POLI1061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Henry L. Stimson, Antisemitism, Arms Control
2 May 2018
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Replacing the League
● Foreign affairs under Harding
○ decided not to join League of Nations
○ Sec. of State Charles Hughes negotiates separate peace treaties
○ aimed to receive benefits from Versailles w/out responsability
○ tried to find different ways to prevent war
○ Washington Conference of 1921
■ trying to prevent naval armaments race between US Britain and Japan
■ wanted to scrap 2 mil tons of shipping
■ Five-Power Pact of February 1922 established limits for naval
equipment
■ Nine-Power Pact continues Open Door in China
■ Four-Power Pact respect other pacific territories
■ Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 ended conference by outlawing war as
part of national policy?
Beginning of Foreign Conflict
★ Hitler comes to power after losing the 1932 election
★ Aryans are racially superior, anti semitism
★ Rise of Soviet Union and Chiang Kai-Shek trying to expand to manchuria unnerves our
friends in Japan who aren’t actually our friends because Pearl Harbor
○ Japanese Military coup 1931 invades north Manchuria
○ Sec of State Henry Stimson hoped Japan would halt invasion
○ Stimson warns Japan but has no backbone couldn’t even sanction the invaders
○ refused to recognize new Japanese territories
US and the USSR
❏ US tries to expand foreign trade hates USSR less but not like a lot less
❏ US didn’t really recognize their govt
❏ USSR wanted help protecting themselves from Japan
❏ foreign minister Litvinov decides to protect US citizens in USSR and stop propaganda
in US in trade for recognition
❏ still not friends
Good Neighbor Policy
● relations with latin america
● increased trade by over 100%
● Hoover pulled out FDR went right back in
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Document Summary
Decided not to join league of nations. Sec. of state charles hughes negotiates separate peace treaties. Aimed to receive benefits from versailles w/out responsability. Washington conference of 1921 tried to find different ways to prevent war trying to prevent naval armaments race between us britain and japan. Wanted to scrap 2 mil tons of shipping. Five-power pact of february 1922 established limits for naval equipment. Nine-power pact continues open door in china. Hitler comes to power after losing the 1932 election. Rise of soviet union and chiang kai-shek trying to expand to manchuria unnerves our friends in japan who aren"t actually our friends because pearl harbor. Japanese military coup 1931 invades north manchuria. Sec of state henry stimson hoped japan would halt invasion. Stimson warns japan but has no backbone couldn"t even sanction the invaders. Us tries to expand foreign trade hates ussr less but not like a lot less. Ussr wanted help protecting themselves from japan.
