Exam 3

• embargo against both sides in any military condlict 
• protection of neutral rights could not become an excuse ofr intervention in war
• Cash and carry policy

The Roosevelt administration was also taking a new approach toward Latin America, an approach that became known as the " ", and that expanded on the changes the HOover administration had made. At an Inter-American Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, in December 1933, Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed a formal convention declaring: "No state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another."

Effort by Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes, attempted to prevent a destabilizing naval armaments race among the United States, Britain, and Japan.

Established limits for total naval tonnage and a ratio of armamemnts among the signatories.

French foreign minister asked the united states to join an alliance against Germany, Secretary of State who replaced Hughes, proposed instead a multilateral treaty outlawing war as an instrument of national policy. Fourteen nations signed agreement in Paris. Forty eight other nations later joined. It contained no instruments of enforcement.

A foreign policy that avoids forging alliances or lending support to other nations, especially in wartime.

Legislation to prevent the United States from being dragged into conflict. Establishes a mandatory arms embargo against both sides in any military conflict and warned American citizens against traveling on the ships of warring nations. Established the so-called cash-and-carry policy, by which warring nations could purchase only nonmilitary goods from the United states and could do so only by paying cash and shipping their purchases themselves.

Would allow the federal government not only to sell but also to lend or lease armaments to any nation deemed "pivotal to the defense of the United States." United states could funnel weapons to the british on the basis of promise to return when the war was over.