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Unit 6: 1890-1945 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Belief in expanding West granting inherent superiority - expand beyond borders
  - - - Cuban independence for U.S. intervention
  - - - Policy of U.S. isolationism - Europe stay out of U.S. affairs
    - - U.S. intervention in Caribbean permitted
    - - use of military force
    - - Taft: prioritize economic productivity/business through foreign policy
    - - spread democracy
- - - - Lend-Lease: allies can now gain goods on credit to be paid back later
    - - defines U.S. goal for democracy
    - - Four Freedoms: freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech, freedom of worship
  - - - regulate war production
    - - Women gaining more job opportunities
  - - - created bombs for Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings
  - - - Stalin wanted the allies to attack Hitler in northwest Europe (D-Day)
      - D-Day
        
        turning point of war
  - - - Yalta
        
        Germany divided into occupation zone, UN created
      - Tehran
        
        first meeting; visions of post-war Europe, Russia seeks second front
      - Potsdam
        
        Nazi war crime trials, A-bomb authorized
    - - Great Britain, U.S., Soviet Union meet at wartime conferences to address how to counter Japan, Germany
- - - - Interception of letter from Germany to Mexico promising land back in return for allyship in war
    - - hopes to win war quickly before U.S. intervention
  - - - hope to prevent another world war
      - Article X (League of Nations)
    - - Henry Cabot Lodge and the Irreconciliables
        
        U.S. never joins the LoN
- - - - set ratio of battleships per nation to maintain naval peace
    - - Don't war to resolve issues. Failed because of lack of enforcement
    - - denounce Japan's invasion of Manchuria - demonstrated U.S. diplomacy/high ground
    - - intended to make sure U.S. doesn't get involved in European war