HIST 151 Lecture 25 Outline of Last Lecture I NLRA Wagner Act Magna Carta of Labor II Fair Labor Standard Act III Dust Bowl IV Court Packing Outline of Current Lecture I Nye Committee findings II 1930s Neutrality Acts III Munich in 1938 Appeasement and Peace for our time IV Blitzkrieg Current Lecture Nye Committee findings Nye was a Senator at the head of the Investigation of Munitions Committee which was trying to find out the reasoning behind why the US entered WWI They insisted that the munitions industry was to blame for our part in the war because they pressured us to enter so they would make money This fueled the idea of isolationism 1930s Neutrality Acts These essentially placed embargos on trading war materials to countries at war and prohibited loaning money to such countries in an attempt to stay out of conflict Munich in 1938 Appeasement and Peace for our time Hitler signed a document after he invaded Czechoslovakia saying he wouldn t invade any other countries The English believed this meant there would be peace BUT Hitler secretly made a pact with his arch nemesis Stalin to spit Poland England had a treaty with Poland so this pulled them into the war Blitzkrieg These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute The German air campaign against several different countries but the most notable is Britain The Blitz on England was called the Battle of Britain and was an ongoing air raid by the Germans from 1940 to 1941 England mostly places like London were bombed over and over again The longest consecutive was 57 nights
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