US Foreign Policy 1937-1941

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  1. 3. The Selective Training and Service Act created 16.4 million of these
  2. 9. This policy was introduced by the US and refers to the 1899 agreement allowing multiple imperial powers access to China.
  3. 10. One of Roosevelt's four freedoms
  4. 12. These naval talks were hosted by the US in 1921-22 and aimed to limit the growth of the Japanese Navy by ending the arms race
  5. 13. The Neutrality Act of 1935 placed an embargo on _____ shipments to any nation in a state of war
  6. 14. President Roosevelt tried to change the isolationist sentiment of the American public with this speech in 1937
  7. 20. A series of Acts designed to keep America out of conflict. These were created in response to an investigation into American involvement in WWI
  8. 21. American President between 1933-1945
  9. 22. The name given to legislation that allowed the American President to lease or lend arms and equipment to a nation whose survival was vital to the interests of America
  10. 23. The Neutrality Act was extended in 1937 to restrict "belligerents" by allowing them to purchase non-military goods with cash and transport the goods themselves
  11. 27. A pact signed by America, Britain, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Talks in which each agreed to recognise the others' interests in the Pacific
  12. 28. The US withdrew the arms embargo with regards to Britain and France when they declared war on this country
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  1. 1. This US gunboat was accidentally sunk by a Japanese attack on the Yangtze River in China
  2. 2. One of the key provisions of the Atlantic Charter, "____ first"
  3. 4. This 1924 Act saw the US government place a ban on Japanese immigration
  4. 5. The US Naval Expansion Act of 1938 authorised the building of a ____ Ocean Navy
  5. 6. In 1936 the Neutrality Act was extended to include these on the banned list
  6. 7. The Great ____ of the early 1930s meant that the American public were focussed on domestic issues rather than overseas concerns
  7. 8. A pact which restricted the naval tonnage of Japan at a ratio of 5:5:3
  8. 11. US economic interests resulted in a contradictory foreign policy consisting of isolationist and _____ measures
  9. 15. In 1940 Roosevelt traded 50 American destroyers in return for British ___
  10. 16. The 'Cash and Carry' Act meant that the US avoided exposing itself to _____ submarine warfare
  11. 17. The foreign policy which saw America isolate itself from world affairs
  12. 18. The Japanese bombed this American naval base on December 7 1941
  13. 19. A charter developed secretly by Roosevelt and Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland. This charter provided the basis for the establishment of the United Nations
  14. 24. An invention of the National Research Defence Committee
  15. 25. In the two years before the US entered WWII, its defence industries were ___
  16. 26. Owing to the amount of US war production, America was referred to as the "great ____ of democracy"