Monday March 29 2010 Grab your clicker Sit

Monday, March 29, 2010 Grab your clicker. Sit with a partner that has the same birth DATE as you. (My birthday is June 12 so I’d look for someone with a 12) When finished with the reading quiz, please have out your AP Practice Test, and a sheet of paper labeled “Chapter 36 Notes” Remember : Chapter 34 -36 Test is Wednesday (periods 2 -4 -6) Thursday (periods 3 -5)

WWII : Before the U. S. NOTES: Ch 36 Hitler gained power in 1933 – - rebuilds army - retakes land lost in Treaty of Versailles - Sudetenland (Munich Conference) - Czechoslovakia / Rhineland / Austria Hitler made lots of friends : - Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, Ito (Italy, Soviet Union, Spain, Japan) (Non-Aggression Pact ; Rome-Berlin Axis Pact)

WAR STARTS September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland!! Blitzkrieg Germany needs ‘lebensraum’ Holocaust – extermination of Jewish / gypsies / handicap / etc. Neutrality Act 1939 “cash-n-carry” – Democratic nations can pay CASH for military supplies from US One was not enough, in 1940, Germany captured FRANCE (Britain’s last ally. )

Britain needs HELP! - Conscription Laws – passed September, 1940 US now starting to establish military, to be safe. - US protecting European colonies in Western hemisphere as part of Monroe Doctrine - Lend-Lease Act kept US out of war, but supplied allies. June 22, 1941 – Hitler invades Soviet Union! (USSR collapsed quickly, Hitler moved West to Britain)

Britain (Winston Churchill) and US sign Atlantic Charter, to help Britain in conflict US & Britain convoy ships – eventually sunk by U-boats of Germany ; caused Americans to want to fight Hitler (Americans died!) The US focused so much on the EAST, they forgot about the back door. December 7, 1941 : Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Oh boy oh boy! The US was HOT What do we do? Do we attack Japan? Or do we help Britain and attack Germany? ABC-1 agreement with British “Get Germany First” Keep Japan busy with minimal naval effort. - General Douglas Mac. Arthur used strategy: - Beaten in Philippines (Bataan Death March) 1942 - Island-hopping (leap-frogging) - Defeats Japan at Midway & Coral Sea - Beats Japan in Philippines Summer, 1942 June, 1944 June, 1942 April,