February 19,2013

[2Asia]

Today Mr. Bruns is gonna talk to us (teach us)
Topics:
1. Treaty of Versailes:
war ended with treaty of versailes and it was aimed to punish germany. Us,Britian made many of the big decisons. it was aim to get the land that was lost get it back! Territorial lose. people lost land to France,Belgium,Denmark,Czechoslovakia and Poland, then eventually Russia. Also there was military lose. German's military lost about 100,000 men. Germany was allowed 6 naval ships. They had many military restrictions. no air force, submarines or tanks. finicial loses, german had to pay 33 million dollars to the allies(Great BRitian and France) lost lots of land. all this land had lots of resources and factories. which also was a money loss for them because they could not make any money from these resources or factories. 1920s in germany hard which put them into a great depression. which also helped hitler and the Nazi party. Germany had to admit for full responsiblity for starting the war, Clause 231, infamous"war gulit clause". A league of Nations was set up to keep world peace. (treaty of versailes was all aimed at germany, so germany was never strong ever again)(germany not happy with treaty)(led to rise of Nazi Party)2. League of Nations:
peace keeping organization. where countries come together to try to jus talk out there problems. We never joined. that was one of the biggest weakness. it also was a weakness cause we never had a army team.required more votes then ever. almost impossible. needed unanimous approval.failed to keep from world war two from happening.
3.Isolationism"Return to Normalcy"
we were gonna stay isolated. stay out of league of nations. took the pearl harbor attack to get into the war. we shoulda helped great brtiatin. we stayed out of evrything.
4.Washington Naval Conference(4,5,9 Power Pacts)
Held in washington DC, came the power oacts designed to keep from war and keep peace.
-Power PAct 4, Us, GB, france and japan. were in the treaty. countries promised to respect other countries possesions.
-Power PAct 5,GB,US,japan,Fance,italy. designed to reduce naval signs. did not restrict crusisers, destroyers and submairnes, trying to make the world a safer place.
-Power PAct 9,guarentined  chinese independcen, free trading in china for all countries. upheld the OPen Door policy.
5.KellogBriand Pact:
60 some countries to make sure they outlawed war.
6. Great Depression:
pretty much undid all the peace offerings from the 1920s.