Post on 12-Jan-2016
CHAPTER 16: WORLD WAR II LOOMS
WORLD WAR I• Treaty of Versailles – harsh terms for Germany and Russia
• Economies and democracies suffer
• Totalitarian govt. in the Soviet Union -> Stalin as leader
• Italy and Germany look for strong leaders
• Mussolini establishes the Fascist Party – extreme nationalism, state is more important than the individual
• Hitler (Nazi Party) is elected as chancellor in 1933
• Japan takes Manchuria (part of China) for its natural resources -> League of Nations does nothing
• Hitler buildups military
• Mussolini invades Ethiopia
• Fascist dictator Franco takes control in Spain
ISOLATIONISM • International conflicts in mid 1930s
• Most Americans do not want to be involved
• 1928 – Kellogg-Briand Pact -> signed by 62 nations -> war will not be used -> no plan to enforce it
• Thomas Jefferson had warned of “entangling alliances”
• Many Americans were fearful of all foreign elements
• Jews
• Catholics
• immigrants
AMERICANS WERE UPSET ABOUT WWI• Books = U.S. dragged into war by greedy bankers and weapons manufacturers
• Congressional committee shows large profits made during WWI
• What factors contributed to Americans’ growing isolationism?
ANSWER• Large profits had been made by banks and weapon industry during WWI
• Bitter about being in that war
• Dislike of the military
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FDR’S FOREIGN POLICY • 1933 – FDR is a friendly president
• Recognizes the Soviet Union in 1933
• Good Neighbor Policy – no intervention in Latin America
• 1934 – reduces tariffs
• 1935 – Congress passes the NEUTRALITY ACTS
• U.S. could not sell weapons or give loans to nations in war
• Mein Kapmf Video
Section 3
THE HOLOCAUST
HOLOCAUST• The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe
• More than half = Jews
THE PERSECUTION BEGINS• Nuremberg Laws = Jews stripped of citizenship
• Kristallnacht = Nov. 1938, Nazi storm troopers attack Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues
• France accepts 40,000 Jewish refugees
• Britain = 80,000
U.S. • 100,000 Jewish refugees
• Great Depression and competition for jobs
THINK-WRITE-PAIR-SHARE • When do you think it is right for the U.S. to enter a war? Why?
JOURNAL
• Do you think the U.S. would have entered World War II if Pearl Harbor had not been attacked? Why or why not?
CHAPTER 17
• The United States in WWII
SECTION 1: MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE
• Japan Times says America is “trembling in her shoes”
• 5 million volunteer for military service
• Selective Service Act provides 10 million soldiers
• Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) – women volunteers serve in non-combat positions
• Pilots, ambulance drivers, electricians
• “Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man”
DISCRIMINATION IN MILITARY
• 300,000 Mexican-Americans joins the military
• 1 million African Americans in segregated units -> no combat until 1943
• 33,000 Japanese Americans
• 25,000 Native Americans