Monday- started presentations
Tuesday- continued with presentations
Wednesday-watched the game
Thursday-Took notes and watch the great Britain video
Friday-
US in WWII
Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
- US never signed the Treaty of Versailles
Wilson (Dem.) vs. Congress
oin the League of Nations or go back to isolationism.
-Republican Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election with a promise to “Return to Normalcy”
4 Power Pact
- Treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan at the Washing ton Naval Conference in 1921
- Countries agreed to respect each other’s possessions in the Pacific and not seek further territory.
5 Power Pact
-Signed by Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy.
- Designed to prevent an arm's race.
-It limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers and aircraft carriers.
-did not restrict cruisers, destroyers or submarines.
9 Power Pact
-Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy.
- Signed by the United States, Japan, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal.
Kellogg- Briand Pact
- Countries that signed agreed to not go to war to settle disputes.
- Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan
-65 countries eventually signed it.
London Naval Conference- 1931
- Concerned with the agreements reached in Washington Naval Conference. The UK, the USA, France, Italy and Japan attended.
-Set up to make 5 Power Pact stronger
Neutrality in General
- the Neutrality Acts were passed by the US in 1930’s in response to the issues in Europe and Asia that eventually led to WWII
- they were caused by the desire to be isolationist in the US following WWI
- Passed to ensure that the US would not become involved in world conflicts
America First Committee= stay to America and keep out of war in Europe.
US Neutrality Acts During 1930’s
- Neutrality Act of 1935- stop trading with countries at war
- Neutrality Act of 1936- stop loaning money t0 countries at war
- Neutrality Act of 1937- cash and carry system- weapons not included= required countries to pay in cash, and carry it back on their own ships.
- Neutrality Act of 1989- Cash and Carry System- weapons included
Quarantine Speech – 1937
- a speech about counties like the US and Great Britain to keep the other countries from expanding
Panay incident – December 1937
- American gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan
- 3 US troops killed, 45 wounded
-Japan said it was an accident, apologized and paid us $$$
-Worsened US-Japanese relations
Bases for Destroyers
-Passed in September, 1940 between the US and Great Britain
-Fifty US destroyers were given to Great Britain in exchange for land rights (for 99 years) on British colonies for naval or air base purpose
- Newfoundland, eastern side of the Bahamas, southern coast of Jamaica, western coast of St. Lucia, west coast of Trinidad, Antigua, British Guiana and Bermuda were the areas the US received
End of US Neutrality – Lend - Lease Act
- The end of neutrality for the US came with the Lend- Lease Act, passed in March, 1941
-This act allowed the U.S. to sell, lend, or give war materials to nations the US wanted to support
-US gave $50 billion to allied nations throughout the war
- gave munitions, foot, industrial materials, and services
Selective Training and Service Act
-Passed in September, 1940 and ended in 1947
-Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft
-Extended to all men aged 18 to 45 once US entered war
-first peacetime draft in US history
Atlantic Charter
-Signed in August in 1941 between the US (FDR) and Great Britain (Churchill)
- Defined the allied goals for the post-war world
- Many similarities to Wilson’s 14 points
Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941
- Japan wanted hurt us before we got into the war, and start trading oil with them.
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