tuesday 2/19/13

Quiz tomorrow

1920's topics to discuss

  • Treaty of Versailles-
    • changes in the European map
    • separated Austria, and Hungry
    • aimed at punishing Germany
    • 14 Points
    • compromise between France and US
    • Great Britain was the midater
    • Germany lost land to:
      • France
      • Russia,
      • Poland,
      • Belgium,
      • Denmark,
      • Czechoslovakia (was given back by France)
    • German's military
      • Reduced to 100,000
      • no tanks
      • no air force
      • only allowed 6 capital naval ships
      • no Submarines
      • Rhineland (DMZ- demilitarize zone)
      • Rhineland was used as a buffer zone to make sure France didn't get invaded
    • Financial:
      • lose of vital industrial territory
      • big blow to German Economy
      • Germany had to pay $33 billion
    • General
      • war guilt clause
        • Germany had to take fault
      • league of nation was set up to keep world peace
  • League of Nations-
    • now know as United Nations
    • world wide peace group
    • US never joined
    • US created it
    • Has a military now
    • didn't step into WW2
    • 100% approval
  • Isolationism "Return to Normalcy"-
    • Stay out of foreign affairs
    • Harden wanted to return to normalcy
    • Wilson and Cox wanted joined the League of Nations
    • didn't want to get into another European war
  • Washington Naval Conference
    • 4 Power pact-
      • US, Britain, France, and Japan signed it in1921
      • saying would leave colonies alone and wouldn't get anymore
    • 5 Power pact-
      • Great Britain, US, Japan, France, and Italy
      • reduce naval size
      • prevent arms race
      • limited construction of battleships cruisers and air craft carries
    • 9 Power Pact-
      • US, Japan, China, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal
      • made sure that china was an open door for trading
  • Kellog Brand Pact-
    • Outlawed war
    • Japan, US, Britain, France other major countries
  • Great Depression-
    • world wide depression
    • lead to radical people coming to power
    • Helped Hitler become popular
    • Japan-
      • invade northern part of china in 1931
      • US stopped trading with Japan
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