PRELUDE TO PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR IIWORLD WAR II

The Rise of TotalitarianismThe Rise of Totalitarianism

Aggression by Dictatorships

1929- The Kellogg-Briand Pact

1931- Japan seizes Manchuria

1933- Hitler and the Nazi Party come to power in Germany

1935- Italy invades Ethiopia

1936- Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland

Americans were determined to stay neutral and avoid another

war in Europe. WWI had left many disillusioned

Mussolini and Hitler

The last Chinese Emperor becomes leader of the Japanese puppet state Manchuko

A Loyalist soldier is killed in the war in Ethiopia

American Neutrality

1934- The Nye Committee Report

The U.S. Congress passes a series of neutrality acts

1936- The Spanish Civil War

President Roosevelt tried to find ways to help the nations

threatened by Agression

1935- Hitler begins discrimination against Jews

Nuremburg Laws

Crystal Night

1938- Hitler annexes Austria

1939- the Munich Conference and appeasement

Picasso’s Guernica

Stuka Divebomber

First used in the Spanish Civil War

Jewish synagogue burning in Germany during Crystal Night

Jewish shop after

Crystal Night

World war II Begins in Europe

1939- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

the invasion of Poland; the “blitzkrieg”

the beginning of Hitler’s “Final Solution”

The Phony War

The Fall of France and Dunkirk

The Battle of Britain

The U.S. sends supplies to Britain

The Great Depression ends

The German blitzkrieg combined the use of air power, tanks, and infantry

British troops wait for evacuation on the beach at Dunkirk in 1939

British Spitfire fighter

British Hurricane fighter

German ME 109 fighter Messerscmidt 110 Bomber

War planes of the Battle of Britain