Monday: No school
Tuesday: Notes
- WWII continued
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- War Finance Committee and War Bonds
- Over the course of the war, 85 million Americans purchased boneds totaling apporximately $185 billion
- Helped pay for the war
- It was an investment for US citizens
- As low as $18.75 per bond
- Ten years later gov't paid out $25
- Japanese Interment camps
- Forced to stay here
- Army barrack type houses
- Kids went to school
- Adults worked
- Causes of WWII
- Europe
- Treaty of Versailles
- The Great Depression
- Hitler's actions in the 1930's
- Mussolini's actions in the 1930's
- Failure of the League of Nations
- Policy of Appeasement
- Hitler's invasion of Poland
- Rise of nationalism
- Asia
- The Great Depression
- Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931
- Japanese invasion of China in 1937
- US
- Quit trading supplies(oil) with Japan in the summer of 1941
- Tough policies towards Japan in Fall 1941
- Pearl Harbor attack
- Effects on US
- Stimulated economy
- 17 million new jobs created
- Average wages increased 30%
- Middle class greatly expanded
- Federal power during the war increased
- Shifted from state laws to federal laws
- - important during civil rights era and Vietnam war
- More women involved in the workforce
- More rights for African Americans
- integrated troops
- German Nazi Party was completely destroyed
- Germany was broken up into 4 zones which became 2 countries
- Japanese cities were destroyed from bombing
- Japan was placed under military rule
- Most deaths ever in a war
- United Nations starts
- Cold War- US vs USSR
- Stimulated economy
- Europe
Wednesday: Test
Thursday: Study day
Friday: Test
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