Monday- Part two of Test
Tuesday- Notes about WWII
- What were the two alliances during WWI and What countries belonged to each
- Axis Powers
- Allied Powers
- The Road to WWI 1919-1939
- Major Players
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Harry Truman
- Winston Churchill
- Adolf Hitler
- Benito Mussolini
- Joseph Stalin
- Hideki Tojo
- etc.
- Major Players
- What was the Treaty of Versailles 1919
- Territorial
- The following land was taken away from Germany
- Alsace-Lorraine (given to France)
- Eupen and Malmedy (given to Belgium
- Northern Schleswig (given to Denmark)
- Hultschin (given to Czechoslovakia)
- West Prussia, Posen and Upper Sulesia (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 refer ended
- 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. An enlarged Poland also received some of this land
- The following land was taken away from Germany
- Military
- Germany's Army was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanks
- Germany was not allowed an air force
- Germany was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- The west of Rhineland and 50 kms east of the River Rhine was made into a demilitarized zone (DMZ).
- No German solider or weapon was allowed into this zone. The allies were to keep an army of occupation on the west bank of Rhine for 15 years.
- Financial
- The loss of vital industrial territory would be a severe blow ti 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 (Great Britain and France)
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to for 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, as it was responsible for starting the was as stated in clause 231, was therefore responsible for all the war damage cause by the First World War. Therefore, they had to pay reparations, the bulk of which would go to France and Belgium to pay for the damage done to both countries by the war. The figure was eventually put at 33 billion dollars
- Territorial
- 1920's/1930's Peace Attempts What impact did the Great Depression have on the world??
- League of Nations
- Worldwide peace keeping organization. Most of the world comes and talk out problems
- Failure
- Weaknesses
- 1. Approval to get done
- 2. The United States didn't join
- 3. Didn't have a military force
- Weaknesses
- Washington Naval Conference
- 4 Power Pact
- A treaty signed by the US, Great Britain, 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, The US, Japan, France, and Italy
- Designed to prevent an arm's race
- It limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers and air craft carries
- Did not restrict cruisers, destroyers or submarines
- 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
- 4 Power Pact
- Kellogg- Briand Pact
- Countries that signed agreed to not go to war to settle dispute
- Afghanistan, Finland, Peru, Albania,
- Guatemala, Portugal, Austria, Hungary,
- Rumania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Russia, China Latvia, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Denmark, Lithuania, Siam,
- Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, Nicaragua, Sweden, Estonia,
- Norway, Turkey, Ethiopia, Panama, Cuba, Liberia
- London Naval Conference- 1931
- Concerned with the agreements reached in Washington Naval
- The UK, the USA, France, Italy and Japan attended
- The major change was in battleship tonnage, altering the ratio between Britain, the US and Japan from 5:5:3 to 10:10:7
- All five agreed to a five-year halt on capital ship construction, tighter controls on submarine warfare, and the continuation of limits on aircraft carriers
- League of Nations
THURSDAY- Went over points we need for project
Discuss the following:
-Major events that impacted their country between WWI and WWII.
-Discuss basic facts: alliance, total casualties, total cost, war goals, etc
-Tell us about their leader(s) during WWII
-background
-how they came to power
-how they lost power
-Discuss the impact of their Home front and propaganda and what it was like in their country during the war
-Discuss major battle strategies
-Discuss major battles that the country was involved in
-Discuss other people/generals from their country in WWII that had a major impact on the war
-Discuss why they won or lost the war
-Discuss the impact WWII had on the country
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