World War Looms

Chapter 24

Bell Ringer: What is this cartoon saying?

The spread of Nationalism in Europe.Treaty of VersaillesStalin & the Soviet

UnionTotalitarian

The rise of FascismMussolini & ItalyFascismHitler & GermanyAryan cultureLebensraum

Militarism in JapanTojo in Japanmilitarism

Civil War in SpainFrancisco Franco

United States ResponseIsolationismNeutrality Acts

Here at homeAxis PowersU.S. DefenseThird term

The Great Arsenal of DemocracyLend-Lease PlanGerman wolf packs

FDR Plans for WarThe Atlantic Charter

The Soviet Union Declares Neutrality

By March 1939,German troops occupy rest of Czechoslovakia

Hitler eyes Poland – would bring two-front war

Stalin & Hitler sign nonaggression pact—will not attack each other

Sign second, secret pact agreeing to divide Poland between them

Soldiers in foxhole

Blitzkrieg in Poland

Sept. 1939, Hitler overruns Poland in blitzkrieg, lightning war

Germany annexes western Poland; U.S.S.R. attacks, annexes east; Poland ceased to exist

On September 3, 1939 in response to the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany.

The Phony WarFrench, British

soldiers on Maginot Line face Germans in sitzkrieg (sitting war)

Stalin annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; defeats Finland

1940, Hitler invades Denmark, Norway, then Low Countries

The Fall of FranceBritish, French

trapped on Dunkirk; ferried to safety in UK

1940, Italy invades France from south; Germans approach Paris

France falls; Germans occupy northern France

Nazi puppet government set up in southern France

General Charles de Gaulle sets up government-in-exile in England

The Battle of Britain

Summer 1940, Germany prepares fleet to invade Britain

Battle of Britain—German planes bomb British targets

Britain uses radar to track, shoot down German planes

Hitler calls off invasion of Britain

Germans, British continue to bomb each other’s cities

Luftwaffe bombing raids over Britain - 1940

AMERICA MOVES TOWARD WAR

•Roosevelt pushes Congress to pass the cash and carry policy

•Germany, Italy and Japan sign a mutual defense treaty, The Tripartite Pact (Axis Powers)

•The Selective Service is enacted; boosted defense spending

•1940 Roosevelt proposes the Lend Lease Act

•June 1941 Hitler breaks agreement with Soviet Union and invades

•Germany sub attacks on U.S. ships

• Churchill and Roosevelt meet for the Atlantic Charter- Allied Nations; undeclared naval war with Germany

The attack on Pearl Harbor

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A Day that will live in Infamy

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Timeline of Pearl Harbor

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Bits and Pieces Japan had already

invaded China, ManchuriaIndochina

U. S. cuts off trade with Japan- no fuel or oil

Tojo orders navy to prepare for an attack

180 warplanes attack Pearl Harbor

Killed 2,403 Americans; sank or damaged 21 ships; including 8 battleships; 300 aircraft damanged

Roosevelt addressed Congress, “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date that will live in infamy…”