USA: FDR and International Relations

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Created on: 28-09-17 22:08

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The USA and international relations
- Isolationism
  - "The Europeans had only hired the goods that they had received during war" Coolidge
  - Americans refused to join the League of Nations but attended the meetings (Geneva) + supported the International Labour Organisation + League's work against slavery and drug trafficking
  - $100 million to Mediterranean countries + renegotiated term of German reparations ( Dawes 1924; Young 1929)
    - The Washington Naval Conference 1922 to reduce nation's naval capacity
      - Fewer warships - less likely to have another war
      - The UK weakened - Americans not able to be excluded from trade (as Germany 1914-17)
      - Japan's aims in Far East hampered - America having an 'open-door' trade policy with China
        1930 UK - London Naval Treaty - accepted parity with US
- Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 - nations agreeing to not go to war
- "Good Neighbour" - Hoover and FDR
  - Hoover rejected FDR's Corollary to Monroe Doctrine 1930 + refused to intervene in the Brazilian Revolution
    - FDR continued withdrawing from Haiti in 1934 and Nicaragua in 1933
- America didn't seem to seek leadership because of the political sensibilities and economical realities
  - 1938 - Mexicans nationalised half of American oil interests
- FDR: end of isolationism and WW2
  - 1937- 97% of Americans agreed to stay isolated
  - Japan + China = war 1937
    - Japanese military "accidently" attacked and sank the American gunboat Yangtze River
      - America couldn't go to war unless there was an invasion
  - The Neutrality Acts 1935-1937; banned FDR to send goods to one side of the war
    - 1939 Act allowed America supply allies
  - 1941 German U-boat attacked USS Greer - undeclared war
  - Japan bombed American Naval base in Hawaii - 2400 sailors killed, 180 destroyed planes, sank 8 battleships

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