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.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
War for Europe & North Africa
1. To what did Roosevelt and Churchill agree early in the war?
That Germany and Italy posed a greater threat than Japan, Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike against Hitler.
2. Why was winning the Battle of the Atlantic so crucial to the fortunes of the Allies?
Because Britian depended on supplies from the sea. The 3,000-mile-long shipping lanes from North America were her lifeline. Hitler knew that if he could cut off that lifeline, Britian would be starve for submission.
3. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad so important?
Because it was the first great turning point for the Allies to see victories on land as well as at sea.
4. What happened in the war in North Africa?
Allied troops, of mostly Americans, went to Africa to fight and win to be "masters of the North African shores".
5. What happened after the Allies invaded Italy?
Mussolini resigned and Italy cheered because they thought the war was over however Hitler had a different plan.
That Germany and Italy posed a greater threat than Japan, Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike against Hitler.
2. Why was winning the Battle of the Atlantic so crucial to the fortunes of the Allies?
Because Britian depended on supplies from the sea. The 3,000-mile-long shipping lanes from North America were her lifeline. Hitler knew that if he could cut off that lifeline, Britian would be starve for submission.
3. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad so important?
Because it was the first great turning point for the Allies to see victories on land as well as at sea.
4. What happened in the war in North Africa?
Allied troops, of mostly Americans, went to Africa to fight and win to be "masters of the North African shores".
5. What happened after the Allies invaded Italy?
Mussolini resigned and Italy cheered because they thought the war was over however Hitler had a different plan.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Mobilizing for WWII
1. Selective Service System
It expanded the draft and eventually provided anoter 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces' needs.
2. Women
Under the Marshall's bill women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions.
3. Minorities
They were restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizen rights, some members of these groups questions whether it was their war to fight.
4. Manufacturers
They all started making war materials.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
To bring the scientist into the war. To work on spurred improvements in sonar and radar, new technologies for locating submarines underwater. Also in making the atomic bomb.
6 Entertainment Industry
They created the Manhattan Project which became a code for any nationwide research.
7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
It fought the inflation by freezing prices on most goods. While Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before.
8. War Production Board (WPB)
They decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocate raw materials to key industries.
9. Rationing
Households recieved ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meats, shoes, sugar, coffee and gasoline.
It expanded the draft and eventually provided anoter 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces' needs.
2. Women
Under the Marshall's bill women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions.
3. Minorities
They were restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods and reservations and denied basic citizen rights, some members of these groups questions whether it was their war to fight.
4. Manufacturers
They all started making war materials.
5. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
To bring the scientist into the war. To work on spurred improvements in sonar and radar, new technologies for locating submarines underwater. Also in making the atomic bomb.
6 Entertainment Industry
They created the Manhattan Project which became a code for any nationwide research.
7. Office of Price Administration (OPA)
It fought the inflation by freezing prices on most goods. While Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before.
8. War Production Board (WPB)
They decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocate raw materials to key industries.
9. Rationing
Households recieved ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meats, shoes, sugar, coffee and gasoline.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Japan and U.S. Relations in 1941
Document A
-This is when Japan was talking to Germany and Italy about how to take over the world.
-That Japan is planning on how to take down America and England.
Document B
-How Japan is circling America in the ocean.
-How America is choosing whether or not to care and protest.
Document C
-That Japan is talking with the other Axis powers of how they tried to talk to America
-Also how Japan tried to negotiate with an unbendable America.
Document D
-This is the Japanese Prime Minister talking about either America or Britian
-He is mentioning them like he has to make sure that he has their trust or something.
Document E
-This document was saying that President Roosevelt was calling war on Japan.
-Also it was informing the American people that Japan was dicieving us and didn't really want peace with America.
-This is when Japan was talking to Germany and Italy about how to take over the world.
-That Japan is planning on how to take down America and England.
Document B
-How Japan is circling America in the ocean.
-How America is choosing whether or not to care and protest.
Document C
-That Japan is talking with the other Axis powers of how they tried to talk to America
-Also how Japan tried to negotiate with an unbendable America.
Document D
-This is the Japanese Prime Minister talking about either America or Britian
-He is mentioning them like he has to make sure that he has their trust or something.
Document E
-This document was saying that President Roosevelt was calling war on Japan.
-Also it was informing the American people that Japan was dicieving us and didn't really want peace with America.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
America Moves Toward War
1. What did the 1939 Neutrality Act allow?
It allowed the cash-and-carry policy go into affect.
2. Who were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy and Japan.
3. What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
It was the only thing to do to prevent the fire from spreading to your own property.
4. What pledges were contained in the Atlantic Charter?
Collective security, disarment, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas.
5. Who were the Allies?
The nations that fought the Axis Powers.
6. What did the attack at Pearl Harbor do to the U.s. Pacific fleet?
It killed 2,403, wounded 1,178, sunk or dmaged 21 ships, including 8 battleships which was nearly the whole U.S. Pacific fleet.
7. Why did Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.?
Because Congress quickly approved for Roosevelt's request to declare war on Japan.
It allowed the cash-and-carry policy go into affect.
2. Who were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy and Japan.
3. What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
It was the only thing to do to prevent the fire from spreading to your own property.
4. What pledges were contained in the Atlantic Charter?
Collective security, disarment, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas.
5. Who were the Allies?
The nations that fought the Axis Powers.
6. What did the attack at Pearl Harbor do to the U.s. Pacific fleet?
It killed 2,403, wounded 1,178, sunk or dmaged 21 ships, including 8 battleships which was nearly the whole U.S. Pacific fleet.
7. Why did Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.?
Because Congress quickly approved for Roosevelt's request to declare war on Japan.
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.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
New Deal Essay Outline
How, and with what success, did the United States government try to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression?
The United States government tried to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression by the three Rs. The three things that Roosevelt came up with are Relief, Recovery and Reform, with Relief it was brought through the Emergence Bank act, the FDIC, and FERA. He brought Recovery to the United States through associations that focused on banking, farming, and labor reforms. Also Roosevelt thought of Reform through associations such as NRA, TVA, the Wagner Act, and Social Security which were used to try and focus on fixing with long-term actions and to build a future that would be better.
In the 1930s with presidents Hoover in presidency from 1928 to 1932 and then FDR in presidency from 1932 to 1940. The actions that Hoover took were to just sit back and watch the economy pick itself back up while the actions that FDR took were the New Deal, and the three Rs- Relief, Recovery, Reform. The impact of the New Deal on Americans was that they got jobs, got money and shut down the banks cut the business failures, however there were still millions out of work and homeless. The opposition to the New Deal is that it was too complicated and there were too many codes and regulations, and that government should not support trade unions and it should not support calls for higher wages- the market should deal with these issues.
The United States government tried to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression by the three Rs. The three things that Roosevelt came up with are Relief, Recovery and Reform, with Relief it was brought through the Emergence Bank act, the FDIC, and FERA. He brought Recovery to the United States through associations that focused on banking, farming, and labor reforms. Also Roosevelt thought of Reform through associations such as NRA, TVA, the Wagner Act, and Social Security which were used to try and focus on fixing with long-term actions and to build a future that would be better.
In the 1930s with presidents Hoover in presidency from 1928 to 1932 and then FDR in presidency from 1932 to 1940. The actions that Hoover took were to just sit back and watch the economy pick itself back up while the actions that FDR took were the New Deal, and the three Rs- Relief, Recovery, Reform. The impact of the New Deal on Americans was that they got jobs, got money and shut down the banks cut the business failures, however there were still millions out of work and homeless. The opposition to the New Deal is that it was too complicated and there were too many codes and regulations, and that government should not support trade unions and it should not support calls for higher wages- the market should deal with these issues.
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