February 29 - March 4 - Blogs

Monday: Start notes over the U.S.

Tuesday: Watched the U.S. video and continued with notes

Wednesday: Absent

Thursday: Started the Great Britain presentation

Friday: Continued with great Britain

United States

*U.S. After WWI

Never signed the Treaty of Versailles
- Wilson (democrat) vs. Congress (republican)
- Join the league of nations or go back to isolationism?
Warren Harding won the 1920 presidential election with a promise to "return to normalcy"
The U.S. went back to focusing on America
4, 5, 9 power pacts
Also signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact denouncing war as a means to settle disputes
Neutrality Acts
- Passed in the 1930s in response to issues in Europe and Asia
- Passed to ensure that the US would not become involved in war conflicts
- 1935 - stop trading with countries at war
- 1936 - stop loaning money to countries at war
- 1937 - cash and carry system, weapons not included
- 1939 - cash and carry system, weapons included
Quarantine Speech - 1937
America First Committee
- Keep US out of war
- Focus on America first
Panay incident - 1937
- American gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan
- 3 US troops killed, 45 wounded
- Japan said it was an accident, apologized and paid us $$
- Worsened US - Japanese relations
Bases for Destroyers
- 50 US destroyers were given to Great Britain in exchange for land rights on British colonies for naval or air base purposes
Lend-Lease act
- The end of neutrality
- Allowed US to sell, lend, or give war materials to nations we wanted to support
- US gave $50 billion to Allied nations

*Beginning of war

Selective Training and Service Act
- Passed in 1940, ended in 1947
- Required that men of ages 21-35 register for the draft
- Extended from ages from 18-45 when US entered the war
- First peacetime draft in U.S. history
Atlantic Charter
- Signed in August 1941 between the US and Great Britain
  - Between FDR and Churchill
- Defined the allied goals for the post-war world

*Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941
Japan flew through the Pacific with no radio signals and in a place where there is no trading
The Japanese were successful but a lot of ships could be fixed and re used
Why did they attack?
- After Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940, US stopped trading with Japan
- Japan signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April, 1941 guaranteeing that Japan and USSR would not go to war
- Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
- Only way to force US' hand was to hit them hard in a surprise attack forcing them out of war
- Japan knew that this plan was a huge risk, but thought it was the only way to defeat us
- Plan backfired and Japan "awoke a sleeping giant"

*FDR's War Message

December 8th, 1941, war is declared
Pearl Harbor was not the only area Japan attacked
Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, Philippines, Wake Island, and Midway Island were also attacked
Backdoor to War consipracy
- We forced Japan to attack us to get into war
- Got to war to Germany through Japan

Great Britain

*After WWI

*Road to war

*Leaders

Neville Chamberlain
- First leader, forced out
- Lost power because of the outcry from the Munich Pact
- Gave into what Hitler wanted, made him look weak when Hitler broke his promise
Winston Churchill
- Prime minister
- Self created position - minister of defence
Clement Attlee
- Labour leader
- Took prime minister away from Churchill

*Casualties

*Battle strategies

*Battles

Phoney War
- Germany invaded Poland
- Bombing raids
- 6 months of calmness after this - people thought it was over
Second battle of El Alamein
- British empire and Germany-Italy
- Forced Germany to retreat
- In north Africa
The Blitz (Battle of Britain)
- Attack on London from Germany
- Bombing raids - aiming at highly populated places
- 57 days
- The RAF saved Britain, Germany never got full air control

*War leaders

Bernard Montgomery
- Field Marshall
- First major land victory made him hero
- Most famous British General

*Impacts

*End of war