1. How did the end of WWI, including the Treaty of Versailles, affect Germany?
The negotiations caused severe, economic, territorial, military, and psychological hardships on Germany.
- huge national debt from war reparations
- stopped trusting their government- nationalism- rise of dictators
2. How did the Munich Pact affect Germany? Why was the agreement made?
- gave Germany Sudetenland- Chamberlain meant to prevent another World War
3. How were the three Neutrality Acts different from each other? What did each allow? What were their goals?
The First Neutrality Act:- barred Americans from lending money to warring nations or selling them arms- didn't differentiate between aggressive nations and the countries they invaded
The Second Neutrality Act:- U.S. ships couldn't carry passengers / goods to warring nations- Americans weren't allowed to travel on ships going to or from warring nations- Cash and carry policy
The Third Neutrality Act:
- response to the invasion of Poland
- ended ban on selling arms to foreign countries (land and lease act- borrow goods and pick up shipments)
- allowed the Allies to purchase war goods as long as they paid cash and used their own ships (cash and carry policy)
- Americans opposed it
4. What events helped move Americans from isolationism to support for the war?
- Germany conquers France- Mussolini starts fascist govt. in Italy- Roosevelt subtly speaks out for interventionism - Lend-Lease Act- Pearl Harbor
5. What are the differences between the cash-and-carry and lend-lease programs?
"cash and carry" is where nations had to pay for the goods and have it delivered to them on their own ships, whereas in "lend-lease" weapons were sold, exchanged, lent, or leased to nations whose defense seemed vital to the U.S.
