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Good Neighbor Policy

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FDR, American troops out of foreign nations (esp Latin America)

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Neutrality Act of 1935

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prohibited arms shipments and US travel on ships of belligerent nations

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Neutrality Act of 1936

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forbade loan and credit extension to belligerent nations

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Neutrality Act of 1937

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arms shipments not used in Spanish Civil War

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Neutrality Act of 1939

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“cash-and-carry” basis for EU dem buying American war materials

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Lend-Lease Agreement

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FDR authorized sale of surplus military equip while still being neutral

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Executive Order 9066

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allowed internment camps to be set up to exclude residents seen as threat

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Dixiecrats

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southern dem who seceded from party in 1948 in opp to its policy of extending civil rights

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Youngstown Sheet/Tube v. Sawyer

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sc decision that limited the power of the President

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Fair Deal (Truman)

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domestic reform policies, included civil rights legislation

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NSC 86

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top secret policy paper, presented to Truman, one of most important American policy statements in the Cold War

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Munich Agreement (1938)

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permitted Nazi Germany’s annexation of certain parts of Czechoslovakia

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Atlantic Charter

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Churchill & FDR, promote democracy and intentions for improvement post WW2

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Korematsu v US

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relocation of Japanese Americans during WW2, raised constitutionality of their internment as a wartime necessity

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Manhattan Project

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developed first nuclear weapons during WW2, led by US w support of Canada and UK

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War Productions Board

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supervised war production during WW2, FDR established it

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Zoot Suit Riots

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series of brutal attacks, aimed toward Mexican-American teens involved in gangs

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Yalta Conference

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Big 3 (FDR, Churchill, Stalin), dealt w/ postwar occupation and partition of Germany

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United Nations

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replaced the League of Nations, new international peacekeeping organization, US joined which signaled end of isolationism

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization- defended dem nations of Western EU by using “collective security”

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Warsaw Pact

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communist alliance that the USSR led against NATO

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Truman Doctrine

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speech about military and economic aid to nations “at risk” of falling

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“containment”/ George Kennan

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official US policy toward communism, idea that US must prevent spread of communism

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Marshall Plan

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American initiative to aid Western Europe

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union, they were later executed

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U-2 incident

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spy plan caught over the Soviet Union, embarrassed the US