u nit 1 outline assessment. h ow successful were attempts at “ hemispheric cooperation ” in the...

UNIT 1 Outline Assessment

HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE ATTEMPTS AT “HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION” IN THE REGION BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945?

What is this Question asking you to do?

Talk about relationships between the United States, Canada and Latin America…DO NOT DISCUSS EUROPE

Discuss policies and actions between 1933 THROUGH 1945…

In the analysis you should explain whether or not these policies/actions SUCCEEDED or FAILED


Common mistakes Focused entirely on Good Neighbor Did not specifically mention Hyde Park,

Ogdensburg, Havana Conference or Rio Conference

Did not explain if these policies/actions were a success or failure

Mentioned relationships/policies with European countries isolated from the rest of the hemisphere (EX: Canada and Britain)

SD were too general, need to have specific details


Specifics:

Good Neighbor Policy

FDR , Vargas, King, Cardenas, Peron

Volta Redonda Steel Mill

Washington Accords (1942)

Military base in Natal, Brazil

Brazil military fights in Italy (1944)

Standard Oil (5% of asking price)

Neutrality (as Hemispheric goal)

Lend-Lease money

Mexico fights in the Pacific

Beef trade with Argentina

US breaks diplomatic ties to Argentina

Pan-American Highway Havana Conference (1940)

Rio Conference (1942)

$ supported military dictators: Trujillo

Hyde Park Ogdensburg

DISCUSS THE DIPLOMATIC POLICIES OF TWO COUNTRIES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE IMPACT THOSE POLICIES HAD ON THE WAR/WAR EFFORT

What is this question asking you to do?

- Discuss the policies that The United States and Canada created DURING WWII

- Explain how those policies IMPACTED the war or the war effort- Discuss the success or failures of them- Discuss policies from the BEGINNING to the END- Discuss domestic (home front) and international

policies


Common Mistakes Focused mainly on the Good Neighbor policy Focused on policies before the US was

involved, or that occurred in the beginning of the war

Did not discuss the policies in the home front Did not accurately discuss the impact those

policies had on the war effort Supporting details were too general, not

specific

DISCUSS THE DIPLOMATIC POLICIES OF TWO COUNTRIES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE IMPACT THOSE POLICIES HAD ON THE WAR/WAR EFFORTSpecifics:

Canada United States

Hyde Park Ogdensburg Good Neighbor

Lend-Lease

Conscription National Resources Mobilization Act

Atlantic Charter(W/Britain)

War Production Board

Victory Bonds War time Prices and Trade Board

Taxes, War Bonds, Rations

National War Labor Board

Privy Council Act 1003

Dept. of Munitions and Supply

Office of War Mobilization

Local Draft Boards

Women in work force

BCATP Bracero Program and Women in work force

Yalta and Potsdam conferences

Assistance with the A-Bomb

Tehran Conference

Manhattan Project

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE TREATMENT OF JAPANESE-AMERICANS AND JAPANESE-CANADIANS BY THEIR RESPECTIVE NATIONS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

What is this question asking?- Discuss how the Japanese were treated

in the United States and Canada during WWII

- Compare, show how their treatment was similar

- Contrast, show how their treatment was different


Common Mistakes Did not compare and contrast, did one or the

other…or none at all Did not give each country equal representation Did not mention Hawaii Repeated the same point in every main idea:

Pearl Harbor Supporting details were not quite accurate, or

were mixed up with how they treated the Jews Supporting details were too general, not

specificEX: “Some guys took them to court and lost.”

DISCUSS THE DIPLOMATIC POLICIES OF TWO COUNTRIES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE IMPACT THOSE POLICIES HAD ON THE WAR/WAR EFFORT.Specifics: Canada

Racism and Immigration restrictions

Japanese Denied the right to vote

Racism and Immigration restrictions

Can. Detained more proportionately than the US

38 arrested by Royal Canadian military police by War Measures Act

Politicians wanted it on larger scale, Military did not

Military pushed for internment , politicians thought it was too harsh

Complete confiscation of property, detained for the entire war

Japanese were barred from fishing

Led the way Jan. 1942 removed all males 18-45 from West Coast (2 months before US)Feb. = All

Allowed relocation w/out help east of the Rockies, or assisted return to Japan. (1/2 go back to Japan)

Offer partial reparations with lots of “red tape”

Able to vote 1949

Offers apology

AFTER the US does

Pearl Harbor

Specifics: United StatesPearl Harbor Habeas Corpus

suspended for JA

JA = ½ Hawaii’s population no internment

FDR cancelled the labeling of Italian & Germ. As “Enemy Aliens”

Early Japanese success (Bataan DM) fear

Gen. DeWitt requested removing JA, most people were against it

Executive Order 9066 (no explicit reference to JA)$400 million in JA property loss

15,000 voluntarily left CA, (not received well in Midwest and East Coast)

Camp Manzanar Barbed wire fences, guard towers, search lights, machine guns

Camps were “little cities” with fire dept, newspaper, markets, police

Riot at Manzanar over stool pigeons

1943- Loyalty interogations

3,000 recruited into 442nd combat team fought in Italy

Slowly others released before war’s end

Hirabayashi vs. US & Korematsu vs. US

1948 $37 million in reparations

1988, $20,000 to survivors

Detention broke cultural issolation

ANALYZE THE MEASURES TAKEN BY ANY TWO COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS IN REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST.

What is the question asking? Discuss the actions taken by the United

States in reaction to the Holocaust Discuss the actions taken by Canada in

reaction to the Holocaust Were those countries affected by the

Holocaust to change their policies, if so how?

What impact did their actions/inactions have on the Jews?


Common Mistakes:- Did not give each country equal treatment- Information was general, no specific

details to back it up- Some issues were mixed up with Japanese- Some analysis not quite supported, if

actions would have been the same regardless of the Holocaust, it didn’t have an impact

- Focused on their fight in the war, but didn’t discuss their specific actions with Jews

Specifics: Canada


Anti-Semitism dominant

1938 – St. Louis 907 Jews, denied

1938 – St. Louis 907 Jews, denied

1946 Canadian National Comm. For Refugees advised to exempt refugees from restrictions

1938 – does not commit to refugees (Evian Conference)

1933-45 Canada admits > 5,000 Jews (Worst record of Amer.)

1938 – FDR calls Evian conference on Refugees

Unmoved and still hostile to Jews

Blair: “None is too many”

1945-47 immigration remained tight amongst pressure

Jews hid identity in order to get jobs

King: “Not a Canadian Problem”

1941-51 admitted 16,000 refugees

Solution: Defeat Germany

ANALYZE THE MEASURES TAKEN BY ANY TWO COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS IN REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST. Specifics: United States

Combines Austira-German Quota to take more refugees

Mother’s Movement, Henry Ford and Father Coughlin

Emergency Committee to save Jews (held pageants, rallies, ads to put pressure on FDR)

Ex. Order 9417 – War Refugee Board, saved 200,000 Jews

WRB – does not bomb trains going to Concentration Camps

1938 – Denied the St. Louis ship, 907 Jews

Aug. 1942 find out about Final Solution…Dec. 1942 US makes it public knowledge

Newspapers did not give prominent coverage of the Holocaust

WWI – Newspapers covered stories of Germ. Atrocities (false)

US was afraid of supporting false rumors

1943 FDR calls for conference on Refugees in Bermuda (talk Palestine)

Romania – wants to allow 70,000 Jews ransomed…US gives it to Britain..who do nothing


Specifics: United StatesWRB saves 982 Jews, to Italy

Mar. 1944 WRB sends Raol Wallenburg to Hungary, saves thousands of Jews

Radio broadcasts in Hungary reminding Catholics that persecution was a sin

SS Eichman offers to stop deportation to CC in exchange for 10,000 trucks…collapse, but saves 20,000

Said technically could not pull off bombing Auschwitz…but they could

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