Foreign Policies Between 1933 and 1945

By leahroberts

  • Good Neighbor Policy

    US adopted friendlier policy towards Latin America

  • London Economic Conference

    Sixty six nations got together in an attempt to stabilize the value of the national currencies. The conference fell apart when the United States refused to attend.

  • US recognizes the Soviet Union

    US officially recognized the sixteen-year Bolshevik regime in the Soviet Union

  • Tydings-McDuffie Act

    This act provided for the independence of the Philippines after a twelve-year period of economic and political tutelage. Main reason for this act was that if the Philippines was attacked the US did not want to be held responsible.

  • Nye Comittee created to investigate "blood business"

  • Johnson Debt Default Act

  • Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

    Roosevelt was now able to lower existing rates by as much as fifty percent provided that the other country involved was willing to respond with similar reductions. This was negotiated by Secretary of State Cordell Hull and it helped increase trade and allowed it to be more free.

  • Neutrality Act of 1935

  • Mussolini attacks Ethiopia

  • Neutrality Act of 1936

  • Spanish Civil War

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Neutrality Act of 1937

  • Japan invades China at Marco Polo Bridge

  • "Quarantine Speech"

  • Panay Incident

  • Hitler annexes Austria

  • Munich Conference

  • Hitler-Stalin Pact

  • Hitler invades Poland- Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Neutrality Act of 1939 "Cash-and-Carry"

  • Hitler invades all of Czechoslovakia

  • Fall of France

  • Havana Conference

  • Bases-for-destroyers Deal with Britain

  • Conscription Law passed

  • FDR re-elected for third term

  • ABC-1 Agreement

  • Lend-Leas Act

  • Robin Moor destroyed by American submarine

  • Hitler attacks Soviet Union

  • Atlantic Charter

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • Japanese-Americans moved to internment camps

  • Battle of Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

  • Battle of EL Alamein

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Casablanca Conference

  • Smith-Conally Anti-Strike Act

  • Italy surrenders

  • Tehran Conference

  • D-Day

  • Liberation of Paris

  • FDR elected for fourh term

  • Germany surrenders

  • Potsdam Conference

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders