1) Why did FDR want to pack the supreme court? Did it work? Do you think this was constitutionally correct?
He wanted to pack it so that everyone would be on his side. So he filled it with republicans who didn't support the new deal. This did not work for him and i do not think this was right.
2) What is a theory about Amelia Earhart's death? Why was she important?
people thought that she crashed into the atlantic ocean or that the Japanese shot her down
3) What was Lend-Lease?
He was granted unprecedented powers to aid any country whose defense was deemed vital to the defense of the United States.
4) Discuss the BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
It would be the first air battle attack on England by the Germans
5) What were some of the reasons isolationists wanted to stay out of the war?
Everyone was still feeling the effects from WW1 and the great depression and most of the people did not want too go through that again.
6) What was the traditional definition of Fascism? Who were the Fascists of Europe in the 30s?
A military dictatorship built on racist and powerfully nationalistic foundations, generally with the support of the business class to keep their power.
7) Who were the Axis Powers?
Japan, Italy, Germany
8) In what year and month did Japan invade Perking?
July 1937
9) What were the aggressive actions of Germany and Italy before the start of WWII?
Germany takes Poland and then takes Austria. Signed a neutrality pact with Russia and then annexed Check
10) What are the two views of Pearl Harbor?
that we knew about about it but we underestimated the japanese army. second was that we knew about it but we just let it happen so that we could enter the war
11) What does Japan cite as reasons to go to war?
because their oil supply was cut off
12) What is the date of Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
13) What is the date of D-Day?
June 6, 1944
14) What was the cost of World War II?
38 million deaths
15) What was the Yalta Conference?
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin conducted the war against Germany. The idea was to clean up.
16) What did Stalin demand in return for his agreement to enter the war against Japan?
The soviets got control of Manchuria and Mongolia, and would get half of Sakhalm Island and the Kurile Islands. They would also get occupation in Korea as well as a vote in the United Nations.
17) What is FDR's legacy?
for being a indispensible man for when their was war and the great depression
18) Did the U.S. have to drop Atomic weapons on Japan? List the various PROs and CONs to this argument.
The U.S. did not have to drop the bomb. The war in Japan was however extremely deadly, they had a mentality that they should never surrender. The culture was very much about honor so the idea of surrender was horrible to them. They knew they were doomed, but surrender was far worse than death, and fighting people like this was terrible. They would run at you with no regard for their own life and could inflict terrible casualties this way. The bomb helped stop these terrible battles. The bomb was terrible but maybe helped stop thousands of American deaths, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of deaths. It was terrible and not neccesary, but the military in Japan probably happily welcomed it.
19) How did the Cold War start?
having both sides, the soviets and the americans built up their ammo of nuclear weapons as everyone started to get uneasy with the threat of the possibilites