ch 19 assessment

Using Vocabulary.

Great Britain and France responded with an appeasement, a policy of giving aggressor nations what they wanted in order to prevent war.

Hitler followed a form of government called fascism where he was a dictator and ruled Germany.

Hitler was the dictator of Germany during the time of the Holocaust, when hundreds of thousands of Jews were persecuted and thrown into death camps.

Dictators, like Mussolini and Hitler, ran totalitarian states where they took away all the rights of an individual making it a nation that totally controls the life of the people.

Reviewing Facts

1. Europe’s policy of appeasement was a way that could help them stays out of war. An appeasement, or a policy of giving the aggressor nations what they want in order to avoid war, helped them state their opinion about war and advocate peace. In the United States, Roosevelt felt that they should stay neutral in the war. Like Europe, America, wanted to stay out of the war because of reasons like billions of dollars in debts that couldn’t be collected, and even the reputation World War 1 left them.

2. Soon after America’s decision to stay neutral in the war, Prime Minister Churchill asked the U.S. to loan 50 destroyers to protect them from Germany, and low and behold America responded to this request. Soon after America realized its Peril and Roosevelt ordered for 800,000 troops to be added to the armed forces. After Roosevelt was reelected, he suggested a lend lease policy, where the U.S. would lend goods to Britain. By the end of November 1941, very few Americans were preaching isolation.

3. Stalin pleaded with Roosevelt and Churchill for an invasion of Western Europe so that the Soviet Union could be released from the pressure of the Germans. Churchill responded by saying that Britain was just not ready to launch an invasion. After Churchill and Roosevelt formed an alliance, General Charles De Gaulle disapproved strongly of the United State’s recognizing a government in south France that was friendly to the Nazis. Stalin became an ally to the United States and Great Britain and the three relied on each other very much. Churchill later met with Chiang Kai-Sheck and agreed that Japan would be stripped of its Pacific empire and Korea given independence.

Understanding Concepts

International Alliances

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Military Conflict

2. Hitler’s first mistake was after he launched a second attack on the Soviets, and they fired back during the “cold winter” leaving the German’s weak and scared. Secondly, in Africa, America and British forces, pushed Rommel and his Afrika Korps into Tunisia, taking the reign away from the Germans and under the control of the Americans. Also Hitler lost Italy to the Americans and British as well. Thirdly, on “D-Day”, a million allied forces broke through the German Line finally making the Germans surrender in 1944.

Critical Thinking

1. Evaluating Policy: The policy of avoiding involvement in war may have been self defeating because then Roosevelt was forced to join the allies, which added to the increasing aggression toward the the United States.

2.The painting of V-J Day illuminates the many American citizens who were overjoyed to discover that bombing Japan was a success. Japan surrendered,the Axis Powers were no longer, and all American Citizens from every race and social class gathered together over this epic day in American History. Signs like “Japs Quit” where held up by many to highlight American victory.

3. The nation’s role in the United Nations illustrated the dramatic change WWII had made in long range US foreign policy. The US was the first nation to join the UN, showing that they were willing to uphold “faith in fundamental human rights” and  ”justice and respect.”

4. Analyzing Graphs

a. 1910-1920 was the smallest increase in the number of women joining the labor force. The largest increase was from 1940-1950.

b. In summation, when WWII occurred, the employment of women dramatically increased due to the lack of men available for open positions. Women filled men’s jobs when they were off fighting in the war.

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