-know what it specifically did and how it helped lead to WWII
***Military.
*Germanys army reduced to 100,000 men. NO TANKS
*Germany not allowed airforce.
***Financial.
*The loss of vital territory would be a severe blow to germanys economy.
*Combined with the financial penalties linked to reparations($33 billion)
*Seemed to germans that allies were bankrupting them.
***General
*Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the was. "clause 231" War guilt clause
*A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace.
II. League of Nations
-define and explain it's weaknesses
*It was a peace keeping organization.
*Woodrow wilsons final and main plan in the 14 points to get us out of war.
***Weaknesses
* The U.S not being in it.
-Why didn't the US join
*They felt it would pull us into war.
*U.S was more isolationist and didnt want to get involved with european conflicts.
*They didnt have their own military.
*For anything to happen they required a unanimous vote.
III. Know the basics about the following countries:
-How did WWI/Treaty of Versailles impact this country
-How did this country change in the 1920's/1930's(includes leader coming to power and their goals).
-What was/were this countries military strategies in the 1920's and 1930's.
-How was this country involved on WWII(what alliance did they belong to, how were they involved within the war)
Germany-
Treaty of Versailles: More info above! Most impacted country.
Government: Parliamentry republic. Hitler was the appointed as the Chancler to get germany back on their feet. He Got rid of the democracy and made himself the leader.
***Weimer republic or democracy. It was the first time germany had ever had a democracy.
***Blamed the Weimer Republic for casting all the problems.
Italy
■Italy was an ally of the U.S. in World War I
■They were angry because they did not get all the land they were promised
■Had a constitutional monarchy at first with King Emmanuel
■Benito Mussolini worked his way up through the military and the king helped him develop his own government
■Part of the Facist party
■Basically a dictatorship where everything you do should benefit your country
■Italy was very weak militarily
■The king asked Mussolini to become the leader because he knew he would not allow communism
■Mussolini gave army jobs, stregthened the military/economy, and kept out communists
■Mussolini got a big head and wanted to dominate the mediteranean area and as much of Africa as possible
Soviet Union
■Treaty of versilles didnt effect them a whole lot.
■Joseph Stalin took over for Vladmir Lenin
■Started becoming a dictator and pushed for industry, telling farmers how to plant their crops.
■Nationalization-industry
■government too over businesses and industries in the Soviet Union
■Collectivization- Farms
■goverment took over farms
■took them from farmers and told them they worked for the Soviet Union
■many farmers fought back.
■******Stalin was building tanks and guns before food so people were dying of starvation.
■Had a red army.
■Stalin was NOT ready for german army.
■Their military was strong but their people were suffering
■Killed any opponents too
■More people died under his reign than under Hitler's
■His goal was to improve the economy's output
■Military strategy: had red army
■Stalin was not ready for the German army
■Destroyed everything during their retreat so that Germany could not use anything
■Allies with Germany at first in the Soviet-German non-Agression pact where they agreed not to fight
■Soviets invaded Poland and did a bad job and Germany invaded them
■Then throughout most of the war they were allies with Great Britain, France, and the U.S.
■Winston Churchill said we should be more concerned with the Soviets than Germany
■Soviets had the highest number of causualties in WWII
Japan
-Received German teritory, many islands
-Had an emperor, Emperor Hirohito
-Hideki Tojo was the leader of the military
-Hirohito approved the attacking of Pearl Harbor
-They couldn't trade with anyone because of high tariffs, and they wanted natural resources/imports
-Invaded Mancuria, Northern part of China, to get their resources
-Invaded the rest of China in 1937 to dominate Southeast Asia and be the dominant power
-Military had too much power and didn't listen to Hirohito
-Everything in Japan was pretty much destroyed because the United States was bombing them every day with the two atomic bombs and conventional bombs (basic bombs, non-atomic)
-Japan didn't want to invade the United States because they didn't think it would be easy
-We weren't trading oil with them, and they really wanted us to
-United States said Japan had to back out of China before oil would be traded with them again, but Japan didn't want to so they decided to bomb Pearl Harbor
-Japan didn't want us to get into the war so they bombed us, because they thought they were wiping out our whole Navy
-Many negative feelings came out after the Treaty of Versailles. They felt they deserved a place among the world powers but were being treated like a second-class nation
-Admiral Yamamoto was educated in the United States but said if they wanted to beat us they had to take out the Pacific fleet
-In the 1920s Japan did everything they could to make it look like they were close allies
-When the great depression hit the military came to power and said if they can't trade anymore they will invade instead
-Japan was practally demolished, but the United States helped rebuild it to stop the spread of Communism
Great Britain
■Treaty gave them german colonies in africa.
■They got alot of money from Germany
■Part of the Allied Powers
■They were getting bombed every night throughout the war
■Lost some of its great powers and its empire fell apart.
■Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister
■told his people to keep fighting and never give up
France
■Treaty of Versailles gave them land back from Germany.
■They got colonies in Africa
■Got alot of war reparations (money)
■The leader was Charles DeGall he was the leader of the free french underground.
■They were very happy about the german army being diminished
■Marshal Henri Petain led the Vichy Government
■Got demolished by German Bliskkreg
■took a defensive military strategie
■Goals were, promote industrial growth, give algeria independence, and to keep germany weak and prevent war from happening.
■Built i giant fortification system to keep Germany from invading
■It didnt work.
■Allied Powers
■Alot of France was hit hard
China
■They didnt sign the treaty
■Chaing Kai Shek
■He was the leader of the nationist party
■Mao Zedong
■he is communist
-Japan invaded China and China suffered a lot but did not surrender
-Thousands of people were killed by Japanese soldiers and women were raped by them
US
Canada
*It didnt impact them a whole lot.
*Canada was a british colony and moved towards independance slowly
*Government wasnt the best but it got better as time went on
*William McKenzie King was the leader
*Came to power by politics
*Canadian Air force and navy were very significant
*Ground Troops were a part of the DDay events
*They didnt have the numbers like other countries
*Food and war good production was significant.
Australia
*Me and Ally did our discussion today!
IV. Hitler's Treatment of the Jews
V. Munich Conference-Policy of Appeasement
VI. US Role in the 1920's/1930's
-Washington Naval Conference
-Kellog-Briand Pact
-Neutrality Acts throughout the 1930's
-Quarantine Speech
-Bases for Destroyers
-Lend-Lease Act
VII. Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
VIII. Outbreak of War--Blitzkrieg!!
-Japan and China
-Germany and Poland
-Germany and France
-Germany and Great Britain
-Germany and the Soviet Union
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