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| CHAPTER 29 | FROM ISOLATION TO GLOBAL WAR | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1921–1922 |
Washington Disarmament Conference |
| 1607 |
Settlement of Virginia |
| 1922 |
Five-Power Naval Treaty |
| 1925 |
Reign of Charles I |
| 1928 |
Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| 1928 |
Clark Memorandum |
| 1931 |
Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
| 1932 |
Stimson Doctrine |
| 1933 |
Hitler took power in Germany |
| 1933 |
London Economic Conference |
| 1934 |
Trade Agreements Act |
| 1934–1937 |
Nye Committee |
| 1935 |
Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1937 |
Japan’s invasion of China |
| 1937 |
Quarantine Speech |
| 1938 |
Ludlow Amendment |
| September 1, 1939 |
World War II began |
| 1940 |
First peacetime draft |
| June 1940 |
Fall of France |
| 1940 |
Roosevelt’s election to a third term |
| 1941 |
Lend-Lease program began |
| June 1941 |
Germany’s invasion of Russia |
| July 1941 |
Japanese extend protectorate over Indochina |
| December 7, 1941 |
Attack on Pearl Harbor |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Recount the foreign policy pursued by the United States in the interwar period.
- Outline the aggressions of Japan, Italy, and Germany in the decade of the 1930s.
- Account for U.S. efforts at neutrality in the face of aggression and assess its
effectiveness in preventing war.
- Describe the election of 1940.
- Tell why and how the United States supported Britain and Russia prior to its
entry into the war.
- Explain the effectiveness of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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