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| 1940 - Approved by the 21 delegates of the Pan-American Union. Declared that any Latin American nation was permitted, in the name of defense, to take over and administer any European possession in the New World. |
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| 1937 - On the Yantze River in China, Japanese aircraft sank an American gunboat escorting tankers. The U.S. accepted Japan's appologies. |
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| 1937 - In this speech Franklin D. Roosevelt compared Fascist agression to a contagious disease, saying democracies must unite to quarantine agressor nations |
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| A series of treaties in 1936 and 37 between Germany, Italy, and Japan created what was called the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis." The coutries were thereafter refered to as the Axis Powers. |
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| Stated the warring nations wishing to trade with the U.S. would have to pay cash and carry the goods away in their own ships. Benefitted the Allies, since German ships could not reach the U.S. due to the Allied blockades. |
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| Required fingerprinting and registering of all aliens in the U.S. and made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. |
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August 1941 - Drawn up br FDR and Churchill with eight main principles:
+Renunciation of territorial agression
+No territorial changes without the consent of the peoples concerned
+Restoration of sovereign rights and self-government
+Access to raw material for all nations
+World economic cooperation
+Freedom from fear and want
+Freedom of the seas
+Disarmament of agressors |
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| Acted as a supreme court for labor cases. Did more harm than good when it tried to limit wages, which led to strikes |
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