Chapter 25 - The Global Crisis: 1921-1941

U.S.

On December 12, 1937, Japanese aviators bombed and sank the ________ gunboat Panay as it sailed the Yangtze River in China.

international economic agreements

The first years of the Roosevelt administration marked not only the death of Hoovers hopes for ________ but the end of any hopes for world peace through treaties and disarmament as well.

Washington Conference

The ________ began the New Era effort to protect the peace (and the international economic interests of the United States) without accepting active international duties.

Hitler

On September 29, ________ met with the leaders of France and Great Britain at Munich in an effort to resolve the crisis.

Latin America

________ was one of the most important targets of the new policy of trade reciprocity.

Pearl Harbor

At 7: 55 A.M. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a wave of Japanese bombers- taking off from aircraft carriers hundreds of miles away- attacked the United States naval base at ________.

Indochina

In July 1941, imperial troops moved into ________ and seized the capital of Vietnam, a colony of France.

financial crisis

The world ________ that began in 1929 and greatly intensified after 1931 was not only creating economic distress; it was also producing a dangerous nationalism that threatened the weak international agreements established during the previous decade.

Roosevelt

________ approved the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934, authorizing the administration to negotiate treaties lowering tariffs by as much as 50 percent in return for reciprocal reductions by other nations.

Neutrality Acts

The 1935 act, and the ________ of 1936 and 1937 that followed, was designed to prevent a recurrence of the events that many Americans now believed had pressured the United States into World War I.

American citizens

The 1935 law established a mandatory arms embargo against both victim and aggressor in any military conflict and empowered the president to warn ________ that they might travel on the ships of warring nations only at their own risk.

Dawes

________ won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, but in fact the Dawes Plan did little to solve the problems it addressed.

Charles G Dawes

In 1924 ________, an American banker, and diplomat, negotiated an agreement under which American banks would provide enormous loans to the Germans, enabling them to meet their reparations payments; in return, Britain and France would agree to reduce the amount of those payments.

Latin America

In ________, Hoover worked studiously to repair some of the damage created by earlier American policies.