Transcript Unit 1

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

HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE ATTEMPTS AT
“HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION” IN THE REGION
BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945?
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
HOW SUCCESSFUL WERE ATTEMPTS AT
“HEMISPHERIC COOPERATION” IN THE REGION
BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945?
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
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DISCUSS THE DIPLOMATIC POLICIES OF TWO
COUNTRIES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
AND THE IMPACT THOSE POLICIES HAD ON THE
WAR/WAR EFFORT
 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
EFFORT
Specifics:
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
Tehran
Conference
Manhattan
Project
Assistance with
the A-Bomb
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
DISCUSS THE DIPLOMATIC POLICIES OF TWO
COUNTRIES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND
THE IMPACT THOSE POLICIES HAD ON THE WAR/WAR
EFFORT
 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 specific
EX: “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
Politicians wanted
Royal Canadian
it on larger scale,
military police by Military did not
War Measures Act
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 Offer partial
w/out help east of reparations with
the Rockies, or
lots of “red tape”
assisted return to
Japan. (1/2 go
back to Japan)
Able to vote 1949
Offers apology 
AFTER the US
does
Pearl Harbor
Specifics: United States
Pearl 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
1988, $20,000 to
Detention broke
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?
ANALYZE THE MEASURES TAKEN BY ANY
TWO COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS IN
REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST.
Common Mistakes:
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-
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
ANALYZE THE MEASURES TAKEN BY ANY
TWO COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS IN
REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST.
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
Jews hid identity
in order to get
jobs
King: “Not a
Canadian
Problem”
Blair: “None is too 1945-47
many”
immigration
remained tight
amongst pressure
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)
WRB – does not
bomb trains going
to Concentration
Camps
1938 – Denied the Aug. 1942 find out
St. Louis ship, 907 about Final
Jews
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
Romania – wants to
allow 70,000 Jews
ransomed…US gives it
to Britain..who do
nothing
1943 FDR calls for
conference on
Refugees in
Bermuda (talk
Palestine)
Ex. Order 9417 –
War Refugee
Board, saved
200,000 Jews
ANALYZE THE MEASURES TAKEN BY ANY
TWO COUNTRIES OF THE AMERICAS IN
REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST.
Specifics: United States
WRB saves 982
Jews, to Italy
Said technically
could not pull off
bombing
Auschwitz…but
they could
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