CHAPTER 17 SUMMARY

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CHAPTER 17SUMMARY
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The people of Germany and Italy turned to
dictators who promised to redraw the boundaries
set at Versailles and to stop the spread of
Communism.
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There was a conflict between isolationism(avoid
foreign entanglements) and internationalism(assume
responsibility for events abroad).
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The Dawes Plan attempted to give financial
support to Germany, but the United States cut off
funds when the Depression hit.
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Some nations turned to dictators to solve their
problems. The dictators formed totalitarian
states which came to control all aspects of a
persons life. Individuals had few rights.
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The Japanese were aggressive in China(Manchuria)
in an effort to secure markets and raw materials.
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The Stinson Doctrine declared that the United
States would not recognize territory which Japan
took in Manchuria.
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In 1933 Roosevelt granted recognition to Russia
and sent an ambassador to Russia.
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The Neutrality Act of 1935 barred the sale of
arms to warring nations.
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The Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America
said that no state had the right to intervene in
the internal or external affairs of another. In
other words, FDR was contradicting the Roosevelt
Corollary.
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The French and British gave into(tried to
appease) Hitler. Neville Chamberlain, the British
PM, announced that he had gained peace in our
time.
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The German-Soviet Pact(also called the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) stated that neither side
would declare war on the other.
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Blitzkrieg was the strategy of sudden attack
and fast movementa lightning war.
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Winston Churchill inspired both British and
Americans by pledging to wage war, by sea, land
and air, with all our might and with all the
strength that God can give us.
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Lend-Lease was the program where the United
States would lend Great Britain whatever
supplies it needed to wage war on Germany.
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The Atlantic Charter was an agreement between
Roosevelt and Churchill to seek no territorial
gain and to maintain the right of peoples to
choose the form of government under which they
will live.
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An embargo against Japan brought a complete halt
to trade, stopping shipments of scrap metal, oil,
and aviation fuel to Japan.
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TORA! TORA! TORA!was the Japanese cry of attack,
when they made their surprise bombing of Pearl
Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, at 755 a.m.