Monday- Soviet Union presentation, forum post leader
Tuesday- Soviet Union notes, start US presentation
Wednesday- US presentation
Thursday- finish soviet presentation, US presentation
Friday- finish US presentation, US notes
Notes:
Soviet Union:
- red symbolises communism
- red army
- red scare
- joseph stalin
- lenin suffered a stroke in 1922 and died
- when he died, he didnt like stalin
- after lenin died, there was a power struggle to see who would take over
- stalin won and gained power
- instead of giving out power (marxist) like lenin wanted to, he took power
- yosef ugasavilli
- not spelled right but his original name
- before wwii
- russia drops out of WWi to fight bolshevik revolution
- russia became communist and changed name to USSR in 1992
- purges and deportations to slave labor camps in siberia
- strengthened the intelligence and secret service
- created a "cult of personality"
- make a person seem god-like
- make the leader bigger than life
- nationalization and collectivization of the soviet economy
- nationalization
- government takes over businesses
- collectivization
- government takes over farms
- equality
- millions of people died because they fought back to keep their business/farm
- nationalization
- industrialization of soviet economy
- 5 year plans
- increase industrial plan and economy
- policies led to famine in ukraine
- 5-10 million died
- considered a genocide by some
- 5-10 million died
- banned religion
- during wwii
- signed german-soviet non-agression pact in 1939 leading to the invasion of poland
- also invaded estonia, latvia, lithuania, and finaland in 1939
- signed neutrality pact with japan in 1941
- invaded by germany in june 1941
- stalin instituted his retreat and "schorched earth policies"
- russian winter made it hard for other countries like germany
- wwii ended
- played huge role in wwii
United States (allies)
- allied powers
- us, great britain, france, china, soviet union
- us after wwi
- went back to isolationism
- republicans feared we would go back to war
- returned to normalcy
- never signed treaty of versailles
- joined 5 and 9 powerpacts, kellog-briand act
- went back to isolationism
- neutrality
- wanted to stay out of wars
- took an attack on us soil (pearl harbor) to get us to join
- interventionists vs. isolationists
- dr. seuss was an interventionists and wanted us to do something and get rid of neutrality act
- america 1st committee
- want to make america 1st
- tried to keep us out of war
- major isolationists
- neutrality acts
- neutrality of 1935
- stop trading with countries at war
- neutrality of 1936
- stop loaning money to countries at war
- neutrality of 1937
- cash and carry system, not weapons
- neutrality of 1938
- cash and carry system, with weapons
- neutrality of 1935
- quarantine speech- 1937
- roosevelt thought that peaceful nations need to stop the agressors
- panat incident
- american gunboat attacked on river in china by japan
- 3 us troops killed, 45 wounded
- japan apoligized, said it was accident
- paid us money
- bases for destroyers
- 50 us destroyers were given to great britain in exchange for land rights on british colonies for naval/air bases
- mainly in the carribian
- jamaica, bahamas, antigura, etc
- mainly in the carribian
- 50 us destroyers were given to great britain in exchange for land rights on british colonies for naval/air bases
- end of us neutrality-lend lease act
- got rid of neutrality acts
- we will send, lend, or give war materials to nations the us wanted to support
- we gave $50 billion (650 billion today) to allied nations throughout war
- over %50 of what we lent was military supplies
- also lent
- services
- food
- industrial products
- gave to (over $1 billion to each)
- great britain
- soviet union
- china
- selective training and service act
- required men between 21-35 to register
- later extended to ages 18-45 after ended war
- 1st peace time draft in us history
- many people volunteered
- pearl harbor- december 7, 1941 (sunday morning)
- 3 waves planned
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