World Events Set Stage for Isolationism

1. What was the Japanese reaction to the Treaty of Versailles? (pgs. 4 - 5)

In Japan, some worried that the proposed League of Nations would be used to keep Japan as a secondtier power. Others believed that the great powers, particularly Britain, France, and the United States, would never treat Japan fairly. And 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 natural resources and markets its growing economy needed.

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?

EVIDENCDE: Japan modelled its navy on Britain's, its banking system on the United States's, and its army andconstitution on Prussia's. constitution on Prussia's. Between 1885 and 1920, its gross domestic product, or all of the goodsand services produced by Japan, increased threefold. Manufacturing and mining increased six-fold.
Japan was threatened by the US because Japan was interested in expanding into China, but US saw Japanese interests in conflict with theres.

3. Why was the Washington Naval Conference convened and what was accomplished? (pg. 6) (Note: Japan signs the agreement.)

It was convened when the 9 nations decided to limit some aspects of naval development for all contries, durring and out of war.

4. The Senate's willingness to ratify the Kellogg-Briand Pact relected two strong and widely held sentiments. What were they? (pgs. 6 - 7)

First, theU.S. was entitled to act inself-defense militarily, and second, that it was not required to enforce the treaty by taking military actionagainst those who violated it.

5. Why did Hitler enjoy popular support in Germany for most of the 1930s? Give three reasons. (pgs. 9 - 10)

He gained support by: blaming a large fire on German communists, improving the economic situation and reducing unemployment, and also restored national pride for Germans still humiliated by the defeat in World War I and by how poor they hadbecome.

6. Japan voiced its intentions to invade China for what two reasons? (pg. 10)

Japan needed China because: China was a means of obtaining rawmaterials and increasing Japan's power, and someone blew up a section of railroad owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway. Japan blamed the event on Chinea , and the Japanese military invaded.

7. Compare the Reichstag fire and the explosion on the Japanese railway in Manchuria. What did they accompllish?

They accomplished to boost public support for thease two nations from there own people.

8. Why was the united States unable to oppose Japan in the early 1930s with a significant military force? (pgs. 11 - 12)

We didnt invade because: The US had drastically reduced the size of its military since World War 1.

9. Describe the major similarities and differences among liberal democracy, fascism, and socialism. (pg. 8)

Both socialist and fascist leaders saw their systems as the wave of the future and thereforeas a challenge to liberal democracies of Europe and the United States. Fascism puts the economy under government control, and Socialism hoped to create a classless society that would end the exploitation of the workers.