HIST 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Platt Amendment, Arson, Staling
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The united states in a menacing world, 1933 1939. Extended the internationalist approach of his predecessor in latin america. Good nieghbor policy - any nation"s right to intervene in the affairs of another. Roosevelt withdrew the last u. s. troops from haiti and the dominican republic and terminated the platt. The rise of aggressive states in europe and asia. Adolf hitler - national socialist party in germany that gained broad support as a result of the depression, fear of communism, and resentment of the harsh versailles treaty. Merchants of death - tricked the u. s. into war for financial gain. 1937 poll showed that 70% of the people believed that the u. s. should have stayed out of the war. Measures outlawed arms sales and loans to nations at war and forbade americans to travel on the ships of belligerent powers. Hitler and stalin reached a pact that their nations would night fight one another and that they would divide.
