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US History
Note Page 40 “World War II Begins”
By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School
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2. Pre-War Foreign Policy
- US focused on domestic issues
-extreme anti-war feelings
“Merchants of Death”
-Good Neighbor policy in Latin America
-Neutrality Acts
forbids arms sales to warring nations
-1937 Roosevelt gives Quarantine speech

3. Prelude to War: -Weak League of Nations US failed to join
Inability to use force to stop aggressive nations
France
- War damaged
- Need for security from Germany
- Strict enforcement of the Versailles Treaty
- Construction of the Maginot Line
Lacarno Treaty
- Pledge to keep the peace in Europe
- Kellogg-Briand Pact signed later

6. Rise of Fascism Combination of Dictatorship & Totalitarianism
Political, social, economic, cultural control
Mass appeal and propaganda
Nationalistic
Militaristic
Opposed to communist ideals
Wanted control through force
Appealed to upper classes and existing class order

7. Rise of Mussolini Black Shirts - Private army - Intimidation
Mussolini gains in popularity
Civil unrest
Mussolini appointed
- head of gov’t
- Dictatorship begins
- Civil liberties repressed

8. Rise of Nazi Party Adolph Hitler - German Workers Party
- Opposition to Socialists
Storm Troopers or Brown Shirts
Critic of Weimar Republic
Beer hall Putsch fails –
Hitler jailed
Writes “Mein Kampf”
- Nationalism
- Racism
- Lebensraum = living space
Hitler and Nazi Party seek to take power legally after Hitler’s prison term.

10. Rise of J. Stalin Joseph Stalin - Communist Russia - Replaced V. Lenin
Killed 20 million of his own in “Great Purge” for power.
Totalitarian State.
Five-Year Plans to industrial nation
Hated Fascism!
Will sign a secret treaty with Hitler / Poland.
When Hitler turns on USSR, they will join Allied Side…

11. Totalitarianism

12. -League of Nations ineffective
Japan’s Aggression
1937
-Japan invades Manchuria
-League of Nations ineffective
-Japan withdraws from the League
-Japan begins the conquest of China
- Wanted Natural Resources – Oil, timber, steel, etc….
- Feel they are racially superior over all of Asia

14. Hitler’s Pre-War Actions
-Starts the Rearmament of Germany, 1933
-violated Versailles Treaty
-Withdrawal from the League of nations

15. -Occupation of the Rhineland
-Alliance with Italy
-Annexation of Austria, 1938
-goal of uniting all German people
-Union was forbidden in the Versailles Treaty

16. Austria & Czechoslovakia
-Annexation of Austria, 1938
-goal of uniting all German people
-Union was forbidden in the Versailles Treaty

17. Hitler's Move:
-Czechoslovakian crisis 1938
-Sudetenland—contained Germans
-Munich Conference with other leaders of Europe
-Appeasement policy
-“Peace in our time”
-Six Months later takes it all / Czechoslovakia

18. PEACE IN OUR TIME!

21. Europe begins to prepare for war
-Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 1939
-Germany hopes to avoid a two front war
-Each pledges neutrality in a war
-Each gets a sphere of influence in eastern Europe
Invasion of Poland,
Sept. 1st. 1939
Captured country in six wks.
 France & GB declare war!

22. -Polish question
-Britain and France pledge protection
-Polish Corridor
-War begins on Sept. 1, 1939

23. -France signs surrender, June 1940
Blitzkrieg
 Lightning warfare
-heavy use of machinery and aircraft
-quick victory over Poland
-Phony War begins
Maginot Line
Siegfried Line
-Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium
-Invasion of France
-Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk
-France signs surrender, June 1940

24. Battle of Britain - Germany controls most of Europe
-Luftwaffe begin bombing of Britain over 100 days.
-RAF defends British homeland
New Technology – Radar

26. Winston Churchill speaking of the pilots of the RAF
-”Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Winston Churchill speaking of the pilots of the RAF
◊ Prime Minster of Great Britain
Germany never launches invasion of Britain

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The End
Note Page 40 “World War II Begins”
By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.