Don't Know Much About History: Part II

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 he could get justices that were on his side. It was filled with republicans who did not support the New Deal. It did not work for him and was not constitutionally correct.

2) What is a theory about Amelia Earhart's death? Why was she important?
She was shot down by the Japanese, or she crashed into the Ocean.

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.
First aerial attack on England by the German air force. Nazi's decide to launch an invasion across the Channel.

5) What were some of the reasons isolationists wanted to stay out of the war?
They were still feeling the effects of the depression and memories of WWI, so they didn't thing WWII would be worth it. They didn't want to get into other people's affairs at the possible loss of so many people's lives lost.

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 brad support of the business class.

7) Who were the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan

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 took Austria-Hungary and Poland, signed a nutrallity pact with Russia, and annexed Checozslavakia. Italy invaded Albania, Greece and Eithiopia

10) What are the two views of Pearl Harbor?
We knew about it and were cocky about what the outcome would be, and the other is that we knew about it and we let it happen.

11) What does Japan cite as reasons to go to war?
Their oil supply was cut-off

12) What is the date of Pearl Harbor?
Dec. 7, 1941

13) What is the date of D-Day?
June 6, 1944

14) What was the cost of World War II?
38,000,000+ 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?
He was the indispensible man in the era of depression and war.

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?
The build-up of nuclear weapons by both the Soviets and the Americans.