Monday- test (gone for Jazz)
Tuesday- World War 2 Alliances
- Alliances
- Axis Powers
- Rome Germany and Italy were going to be the most influential areas of the world
- GERMANY, JAPAN, ITALY
- Germany was stripped of all its powers from WWI
- Allied Powers
- GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, UNITED STATES, SOVIET UNION, FRANCE (part of France was taken over in WWI)
- Axis Powers
Wednesday- Notes
- Treaty if Versailles
- Ended WWI
- Took land away from Germany (France wanted to punish Germany)
- Lost over seas colonies
- Later Hitler took over the countries that took land away(France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland)
- Germany invaded Poland in 1939 that started WWII and Soviet Union also invaded Poland the same day
- Limited Germany's military
- 100,000 but trained and then released and got another 100,000
- No tanks, Air Force, demilitarized areas without weapons
- Financial loss for Germany
- Had to pay $33 billion to Allies (GB/France)
- Had to admit full responsibility of starting war "War Guilt Clause"
- A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace
- 1920's and 1930's Peace Attempts
- League of Nations
- Worldwide peace keeping organization
- Countries get together and talk about problems instead of war
- Weakness
- 1.) Approving rules- all countries couldn't agree on things
- 2.) United States didn't join- Woodrow Wilson brought it up and didn't join (didn't want to get involved)
- 3.) Didn't have a military force- couldn't physically stop countries starting war and taking over
- League of Nations
- 4 Power Pact
- Treaty signed by US, GB, France, and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference in 1921
- Countries agreed to respect possessions in the Pacific and not seek further territory
- Treaty signed by US, GB, France, and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference in 1921
- 5 Power Pact
- GB, US, Japan, France, Italy
- Designed to prevent army's race
- Limited construction of battleships and aircraft carriers
- did not restrict cruisers or submarines
- GB, US, Japan, France, Italy
- 9 Power Pact
- Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy
- signed by US, Japan, China, France, GB, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal
- Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Countries that agreed to not go to war to settle disputes
- 65 countries signed it
- Countries that agreed to not go to war to settle disputes
- London Naval Conference-1931
- Concerned with the agreements reached in Washington Naval Conference
- The UK, USA, France, Italy, and Japan attended
- All five agreed to extend the 5 Power Pact (tighter control of warfare weapons/ construction)
- Impact of the Great Depression on War
- Caused World trade to go down
- People gave more respect to radical leaders (like Hitler) because the hate their own government
- Japan was very dependent on US trade (which had slowed down)
- China was Japan's resource after US stopped trading
Thursday- Notes (took Test)
- Start WWII Country Project
- https://mrbruns.ning.com/group/ushistory/forum/wwii-project-2
Friday- No School
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