February 15-19

[3Kelsey]

Monday - Part 2 of Group Test

Tuesday - 

-What were the two alliances during WWII and what countries belonged to each?

Axis and Allies

• Axis

  • Germany

  • Italy

  • Japan

 

• Allies

  • Great Britain

  • France

  • Soviet Union

  • United States

  • Canada

  • China

  • Australia

Know people's names and faces:

1. Benito Mussolini - Italy

2. Adolf Hitler - Germany

3. Hideki Tojo - Japan

4. Hirohito - Japan

5. Winston Churchill -  Great Britain

6. F.D.R - United States

7. Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union

Wednesday - Notes

1. Alsace-Lorraine ( given to france)

2. Eupen and Malmedy (given to Belgium)

3. Northern Schleswig - (given to Denmark)

4. Hultschin - (given to Czechoslovakia)

5. West Prussia , Posen and Upper Silesia - (given to Poland)

• The Saar, Danzig and Memel were put under the control of the League of Nations and the people of these regions would be allowed to vote to stay in Germany or not in a future referendum.

• The League of Nations also took control of Germany’s overseas colonies

• Germany had to return to Russia land taken in the treaty of brest-Litovsk . Some of this land was made into new states: Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Poland also received some of this land.

Military

• Germany’s army was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanks

• Germany was not allowed an airforce

• Germany allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines

• The Rhineland area of Germany was made into a demilitarized zone (DMZ)

• No German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone

• The allies were to keep an army of occupation on the west bank of the Rhine for 15 yrs.

Financial

• The loss of vital industrial 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 forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate

General

1. Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. This was Clause 231- the infamous “ War Guilt Clause”

2. Germany and to pay war reparations to Great Britain and France

3. A League of Nations was to set up and keep world (FINISH FROM PPOINT)

 

League of Nations - Worldwide peace keeping organization

Weaknesses:

• In order for something to happen everyone has to agree

• United States didn’t join

• Didn’t or physically not have a military force                     

 

4 Power Pact

• Treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France, and Japan at the Washington 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, France, the United States, Japan, Italy

• Designed to prevent an arm’s race

• It limited the construction of battleships and battlecruisers                     

 

9 Power Pact

• Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy

• Signed by the US, 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

• US, France, Germany, Etc.       

 

London Naval Conference- 1931

• Concerned with the agreements reached in Washington Naval Conference

• The UK, the USA, France, Italy, and Japan attended

• All five agreed to a five-year halt on capital ship construction, tighter controls on submarine warfare, and the continuation of limits on aircraft carries