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.

FDR & the New Deal

1. Describe how people struggled to survive during the depression.
People were layed off for years on end with no work, therefore no food, and almost everyone had lost all hope. Also many went homeless.

2. How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to women? Children?
Men wondered the streets and some times left their familys because they couldnt find jobs.
Woman were looked down apon because they were working while men couldnt, and women always made less money too.
Children went to work too because schools closed. Most kids went around the counttry looking for jobs, like older men do. They also had bad diets and many were sick and in poor health.

3. Describe the causes and effects (on people) because of the Dust Bowl.
Farmers had broken up the top soil, destroying the parts hich held the dust down, and they never rotated crops, changing the plants type every other season. And after the wind picked up the dust it flung it every where the winds went, and so many farmers left their farms behind because they couldnt stand the dust.

Objective: Summarize the initial steps Franklin D. Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance.

4. What was the New Deal and its three general goals? (The 3 Rs)
The new deal was THe presidentail election of 1933 and

5. What did Roosevelt do during the Hundred Days?
He and congress passed 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation and in the first day, he declaired a bank holiday, where all the banks would be inspected and if they passed theyd be reopened and if not they would stay closed.

6. Why were Roosevelt's fireside chats significant?
They informed the public of what would help the plan move forward, and it also gave courage back to americans.

7. Describe four significant agencies and/or bills that tightened regulation of banking and finance.
Glass-Steagall Act: established by the FDIC to protect an idividuals bank accounts.
Federal Securities Act: 1933, which required corperations to provide complete and accurate information on thier stocks.
SEC: was put inplace to regulate the stock market.
FDIC: Provided federal insurance for bank acounts up to $5000.

Causes of the Great Depression Outline

Prompt: To what extent was the Wall Street Crash a cause of the Great Depression of 1929? Support your argument with specific examples.
The Wall Street crash was a cause of the great depression, but it was not the largest contributor nor the only one. Another contributor to the crash was that all the farmers had over farmed and there was no demand for all that food. Another was that credit was easily obtained and many people who got credit couldn't pay any back to the loaners. Also the unemployment rate sky rocketed after many of the veterans came back from WWII.

Outline:
Main point 1: The Wall Street Crash
a. The decrease in value of the stocks panicked people and they all tried to sell their stocks, all at once.
b.And the economy also droped drasticly because of this.

Main point 2: Farmer over farming
a. During the war the farmers farmed alot for the soldiers and after there was no market for it.
b.The prices plumited after no one was able to buy them and the farmers wernt selling.

Main point 3:Credit easly availible.
a. The banks thought it would be good to loan out money to the needy but they went able to pay them back.
b. The credit was barley worth anythin in the first place because the bank had nothing to back it up with.

Main point 4:
a. Uneployment went high after war because veterians had no jobs, decreasing the economy.
b. The people who had jobs were fired because the companies couldnt pay them.