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The conference was held from July 21 to July 30, 1940. The US had already publicly stated it would not accept transfer of territories to nations outside of the Americas, in a policy known as "No Transfer". The delegation of the United States met resistance in their efforts from the Argentinian
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The "Act of Havana" further provided that if a European nation should fall before the agreement's ratification, any of the countries could take over the relevant territories. The "Declaration of Reciprocal Assistance and Cooperation for the Defense of the Nations of the Americas" codified a
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Reaction to the ratification of the conference was met accusations of American imperialism from both the French and German press. Communist led labor groups in Mexico protested Mexico's involvement at the conference seeing cooperation with the United States to be imperialist.
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Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate on The Charter of the United Nations for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, submitted by the president of the United States on July 2,
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principle of American nations by stating that an attack on one country would be considered an attack on them all. This also provided for the creation of further pledges for mutual defense.
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This general sense of unity between nations meant that the United States had been broadly successful. The agreement to a "no transfer doctrine" codified an aspect of the
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which was called the following year and attending delegates had decided to hold another conference to discuss how to handle territories of European powers. Formally the
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On June 17, 1940, the US moved the conference time up in response to a perceived increase in the situation's urgency after the
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and also declared that an attack on any nation in the region would be considered as an attack on all nations.
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Second Meeting of Consultation of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics
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of American nations. The trusteeship would have one member from every American nation.
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agreed to collectively govern territories of nations that were taken over by the
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Good Neighbor Diplomacy United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945
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of 1938, American nations agreed they would meet should a threat to the
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FDR's Good Neighbor Policy : sixty years of generally gentle chaos
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The United States and the Caribbean in the twentieth century
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and expanded it to nations besides the United States.
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Index

Cuban
Havana
United States
Panama
Mexico
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Peru
Paraguay
Uruguay
Honduras
Chile
Colombia
Venezuela
Argentina
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Brazil
Bolivia
Haiti
El Salvador
Axis powers
World War II
World War II
Germany
Europe
Netherlands
France
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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