Today we talked a little about the test and then continued on to the PowerPoint.
https://mrbruns.ning.com/group/ushistory/forum/topics/wwii-test-info
---Stalin was going to be a priest and he changed his name to Joseph Stalin and he had his people kill millions of people.
---Nuremburg Laws made Jews second class citizens and removed their civil rights. Established the memberships to being Jewish and what they could do.
---Kristalnacht, “Night of Broken Glass”, Nazis burned, looted, and broke windows out of Jewish businesses and synagogues.
IV. Hitler's Treatment of the Jews
He thought that the German Aryan race was the master race and everyone else was inferior. He really hated the Jews and he put them in concentration camps and killed them off. He was never really sure what he wanted to do with the Jews so at first he separated them from the rest of Germany and then made them into slaves before eventually killed them.
V. Munich Conference-Policy of Appeasement
Hitler demanded the Sudetenland part of Czechoslovakia and they don’t want him to have this. They have a conference which decides to give Germany the land as long as Hitler promised not to take any more land. They appeased Hitler to prevent war.
VI. US Role in the 1920's/1930's
-Washington Naval Conference-Made the Navies of the countries that signed it be decreased to try and stop wars.
-Kellog-Briand Pact was the pact that outlawed war which seemed that it would settle disputes and never have a war again.
-Neutrality Acts throughout the 1930's- Said that the United States wouldn’t go to war with other countries and we wouldn’t trade with them if they were at war.
-Quarantine Speech-Speech that the peaceful countries need to come together and quarantine off the aggressive nations.
-Bases for Destroyers
-Lend-Lease Act
VII. Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
VIII. Outbreak of War--Blitzkrieg!!
-Japan and China- Japan had little resources so the military took over the government and they invaded Manchuria and then China because they had the resources and new markets for them to sell to.
-Germany and Poland
-Germany and France
-Germany and Great Britain
-Germany and the Soviet Union
IX. Pearl Harbor
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