history fuckers!!

[omgniceshoes]

WWII

• London Conference
 Sec of State Hull
 US withdrew
o Philippines
 Tydings-Mcduffy Act - promised Philippines would get their independence
 July 4, 1946 got independence
o Good Neighbor Policy
 US/Latin America
• trade, defense, friendship
o Japan
 1931 - invaded Manchuria
 1937 - invaded main land of China
 1939 - ended trade agreement with Japan
o Dictators
 Germany: Hitler, Nazi
 Italy: Mussolini, Fascist
 Russia: Stalin, communist
o American Neutrality
 Neutrality Laws
• strong American feeling of isolationism
 Quarantine Speech
• isolationists feared this, but war was inevitable
o Background WWII
 Ger AustriaCzech. (Sudetenland) Whole Czech  Poland
o American Preparedness
 Neutrality Act of 1939 - Cash and Carry
 Selective Service Act - draft
 Destroyer Deal - destroyers for military bases
 Atlantic Charter - statement of war aims by FDR/Churchill
 Lend-Lease Act - lease/lend and goods to nations necessary to the protection of US
o Pearl Harbor
 Tojo
 December 7, 1941
 Brings US into the war
o Paying of War
 Bonds and Taxes
o Civil Liberties
 Removal of Jap-Americans
o Victory in Europe
 Soviet Counter Offense - soviets part of allies now; destroyed Nazis
 D-Day - June 6, 1944; allied forces pushed back Germans
• regained France
 Surrender of Germany (VE day, May 8th)
o Atomic Bombs
 “The Manhattan Project”
 August 6th: Hiroshima
 August 9th: Nagasaki
o Conferences
 Therman (sp)
 Yalta **
• divide Germany
• punish war crimes
• discussed plans for the UN
 Pottsdam
• reconstruction of Europe
o Demobilizing
 Veterans
• US demanded vets come back, send new soilders
 GT Bill
• give aid to the vets
• money for school, medical care, job training, and cheap mortgage
 Industry
• US people complained about the scarcity of the items
• want gov. deregulated again
• inflation of prices
• workers strike
 Foreign
• 1946 Atomic Energy Act
o created a board or committee to control over the atomic materials
o Taft Heartly Act
 US people tired of doing without
 unhappy workers
 ANTI UNION
 provisions:
• employers to sue unions
• no closed door policy
• gov injunctions allowed
• no political contributions by unions
• leaders of unions, non communist
 **Unions immediately demanded the real of this act
o 22nd Ammendment
 president limited to two terms
o Elections of 1944
 Dewey vs. Truman*
 unexpected victory for Truman

o Fair Deal
 Increased the minimum wage
 Extended Social Security
 Program for low wage house
o Segregation
 “Dixiecrats”
 Truman de-segregates the armies
o Fear of Communism
 Smith Act
• crime to advocate the overthrow of the gov
• Alger Hiss
o McCarran-Walter Act
 made it easier to deport undesirable aliens
o Cold War
 Berlin was being split
• Russia wanted it all
 Russia tried a land blockade around Berlin
 Berlin Air Lift
• allies dropped supplies into the city
 Berlin War Erected
• east side- communist
• west side- free
• “Iron Curtain”

so just copy/paste that bitch into word and you’re set!

so today…it was actually very nice. senior sing in the morning, and it was fun! yay for carolyn’s lyrics which are so much better than last years (sorry but it’s true!).

V-I-L-L-A!

you know you love it whores.

no English really, history was CRAP, double chem. I have a major test tomorrow and she hardly taught us any of it. so she’s covering that up by giving us an open book/note test. sucks that it doesn’t help. grr for chem. teachers who are unable to teach. latin was fine, other than the fact that our group can NEVER get together. lunch, I had my last voice lesson, tear. even though we did sing some fucking awesome pirate songs. theology test was not that bad, and math was crap! because I got an 80 on my quiz because I wasn’t there the day she taught one part of the lesson and didn’t realize that I missed anything. so I got a minus 18 points. that’s ridiculous. especially because I wan’t even here!!!! biiitch.

Also, if you plan on going to mary’s prom on Saturday and you read my journal, just comment saying you’re coming. do it please or you can’t come.

(well you can, but I needed a threat of some sort)