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| 1933–36 |
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| FOREIGN POLICIES of the New Deal. On Nov. 17, 1933, diplomatic relations with Russia were resumed, ending the policy of nonrecognition which had prevailed since the overthrow of the Kerensky government in 1917. | 1 |
| The Johnson Debt Default Act (approved April 13, 1934) prohibited financial transactions with foreign governments in default in payment of obligations to the U.S. | 2 |
| The Cuban Treaty (ratified May 31, 1934) abrogated the Platt Amendment. | 3 |
| Pan-American conference, convened at Buenos Aires on Dec. 1, 1936, was addressed by President Roosevelt in person, who outlined his American peace program. Secretary Hull presented the plan for a neutrality pact for American nations. | 4 |
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| 1934 |
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| Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, the only Hispanic in the U.S. Senate, served as an adviser to FDR on Hispanic affairs. | 5 |
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| June 12 |
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| Reciprocal Tariff Act, authorizing the president, for a period of three years, to negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries without the advice and consent of the Senate; gave the president the power to raise and lower tariff rates by not more than 50 percent. | 6 |
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| June 19 |
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| The Communications Act created the Federal Communications Commission to regulate interstate and foreign communications by telegraph, telephone, cable, and radio. It abolished the Federal Radio Commission and transferred its functions, and those of the Interstate Commerce Commission, with respect to telephone and telegraph, to the new commission. | 7 |
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