War for Europe and North Africa - Part II

6. D-Day was the day when we invaded Normany, France, on June 6th, 1944.

7. At the Battle of the Bulge, Germany tried to split allied forces, but they was unsuccessful.

8. Allied troops found concentration camps in Germany.

9. Hitler and his wife committed suicide, FDR died of a heart attack, and Truman became the new US president.

"Isolationism" and FDR (1935 - 1941)

1. Isolationists wanted to make it so that America wouldn't have to move out of its borders to keep itself safe. Isolationism is a misleading term because the policy is stricly militarily, and isolationists were still open to free trade with all other countries.

2. Some isolationists felt that there was no need to feel threatened by developments in Europe and Asia because they felt America was too powerful in many aspects to feel threatened by other countries so far away, and those countries were not powerful enough to be a threat to America.

3. The purpose of the Nye Committee hearing were to find the reasons why America got involved in World War I to help prevent intervention in World War II.

4. Two impressions that the Nye Committee hearings created were that big businesses were a major cause of the US getting involved in World War I and that Roosevelt was trying to get involved in World War II.

5. The purpose of the Neutrality Acts were to prevent the United States from getting involved in World War II.

6. Some Americans considered Roosevelt's leadership radical and dangerous because he was trying to get America involved in World War II as well as trying to get elected as president for the third time.

7. "Cash and carry" was a system to supply the allies without causing problems internationally. The allies would pay America for supplies so that they would not be in debt.

8. Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the United States because of the threat Japan caused for China and other countries due to their increase in aggression.

9. The purpose of the America First Committee was to support isolationists' ideas. This, as planned, would make America's feelings and ideas come before the ideas of foreign countries.

World Events Set Stage for Isolationism

1. The Japanese were unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles because they didn't receive any respect, which led to an anti-western nationalist sentiment in Japan.

2. In order to become a stronger power, Japan took the tactics of all other top countries and combined them. The U.S. threatened Japan due to the fact they were expanding westward into the pacific.

3. Japan's rising power was becoming recognized by the western powers, and they signed a pact to keep their navy under a premeditated number.

4. The Senate's willingness to ratify the Kellogg-Briand Pact reelected two strong and widely held sentiments, which were that the U.S. enjoyed the freedom to defend themselves and others.

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6. Chinese dissidents were said to have blown up one of their train tracks, and they wanted to expand their empire's self reliance.

7. Both the Reichstag fire and the explosion on the Japanese railway in Manchuria gave justification for unjustifiable things.

8. The United States stayed alone in order to prevent a new war from breaking out.

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Woodrow Wilson Fights for Peace

1. Wilson's 14th point said that a League of Nations would address problems between countries before they led to war.

2. The treaty affected Germany as it said that Germany would have no rights of negotiation.

3. By giving Germany no rights of negotiation, the United States was only angering Germany and was not doing anything constructive.

4. Lodge had objected to the tr34ty b3c4us3 it delayed Isolationism and could limit Congress's right to declare war.

5. He wouldn't compromise with the Republicans, and he was overcome by a serious illness.

6. Nationalism and the harassing of Germany could create fascism, therefore many Germans would come to support Hitler.

7. The French premier who was anti-German and part of the Big Four.

8. The British prime minister who was part of the Big four and used the slogan "Make Germany Pay".

9. Russia had dropped out of the war early, and was avoided by European Powers because it was controlled by a communist dynasty.