationalism & Isolationism

	A. European-Asian Issues

		1. London Economic Conference-US to remain aloof

		2. Johnson Debt Default Act

		3. Rise of Fascism in Italy, Germany, and Japan

			a. Manchuria and Simpson Doctrine

			b. Philippeans-US Achilles Heel

	B. Latin American Policy

		1. Cuba-Repeal Platt Amendment

		2. Good Neighbor Policy

	C. US response to increase militancy in Europe and Asia 		1. Nye
Committee and Neutrality Legislation

			a. Merchants of Death

			b. 1935 Neutrality Act-No arms, no loans, no rides

			c. 1937 "Cash and Carry" non military goods only

		2. Italian invasion of Ethiopia

		3. Spanish Civil War-US won't sell

		4. Panay incident

		5. Appeasement in Munich

			a. Germany takes Sudetenland 

			b. Then Czechoslovakia

		6. Germany annexes Austria

		7. Russo-Germany Pact

		8. Germany demands Poland-September, 1939

			a. Britain and France declare war

			b. US declares Neutrality but passed Cash for mil

		9. Phony War

		10. Blitzkrieg

		11. Fall of France

	D. American reaction to Foreign threat in 1940

		1. Battle of Britain

		2. Internal division (Am First) but Congress
oks $37 B 

			a. FDR responds with Destroyer-Base Deal

			b. Convoy help

II. Election of 1940

	A. Republicans run Wendell Willkie

	B. Democratic convention in disarray

		1. FDR "I chose not to run."

		2. "We want Roosevelt"

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