WW2 topics continued.
8. Japan invades French Indochina:
- Pacific front by Japan
- 1940-41
- Pacific front controlled by France
- We cut off trade with Japan
- US fueled war machines for Japan
- before we trade with Japan until you withdraw with China
- option 1= withdraw
- option 2= attack US and be forced to trade with Japan
- option 3= compromise
- led to the attack on Peal Harbor
9. Germany invades USSR:
- June 1941
- Hitler's goal= Lebensraum or living space
- Lebensraum was to expand the Aryan race (blond hair, blue eyed Germans) to USSR
- hated USSR (Hitler)
- not a good idea because the USSR is to big
- known as Operation Barbarossa
- 3 main cities Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad that Hitler wanted to take control of
- Stalingrad=tough battle, worst battle of WW2
- Moscow=got to the outskirts but didn't get to it or bomb it
- Leningrad= bombed it, surrounded it, hoped for them to surrender because of low food, never really invaded the city
- didn't ever take any of the cities
- Winter in Russia and slowed the Germans down slowly
- hoped to take USSR over in less than a year
- Russia slowly pushed Germany back to where they belong
- mistake that cost Hitler the war
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
- Known as the Burke- Wadsworth Act
- Required men of ages 21 and 35 to register with local draft boards
- when we entered WW2, men 18 to 45 were subject to join Military service
- men ages 18 to 65 were required to register
- Signed by FDR in 1940
- established the first peace- time draft in US history
- all men 21 to 36 registered for the draft
- government selected men through a lottery system
- one man would serve for 12 months
- provisions drafted soldiers had to remain in the Western Hemisphere or in the US territories located in other arts of the world.
- The act provided that not more than 900,000 men were to be in training at any one time, and it limited service to 12 months
- enacted in September 16, 1940
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