6. What was D-Day?
It was the first day of the Allies invasion on Germany behind enemy lines, followed the next day by thousands and thousands of seaborne soldiers.
7. What happened at the Battle of the Bulge?
When tanks drove 60 miles into Allies territory, creating a bulge in the lines.
8. What did Allied troops find in Germany?
The death camps, where the U.S.S.R. found a thousand starving prisoners barely alive, the world's largest crematorium and a storehouse filled with 800,000 shoes.
9. What happened to Hitler? What happened to F.D. Roosevelt? Who became U.S. President?
He married his long time love and then wrote out a letter where he blamed the Jews and the generals for losing the war. Then he shot himself while his wife drank poison.
F.D.R. died on April 12, 1945 of a stroke and then Vice President Harry S. Truman became the 33rd president.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
World Events Set Stage for Isolationism
1. What was the Japanese reaction to the Treaty of Versailles? (pgs. 4 - 5)
There were some in Japan who believed that their country should engage the great powers and support the international system as means of obtaining the national resources and markets its growing economy needed. Others believed that the great powers, particuraly Britian, France and the United States, would never treat Japan fairly or with respect.
2. Read the pull-out box on page 4 entitled, "Japan Becomes a Great Power." Cite specific evidence Japan was becoming a strong power that rivaled European & American interests. And, why specifically was Japan threatened by U.S. actions?
They had pratciced extreme isolationism and did not interact with other countries economically in any way. Once they began trading with other countrys, however, their economic, military, and political power grew exponentially. They became a world power after this but felt threatened by the US's constant growing presence in the pacific, which interfeared with the imperialist policys Japan was beginning to develop.
3. Why was the Washington Naval Conference convened and what was accomplished? (pg. 6) (Note: Japan signs the agreement.)
Because the US felt threatened by Japan's growing naval power and the treaty being signed would limit naval importance in the future.
4. The Senate's willingness to ratify the Kellogg-Briand Pact relected two strong and widely held sentiments. What were they? (pgs. 6 - 7)
They wanted to avoid a war and wanted the ability to take forceful international action when necessary.
5. Why did Hitler enjoy popular support in Germany for most of the 1930s? Give three reasons. (pgs. 9 - 10)
Improved economy, reduced unemployment and fed on build up anger from WWI.
6. Japan voiced its intentions to invade China for what two reasons? (pg. 10)
As a retaliation of the japanese train station being bombed. And a self-sufficent and not need to rely on foreign trade.
7. Compare the Reichstag fire and the explosion on the Japanese railway in Manchuria. What did they accompllish?
The fire gave Hitler a reason to declare all German Constitutional rights invalid, which helped his druing his rise to power. The bombing of the train station gave the Japanese a reason to invade China, which helped them expand their power outside of their island nation territory.
8. Why was the united States unable to oppose Japan in the early 1930s with a significant military force? (pgs. 11 - 12)
Because the US had made the Japanese military smaller after WWI.
9. Describe the major similarities and differences among liberal democracy, fascism, and socialism. (pg. 8)
Fascists believe that govenrment should have total, unquestioned, rule over the people. Almost like the individual surrenders all of his/her rights to the government. Socialists are similar in the sence that they both believe in the lack of individual rights, hovever socialists believe that all citizens should be considered equal, and that all citizens should work for the betterment of society. Liberal democracy is the only of these ideologies that believes in and stresses the importance of the rights of the individual. This political system believes in a government run by elected officials who's job is to represent the views and concerns of the people whom they represent.
There were some in Japan who believed that their country should engage the great powers and support the international system as means of obtaining the national resources and markets its growing economy needed. Others believed that the great powers, particuraly Britian, France and the United States, would never treat Japan fairly or with respect.
2. Read the pull-out box on page 4 entitled, "Japan Becomes a Great Power." Cite specific evidence Japan was becoming a strong power that rivaled European & American interests. And, why specifically was Japan threatened by U.S. actions?
They had pratciced extreme isolationism and did not interact with other countries economically in any way. Once they began trading with other countrys, however, their economic, military, and political power grew exponentially. They became a world power after this but felt threatened by the US's constant growing presence in the pacific, which interfeared with the imperialist policys Japan was beginning to develop.
3. Why was the Washington Naval Conference convened and what was accomplished? (pg. 6) (Note: Japan signs the agreement.)
Because the US felt threatened by Japan's growing naval power and the treaty being signed would limit naval importance in the future.
4. The Senate's willingness to ratify the Kellogg-Briand Pact relected two strong and widely held sentiments. What were they? (pgs. 6 - 7)
They wanted to avoid a war and wanted the ability to take forceful international action when necessary.
5. Why did Hitler enjoy popular support in Germany for most of the 1930s? Give three reasons. (pgs. 9 - 10)
Improved economy, reduced unemployment and fed on build up anger from WWI.
6. Japan voiced its intentions to invade China for what two reasons? (pg. 10)
As a retaliation of the japanese train station being bombed. And a self-sufficent and not need to rely on foreign trade.
7. Compare the Reichstag fire and the explosion on the Japanese railway in Manchuria. What did they accompllish?
The fire gave Hitler a reason to declare all German Constitutional rights invalid, which helped his druing his rise to power. The bombing of the train station gave the Japanese a reason to invade China, which helped them expand their power outside of their island nation territory.
8. Why was the united States unable to oppose Japan in the early 1930s with a significant military force? (pgs. 11 - 12)
Because the US had made the Japanese military smaller after WWI.
9. Describe the major similarities and differences among liberal democracy, fascism, and socialism. (pg. 8)
Fascists believe that govenrment should have total, unquestioned, rule over the people. Almost like the individual surrenders all of his/her rights to the government. Socialists are similar in the sence that they both believe in the lack of individual rights, hovever socialists believe that all citizens should be considered equal, and that all citizens should work for the betterment of society. Liberal democracy is the only of these ideologies that believes in and stresses the importance of the rights of the individual. This political system believes in a government run by elected officials who's job is to represent the views and concerns of the people whom they represent.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Woodrow Wilson Fights for Peace
1. What was Wilson's 14th Point?
-There should be no secret treaties among nations.
-Freedom of the seas should be maintained by all.
-Tariffs and other economic barriers among nations should be lowered or abolished in order to foster free trade.
-Arms should be reduced "to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety, thus lessening the possiblity of military responses" during diplomatic crises
-Colonial policies should consider the interests of the imperalist powers.
2. What terms of the treaty specifically affected Germany?
It barred Germany from maintaining an army. It also required Germany to return the region of Alsace-Lorraine to France and to pay reparations.
3. What were the weaknesses of the treaty?
It humiliated Germany which created the war-guilt clause and it stripped Germany of its colonial possessions in the Pacific, which might have helped it pay its reparations bill.
4. Why did Henry Cabot Lodge object to the treaty?
He was suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggresion, even though it was voluntary. They wanted the constitutional right of Congress to declare war included in the treaty.
5. How did Wilson help bring about the Senate's rejection of the treaty?
Because he ignored the Republican majority in the Senate when he chose the members of the American delegation.
6. What circumstances at this time would eventually lead many Germans to support Adolf Hitler?
Because he showed his dislike for what happened in the war and that all those German's died for them to just walk away
7. Who is George Clemenceau?
A French premier that had lived through two German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions.
8. Who is David Lloyd George?
The British prime minister that had won reelection on the slogan "Make Germany Pay"
9. Describe the participation of Russia at the peace conference.
They didn't have any so therefore they lost more territory than Germany did.
-There should be no secret treaties among nations.
-Freedom of the seas should be maintained by all.
-Tariffs and other economic barriers among nations should be lowered or abolished in order to foster free trade.
-Arms should be reduced "to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety, thus lessening the possiblity of military responses" during diplomatic crises
-Colonial policies should consider the interests of the imperalist powers.
2. What terms of the treaty specifically affected Germany?
It barred Germany from maintaining an army. It also required Germany to return the region of Alsace-Lorraine to France and to pay reparations.
3. What were the weaknesses of the treaty?
It humiliated Germany which created the war-guilt clause and it stripped Germany of its colonial possessions in the Pacific, which might have helped it pay its reparations bill.
4. Why did Henry Cabot Lodge object to the treaty?
He was suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military action against aggresion, even though it was voluntary. They wanted the constitutional right of Congress to declare war included in the treaty.
5. How did Wilson help bring about the Senate's rejection of the treaty?
Because he ignored the Republican majority in the Senate when he chose the members of the American delegation.
6. What circumstances at this time would eventually lead many Germans to support Adolf Hitler?
Because he showed his dislike for what happened in the war and that all those German's died for them to just walk away
7. Who is George Clemenceau?
A French premier that had lived through two German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions.
8. Who is David Lloyd George?
The British prime minister that had won reelection on the slogan "Make Germany Pay"
9. Describe the participation of Russia at the peace conference.
They didn't have any so therefore they lost more territory than Germany did.
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