1. Chapter 22 A Time of Tyrants Isolation and Infamy
The Fight for Fortress Europe
The War in the Pacific

2. Tyrants Italy: Mussolini Fascism Il Duce
Conquered and annexed Ethiopia

3. Tyrants Germany: Hitler Mein Kampf Nazi Party Führer “Third Reich”
Rebuilt military

4. Tyrants Japan: Hirohito and Hideki Tojo Emperor Hirohito
Tojo led the military
Manchuria and China

5. Tyrants
Japan canceled Washington Naval Treaty
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

6. Tyrants
Soviet Union: Stalin
Crushed opposition
Millions died

7. Coming of War
German troops move into Rhineland
Austria
Anschluss

8. Coming of War Sudetenland Munich Conference Czechoslovakia
No one stands up to Hitler yet

9. Coming of War Hitler and Stalin sign Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
Hitler promptly invades Poland
Blitzkrieg

10. Germany Britain and France declare war but do little in Poland Denmark
Norway
Vidkun Quisling

11. Germany
Attack to the west
France
Luxembourg
Holland
Belgium

12. Germany
Luftwaffe
Dunkirk
Britain faced the Nazis alone

13. Britain Battle of Britain Daylight bombing Night bombing
British resolve
Churchill

14. Germany
Surprise attack on Soviet Union
Wehrmacht
Operation Barbarossa

15. Isolationism Traditional isolationist foreign policy War debt problem
Great Depression

16. Isolationism Most Americans sympathized with Allies
Neutrality Act of 1939
“Cash-and-carry”
America First committees

17. 1940 FDR runs for 3rd term “Your boys are not going to be sent...”
Republicans nominated Wendell Wilkie

18. Arsenal America the “arsenal of democracy” Lend-Lease Act
“Flying Tigers”

19. Arsenal
Atlantic Charter
Germany attacks American vessels

20. Pearl Harbor Japan continues to seize territory Douglas MacArthur
Japan’s chief naval threat was the U.S.

21. Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
Surprise attack
Successful attack

22. Pearl Harbor Missed American aircraft carriers
Americans able to rebuild
United American nation

23. Philippines
MacArthur forced to leave
Bataan
Corregidor
“Death march”

24. Japan Doolittle leads first raid on Japan Battle of Midway
Admiral Nimitz
Battle of the Coral Sea

25. Home Front Field and factory Surrendering of some individual freedoms
Expansion of federal power over economy

26. Home Front War Production Board Rationing Recycling
Many women entered the workforce

27. Home Front Tax increases Payroll deductions
National debt increased sixfold
Blue and gold stars

28. Fight for Europe Africa Mussolini defeated by British
Rommel and the Germans push back British

29. Fight for Europe Africa Bernard Montgomery
Americans land in western Africa
Operation Torch
Dwight D. Eisenhower

30. Fight for Europe Italy Casablanca Conference Sicily
Slow progress north through Italy

31. Fight for Europe D-day Eisenhower: Supreme Allied Commander
June 6, 1944
Normandy coast of France

32. Fight for Europe D-day Nazis resisted but could not repel invasion
Advance to Paris
Most of France liberated by end of 1944

33. Fight for Europe Battle of the Bulge Put a bulge in the Allied lines
Bastogne
Germans pushed back

34. The Pacific Island hopping Guadalcanal Marianas Philippines
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kamikazes

35. The Pacific
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Suicides

36. The Pacific Yalta Conference
FDR had just won re-election over Thomas Dewey
Harry Truman

37. The Pacific Yalta Conference
Formation of an international organization for peace high on FDR’s agenda
Misconception

38. The Pacific Yalta Conference FDR thought he could deal with Stalin
Misconception

39. The Pacific Yalta Conference
Stalin agreed to join the fight against Japan but wanted territory in exchange

40. Europe
Victory achieved in May 1945
Potsdam Conference
Atomic bomb

41. The Pacific Ultimatum to Japanese Hiroshima Enola Gay Nagasaki
Bocks Car

42. The Pacific Japan surrenders September 2, 1945
Fifty million had died in WWII