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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.
Compare US foreign policy after WWI and the Good Neighbor Policy.
Post-WWI: Limited engagement. Good Neighbor: Non-intervention in Latin America.
Compare the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the League of Nations.
Both aimed for peace, but lacked enforcement power.
Compare the 'America First' movement to pre-WWI isolationism.
Both advocated for staying out of foreign conflicts.
Compare the Neutrality Acts and the Lend-Lease Act.
Neutrality Acts: Aimed to keep US out of war. Lend-Lease: Aided Allies.
Compare US involvement in WWI and WWII before official entry.
WWI: Initial neutrality, then loans and supplies. WWII: Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease.
Compare the goals of the Washington Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Washington Conference: Limit naval arms. Kellogg-Briand Pact: Outlaw war.
Compare the American Bund with other extremist groups in US history.
Similar to nativist groups in promoting discriminatory ideologies.
Compare the US response to Japanese expansion and German expansion.
Initially neutral, then economic pressure, then military aid to victims.
Compare the causes of US entry into WWI and WWII.
WWI: Unrestricted submarine warfare. WWII: Pearl Harbor.
Compare totalitarianism in Germany and the USSR.
Both involved state control, but differed in ideology (fascism vs. communism).
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.