US FOREIGN POLICES AND
WWII
United States
KEY WORDS
Isolationism
Neutrality
• A governmental
policy of not taking
part in economic
and political
alliances or
relations with other
countries
• The policy of not
taking side in war
between other
nations
POLICIES
Good Neighbor Policy
• non-intervention and
non-interference in the
domestic affairs of Latin
America. It also
reinforced the idea that
the US would be a “good
neighbor” and engage in
reciprocal exchanges with
Latin America countries.
Neutrality act of 1935
• imposed a general
embargo on trading in
arms and war materials
with all parties in a war.
It also declared that
American citizens
travelling on warring
ships travelled at their
own risk. The act was set
to expire after six months.
POLICIES
Neutrality Act 1936
Neutrality act 1937
• Renewed the provisions of • Included the provisions of the
the 1935 act for another 14 earlier acts, this time without
expiration date, and extended
months. It also forbade all
them to cover civil wars as
loans or credits to
well. Furthermore, U.S. ships
belligerents. However, this
were prohibited from
act did not cover "civil
transporting any passengers
wars," such as the one in
or articles to belligerents, and
Spain, nor did it cover
U.S. citizens were forbidden
materials such as trucks
from traveling on ships of
and oil
belligerent nations.
IMPORTANT FOREIGN EVENTS
Munich Conference
Lend-Lease Act
• A legislation passed by
congress in 1941
• 1938
adopting a plan to lend
arms to Britain
• Agreement in which Britain
• Also know as the Munich
Pact
and France appeased Hitler
by agreeing that Germany
could annex the
Sudetenland, a GermanSpeaking region of
Czechoslovakia
ATLANTIC CHARTER
Atlantic Charter
• Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted
by the leaders of Britain and the US, and later agreed to by all
the Allies. The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no
territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made
against the wishes of the people; restoration of selfgovernment to those deprived of it; equal access to raw
materials; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation
to secure better economic and social conditions for all;
freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and
abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of
aggressor nations.
CONFERENCES
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
• Feb. 1945
• July- August 1945
• Allied Leaders
• Allied Leaders
• FDR, Churchill,
Stalin
• Plan the future of
post WWII Europe
• Truman, Churchill,
Atlee, Stalin
• Finalize post WWII
plans for Europe