1. Appeasement and Isolationism
These are both IDs

2. Unit Objectives
To learn the causes of and events that led to war including appeasement and isolationism
To assess America’s role in the war before entering it

3. Appeasement and Isolationism
As the dictators rose up, no one stopped them because no one wanted to risk another major war—Completely different from WWI
Appeasement:
GIVING IN TO AN AGGRESSIVE POWER IN EFFORT TO
AVOID WAR (EUROPE)
Isolationism:
AMERICAN POLICY OF STAYING OUT OF WORLD
AFFAIRS UNLESS THEY HAD DIRECT IMPACT ON U.S.

4. Events that led to war Germany re-militarized the Rhineland (1935):
PART OF GERMANY ALONG BORDER WITH FRANCE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO REMAIN FREE OF GERMAN MILITARY (TREATY OF VERSAILLES)
Germany annexed Austria (1938):
AUSTRIA HAD ONCE BEEN PART OF “PRUSSIA” ALONG WITH GERMANY & WAS HITLER’S HOMELAND

5. Francisco Franco took over Spain (1939):
FASCIST, AIDED BY HITLER & MUSSOLINI
Germany took the Sudetenland (1939):
PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA THAT HITLER CLAIMED HAD GERMANS LIVING IN IT

6. Munich Pact (1939)
BRITAIN & FRANCE FINALLY DECIDED TO MEET WITH HITLER
AGREED TO LET HIM KEEP EVERYTHING HE HAD ALREADY TAKEN IF WOULD TAKE NO MORE

7. Munich Pact (1939)
The Allies recognized Hitler as a threat but were afraid
to do more because they were not ready to fight after years
of reducing their militaries—This was a delay strategy
German generals were prepared to oust Hitler if anyone
would have stood up to him at Munich—no one did, which
solidified Hitler’s control over Germany
By the end of 1939, Hitler violated the Munich Pact by
taking the rest of Czechoslovakia

8. Hitler and Stalin signed a Non-Aggression Pact (1939):
AGREEMENT BETWEEN GERMANY AND SOVIETS NOT TO GO TO WAR
Shocked the world because Germans and Soviets had always been enemies and Allies had been counting on Soviet help in defeating Germany if war broke out

9. Secret part of deal:
HITLER AND STALIN AGREED TO CARVE UP POLAND AT LATER DATE (EACH TAKE HALF); BOTH HAD LOST LAND AFTER WWI TO CREATE POLAND

10. German invasion of Poland (1939)
SPARK THAT STARTED WAR—BRITAIN AND FRANCE FINALLY DECLARED WAR
SOVIETS TOOK THE OTHER HALF OF POLAND BUT LATER JOINED ALLIES IN 1941 AFTER GERMANY INVADED THE SOVIET UNION

11. Main AXIS Powers:
Main Allied Powers at start of war:

12. Main AXIS Powers (This is an ID):
GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN

13. Main Allied Powers:
1939: BRITAIN, FRANCE
June, 1941: SOVIET UNION
Dec. 7, 1941: AMERICA