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Chapter 25 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Nazis were rising.
    - - Hughes proposed, dramatic reductions in the fleets of all three nations and a ten-year moratorium on the construction of large warships. The scrapping of nearly 2 million tons of existing shipping.
        
        The Five-Power Pact of February 1922 created both naval limits for total naval tonnage and a ratio of armametns among the signatories.
        
        The Nine-Power Pact which allowed continuation of the open door policy in China, and the Four Power Pact, by which the United States, Britain, France and Japan promised to respect one another's pacific territories and cooperate to prevent aggression.
        
        Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 outlawed war as an instrument of national policy.
        
        Dawes plan was created to give loans to Germany which would give them to Britain and France and then come back to the U.S. This did little to help though
    - - Yet U.S. had expanded to Latin America and placed roads, etc... as to obtain Latin American resources.
    - - Roosevelt became president and repudiated the delegates and rejected any agreement on currency stabilizatoin.
        
        Roosevelt let the issue of currency simply die out. And forbid American banks to make loans to any nation for debts. This would end the old circular system and within months the war-debt payments were stopped for good. Except Finland.
        
        Roosevelt and the U.S. was interested in improving America's position in world trade. Roosevelt approved the Reciprocal Trade agreement Act of 1934 which allowed the administration to negotiate treaties lowering tarrifs by a much as 50 percent in return for reciprocal reductions by other nations. This resutled in an Increase of American exports. But products that were not in competition with U.S. were accepted. Other countires were not getting U.S. currency to pay of debt.
        
        The U.S. and the Soviet Union had made a truce that the U.S. would recognize the Soviet regiem, and in return the Soviet Union would protect U.S. people in Russia. This failed because U.S. didn't assure the Soviet Union that they would do what they said and the American trade never really popped off in Russia.
        
        The Good Neighbor Policy was created which meant that between Latin America and the U.S. no military force would be used, but economic influence.
        
        Roosevelt asks Senate to ratify a treaty to make the United States a member of the World Court. But isolationist sentiment didn't like the treaty.
        
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  - - - A meeting in Munich was held to make Hitler stop getting more land. He agreed and that seemed like that was it.
        
        Hitler then went on to get the rest of Czechoslovakia, and staged an incident that made it look like the Poles were attacking Germany and on September 1, 1939, he launched a full-scale invasion of Poland. Britain and France said they would protect Poland and declared war on Germany two days later.