Monday: Took the second part of the 30's test
Tuesday: Started WWII notes
Wednesday: Continued with the introduction powerpoint
Thursday: Talked about the countries project and started the World Wars movie
Friday: No school
*Alliances
- Axis powers -
- Germany, Japan, Italy
- Allies -
- Canada, United States, Soviet Union, France, Great Britain, China, Australia
*Major fronts
- Europe
- Soviet
- China
*The Treaty of Versailles
- Cause of WWII
- The treaty that ended WWI
- Territorial
- A lot of new countries came out of the Treaty
- Drove Hitler and Stalin to invade the new countries
- Hitler wanted to get the land back that was taken from Germany at the end of WWI
- Land taken from Germany
- France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland
- League of Nations also took control of Germany's overseas colonies (Africa)
- Military
- Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men,
- Army wasn't allowed tanks, airforce, and little ships
- Rhineland area of Germany was made into a no military zone
- Financial
- Germany had to pay $33 billion to the allies
- They also lost resources in the land they lost
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate
- General
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting WWI
- A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace
*1920's/1930's Peace Attempts
- League of Nations
- A world wide peace keeping organization
- The U.S. didn't join, thought power of congress to declare war would be taken away
- It required unanimous approval to do something
- Didn't have a military force
- Washington Naval conference
- 4 power pact:
- Treaty signed by the U.S., Great Britain, France, and Japan
- Countries agreed to respect each others 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
- Limited construction of battleships
- 9 power pact:
- Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy
- Signed by the U.S., Japan, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal
- Kellogg-Briand Pact:
- Countries that signed agreed to not go to war
- 65 countries total ended up signing it
- London Naval Conference
- Concerned with the agreements reached in the Washington Naval
- The UK, USA, France, Italy and Japan attended
- Closed the loopholes
*Impact of the Great Depression on the world
- World wide depression
- Allowed Japan power to invade China
- The Nazis started to come to power
- A lot of dictators that promised better time came into power
- Japanese aggression, Italian aggression, German aggression
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Adolph Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Emperor Hirohito
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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