Week of April 3-7

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Monday- WWII movie summary/review

Tuesday- Watch WWII documentary

Wednesday- Watch WWII documentary

Thursday- 

1. Big Allies
   1. Great Britain, France, United States, China, Soviet Union
   2. Allied Powers:
      1. Belgium Denmark, Greece, Turkey, etc. 
2. US after WWI
   1. US never signed the Treaty of Versailles
      1. Wilson(D) vs. Congress(R)
      2. Join League of Nations or go back to isolationism?
   2. Republican Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election with a promise to "Return to Normalcy"
   3. The US went back to focusing on America in the 1920's and 1930's
   4. Washington Naval Conference 1921-1922
      1. 4 power pact- US, GB, France and Japan would respect each other's possessions in the Pacific
      2. 5 power pact- Signed by Great Britain, the US, Japan, France, and Italy
         1. designed to prevent an arm's race
         2. It limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers and aircraft carriers
      3. 9 power pact- Guaranteed Chinese independence and upheld the Open Door Policy
         1. signed by the US, Japan, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal
      4. Kellogg-Briand Pact- The Us did sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact Denouncing war
   5. The Neutrality Acts were passed by the US in the 1930's in response to the issues in Europe and Asia that eventually led to WWII
      1. They were caused by the desire to be isolationist in the US following WWI
      2. Passed to ensure that he US would not become involved in word conflicts
3. America First Committee
   1. US isolationism
4. Neutrality Act of 1935
   1. stop trading with countries at war
   2. Warned American citizens not to travel on warring ships- travel at own risk
5. Neutrality Act of 1936
   1. Stop loaning money to countries at war
   2. Did not include civil wars
6. Neutrality Act of 1937
   1. Cash and Carry system- weapons not included
   2. Also included civil wars
   3. US citizens were forbidden from traveling on warring ships
   4. Roosevelt believed that cash and carry would help France and Great Britain in the event of a war with Germany
   5. Quarantine speech- 1937
7. Neutrality Act of 1939
   1. Cash and Carry System- weapons included
   2. allowed for weapons trade
   3. US citizens and ships were barred form entering war zones designated by the President
8. Roosevelt believed that cash and carry would help France and Great Britain in the event of a war with Germany
9. Quarantine speech- 1937
10. Bases for Destroyers
    1. Passed in September, 1940 between the US and GB
    2. Fifty US destroyers were given to GB in exchange for land rights (for 99 years) on British colonies for naval or air base purposes
    3. Newfoundland, eastern side of the Bahamas, southern coast of Jamaica, etc. 
11. End of US Neutrality- Lend Lease Act
    1. The end of neutrality for the US came with the Lend-Lease Act, passed in March, 1941
    2. This act allowed the U.S. to sell, lend or give war materials to nations the US wanted to support
    3. US gave $50 billion($650 billion today)worth of supplied to Allied nations throughout the war
12. Selective training and service act
    1. September 1940- 1947
    2. Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register for the draft
    3. Extended to all men aged 18 to 45 once US entered war
    4. First peacetime draft in US history
    5. Draft boards were set up across the country
    6. Each male was given a number
    7. numbers were drawn out of a giant fishbowl
    8. that determined the draft order

Friday-

1. Atlantic Charter
   1. Signed in August 1941 between the US(FDR) and Great Britain(Churchill)
   2. Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
      1. Many similarities to Wilson's 14 points
2. WWII Major Battle/operations Timeline vs Germany
   1. Battle of the Atlantic -1941-45
   2. Operation Torch(Invasion of Morocco)-1942
   3. Operation Avalanche(Invasion of Italy)-1943
      1. Battle of Salerno(1943)
      2. Battle of Anzio(1944)
      3. Battle of Monte Cassino(1944)
   4. Operation Overlord(D-Day)- June 6, 1944
   5. Operation Dragoon(Invasion of southern France)-August, 1944
   6. Battle of the Bulge(Hitler's last major offensive)- Winter 1944-45
   7. Operation Varsity(Invasion of western Germany past the Rhine River)
3. German U-Boats
   1. After repeated attacks by German U-boats on U.S. ships in the fall of 1941, FDR announced that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to attack German and Italian war ships in the "waters which we deem necessary for our defense."
4. Convoy System
   1. Groups of ships