Monday- took 2nd part of test
Tuesday- notes
Wednesday- notes
Thursday- started movie
Friday- no school
WHAT WE KNOW
December 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor
Hitler- Holocaust, taking over Europe
D-Day- June 6, 1944, beginning of the end of Nazi Germany
Dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
INTRO
What were the two alliances during WWII and what countries belonged to each?
- Axis and Allies
- Axis- Germany, Japan, Italy
- Allies- Canada, United States, Soviet Union, France, Great Britain, China, Australia
Know: Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), FDR (United States), Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Hideki Tojo (Japan), Hirohito (Japan Emperor)
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
- Cause of WWII
- Treaty that ended WWI
- 1919
- Woodrow Wilson was there
- New countries
- Hitler wanted to get the land back that was taken from Germany at the end of WWI
- Lost land to:
- France
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Czechoslovakia
- League of Nations took over Germany's overseas colonies
- Germany's military
- army was reduced to 100,000 men, no tanks
- not allowed air force
- allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- weren't allowed into the DMZ
- Loss of vital territory would be a severe blow to Germany's economy
- Coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular was a vital economic loss
- Germany had to pay $33 billion to the allies (GB/France)
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war
- Clause 231- the infamous "War Guilt Clause"
- A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace
League of Nations
- not everyone agreed
- economic sanctions
- wanted to create world peace
- requires unanimous approval
Washington Naval Conference
- 4 Power Pact
- Treaty signed by the US, GB, France, and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference in 1921
- Countries agreed to respect each others possessions in the pacific and not seek further territory
- 5 Power Pact
- Signed by Great Britain, US, Japan, France, Italy
- Designed to prevent an arm's race
- Limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers, and aircraft carriers
- Did not restrict cruisers, destroyers of submarines
- 9 Power Pact
- Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy
- Signed by US, Japan, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Countries that signed agreed to not go to war to settle disputes
- Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, GB, India, Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, and US originally signed
- 65 countries eventually signed it
- London Naval Conference- 1931
- Concerned with the agreements reached in Washington Naval Conference
- UK, USA, France, Italy, and Japan attended
- All 5 agreed to a 5-year halt on capital ship construction, tighter controls on submarine warfare, and the continuation of limits on aircraft carriers
What impact did the Great Depression have on the world?
- People turned to more radical ideas
- Helped dictators come to power because they promised better times
- Helped lead into WWII indirectly
- Japanese Aggression
- Italian Aggression
- German Aggression
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