ROAD TO WWII

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ROAD TO WWII

• Peace Efforts
• Militaristic Nationalism
• American Isolationism
• War in Europe
• FDRs Response
• Japan Pearl Harbor

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PEACE EFFORTS ISOLATION

• Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 war is illegal
• Latin America Good Neighbor Policy
• US pulls out of all Latin American Nations
• Platt Amendment rescinded, Cardenas ok
• Japan Disarmament Conference
• Five Powers Treaty 553
• Nine Powers Treaty Open Door Policy
• Isolation People want no war or ties

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Militaristic Nationalism

• Rise of Hitler Nazi, Mein Kampf,
• Chancellor 1933, Fuhrer, totalitarian gov.
• Rise of Mussolini Fascism, Duce
• Franco Spanish Civil War, Lincoln Brigade
• RussiaStalin, hundreds of thousands killed
• FDR recognizes Soviet Union 1933
• Japan Attacks Manchuria 1931,
• invades Shanghai 1933, Chiang Kai-shek

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Hitler and the Nazis
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Mussolini with Hitler
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Joseph Stalin
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American Isolationism

• Nye Commission It says banks and arms
• companies started WWI for profits
• Neutrality Acts Never Again
• No Loans to belligerents
• No trade, no arms sales
• No sailing on belligerent ships
• AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE
• ANTI WAR PROTESTORS college students

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Charles LindberghAmerica First Committee
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WAR IN EUROPE

• Hitler takes Rhineland(36) and Austria(38)
• Demands Sudentenland in Czech
• Munich Pact 1938 Peace in our time
• Chamberlain appeases Hitler
• Hitler invades Czech. 6 months later
• Jewish Persecution Nuremberg laws
• Kristallnacht, Jews no where to go
• Non-Aggression Pact Hitler Stalin(39)
• Hitler promises Stalin a chunk of Poland
• Hitler avoids a two front war

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Munich Pact Appeasement
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Hitler Takes Paris June 1940
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FDRS RESPONCE

• Change Neutrality Laws Cash and Carry
• Congress rejects until after Poland.
• BlitzKrieg Sept 1 Germany invades Poland
• April Denmark and Norway,
• France surrendered June 22,1940, Vichy gov.
• 330,000 Britain escapes through Dunkirk
• London bombed
• Warships for Basis 50 ships to Britain
• FDR We must help Britain. 10 b military
  budget
• FDR wins 1940 election against Wilkie
• Lend Lease (March 41) lend and carry
• German submarines 500,000 tons per month

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Tojo leader of Japan 1941-1945
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JAPAN AND PEARL HABOR

• Japans plan for Asian domination
• Japan attacks China, Rape of Nanking
• Tripartite Pact Japan, Germany, Italy
• American oil and metal Embargo
• MAGIC we break the Japanese code
• Japan attacks Indochina
• Hideki Tojo become virtual dictator
• Pearl Harbor Dec. 11. 1941 2400 killed
• A date which will live in infamy
• Germany declares war on America

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Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 19412400 killed18
warships300 planes