Monday, March 10th

[6Mason]

1. Treaty of Versailles
   1. What was it? Ended WWII
   2. Major Points - All about punishing Germany. Many surrounding countries got land. Germany's army was reduced to 100,000. No tanks, no air force, no naval ships or subs. DMZ west of the Rhineland. They were forced to pay $33 billion to the Allies
   3. What did the US do with the Treaty of Versailles? Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland came from Russia. Czechoslovakia came from Germany. Many new countries formed.    We did not join the League of Nations, and because of it, we didn't sign the league
2. Peace attempts of the 1920s/30s
   1. Here
3. Germany's (Hitler's) defiance of the Treaty of Versailles and conquests prior to the invasion of Poland, 1933-1939
4. Italy's (Mussolini's) conquests of the 1930s
5. Japanese conquests prior to Pearl Harbor
6. US attempts of neutrality in the 1930s and early 1940s
   1. Neutrality Act of 1935
   2. Neutrality Act of 1936
   3. Neutrality Act of 1937
   4. Neutrality Act of 1939
   5. Lend-Lease of Military Aid