Monday - Finished part 2 of the 1930s test.
Tuesday -
WW2
- Alliances:
- Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan
- Allied Powers - Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, China, and USA
- Treaty of Versailles
- Land taken from Germany after WW1: (a lot of land)
- Lost land to France, Belgium, Denmark, Czech, Poland
- The Treaty of Versailles took so much away and Germany wanted it all back
- Military
- Germany's army reduced to 100,000 men, the army was not allowed tanks
- Not allowed an airforce
- Only allowed 6 capital naval ships
- West of Rhineland was 50 kms east of the river .... Not was allowed to use land for military
- No German solider or weapon allowed on the land
- Financial
- Had to pay $33 billion
- Led to high inflation -- caused the German dollar to be absolutely worthless
- Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate
- Land taken from Germany after WW1: (a lot of land)
Wednesday -
- 4 Power Pact
- treaty signed by US, Great Britain, France, and Japan in 1921
- respect each other's possessions
- 5 Power Pact
- signed by GB, US, 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
- guarenteed Chinese independance and upself the Open Door Policy
- signed by US, Japan, China, France, GB, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- countries that signed agreed to not go to war to settle disputes
- 65 countries signed it
- Including Germany, Austrailia, Canada, Czech, France, GB, India, Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, and the US were the original signers
- London Naval Conference - 1931
- concerned with the agreements reached in Washington Naval Conference
- The UK, USA, France, Italy, and Japan attended
- all 5 agreed to a five year halt on capital ship construction, tighers controls on submarine warfare, and the continuation of limits on aircraft carriers
- The Impact of the Great Depression
- Japan - had little resouces -- invade China in order to get resources
- Germany - they were broke and wanted to take back what was "theirs"
Thursday - Movie.
Friday - No school.
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