1) What was the London Conference and what were it’s ramifications? Pg 800
- The London Conference was a meeting with 66 nations with an intent to hopefully develop a worldwide solution to the Great Depression but then FDR withdrew from the agreement on trying to stabilize currencies. The conference accomplished nothing and strengthened America's isolationism
- These Acts stated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war, certain restrictions would automatically go into effect: no American could legally sail on a belligerent ship or sell or transport munitions to a belligerent or make loans to a belligerent.
- During the Spanish Civil War, Spanish rebels led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco rose up against the republican government
- Committee to Defend by Aiding the Allies supported helping Britain and America's First Committee was for isolationism. These were examples of propaganda.
- It was better if a president that had experience be the President rather than some new guy who had no experience.
- When FDR sent a limitless supply of weapons to the Allies rather than the armies.
- The Atlantic Charter was the result of the Atlantic Conference that was held in August 1941 when Winston Churchill and FDR met and the result of this Conference was the eight-point Atlantic Charter that suggested Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points and supported the self-determinism.
- Everyone became skeptical of immigrants. People started to question the immigrants' loyalty to the country and eventually the Japanese-Americans had to be put in camps.
- It gave the industry a huge boom because the massive military orders created jobs and production for people. The War Production Board halted manufacture of nonessential items such as passenger cars.