HILD 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rayford Logan, Tripartite Pact, Axis Powers
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Wwii and the second wave of the great migration: cli(cid:373)a(cid:454) of the (cid:862)se(cid:272)o(cid:374)d e(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ipatio(cid:374)(cid:863, first wave during wwi resulted in about 500,000 black migrants from the south to the north. In the 1940s, about 2 million black southerners migrated north or west: about another million migrated to urban areas within the south. Events leading to wwii include: 1933: adolf hitler named chancellor of germany, 1935: italy invaded ethiopia (led to u. s. black support for. Abyssininans/ethiopians: 1936: beginning of spanish civil war, 1937: japan began undeclared war on china, 1938: germany annexed austria, 1939: germany attacked poland; germany and italy signed pact of steel. Tripartite pact signed: 1940: japan, germany, and italy formed a military alliance known as the axis. In 1939 and 1940, the u. s. government spent massive amounts on arms, firmly lifting the economy out of the depression: burke-wadsworth act of 1940 created the first peacetime draft in u. s. history, december 7, 1941 pearl harbor.
