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Renounced armed intervention in Latin America in Montevideo and Uruguay.
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Activated low-tariff policies while aiming at relief and recovery by boosting American trade. In response to opposition to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.
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Stated that the Philippines would recieve their independence after 12 years of ecominc and political tutelage, in 1946.
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Prevented nations already in debt from borrowing from the United States.
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Stated that when the President Proclaimed the existance of a foreign war, certain restrictions would actuomatically go into effect.:
- No American could legally sail on a belligerent ship
- No selling or transporting munitions to a belligerent
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When Japan invaded China, he gave his famous "Quarantine Speech"
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Abandoned the Neutrality acts. Hitler recognized that.
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Japanese bombers attacked the Hawaian naval base in Pearl Harbor, killing about 3,000 men and destrpying countless ships.
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