3. The Versailles Treaty

4. A Weak League of Nations

5. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations y No control of major conflicts. y No progress in disarmament. y No effective military force.

6. The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied. German soldiers are dissatisfied.

7. Decadence of the Weimar Republic

8. France – False Sense of Security? The Maginot Line

9. Italy, 1922 Mussolini & his “Black Shirts” march on Rome Beginning of Fascist Dictatorship

10. The Great Depression

11. The Manchurian Crisis, 1931

12. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

13. Japan attacks Shanghai, 1932

14. 1933 Hitler Seizes Power in Germany F.D. R. elected President

15. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

16. Germany Invades the Rhineland March 1936

17. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

18. y y Carlists [ultra-Catholic monarchists]. y Catholic Church. y Falange [fascist] Party. y Monarchists. y Anarcho-Syndicalists. y Basques. y Catalans. y Communists. y Marxists. y Republicans. y Socialists. y Anarcho-Syndicalists. y Basques. y Catalans. y Communists. y Marxists. y Republicans. y Socialists. The National Front [Nationalists] The National Front [Nationalists] The Popular Front [Republicans] The Popular Front [Republicans] The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

19. The Spanish Civil War

20. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 The American “Lincoln Brigade”

21. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 Francisco Franco

22. The Spanish Civil War: A Dress Rehearsal for WW II Italian troops in Madrid

23. “ Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

24. The Japanese Invasion of China, 1937

25. The Austrian Anschluss, March 1938 The Austrian Anschluss, March 1938

26. The “Problem” of the Sudetenland

27. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, Sept. 1938 Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made deal with Hitler giving him Sudetenland

28. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: March 1939

29. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1939 The “Pact of Steel”

30. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

31. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightning War”]

32. German Troops March into Warsaw

33. European Theater of Operations

34. The “Phoney War” Ends: Spring, 1940

35. France Surrenders June, 1940

36. Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940

37. A Divided France Henri Petain

38. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

39. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis: The Tripartite Pact September, 1940

41. Now Britain Is All Alone!

42. Winston Churchill Led lone battle against appeasement Prime Minister at moment Britain plunges into War

43. Great Britain.........................$31 billion Soviet Union...........................$11 billion France......................................$ 3 billion China.......................................$1.5 billion Other European.................$500 million South America...................$400 million Great Britain.........................$31 billion Soviet Union...........................$11 billion France......................................$ 3 billion China.......................................$1.5 billion Other European.................$500 million South America...................$400 million Totaled: $48,601,365,000 U. S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941

44. Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”

46. The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

47. The Royal Air Force

48. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

50. The Atlantic Charter y Roosevelt and Churchill sign treaty of friendship in August 1941. y Solidifies alliance. y Fashioned after Wilson’s 14 points. y Calls for League of Nations type organization.

51. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler Invaded USSR Hitler’s Biggest Mistake

52. Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941 y 3,000,000 German soldiers. y 3,400 tanks.

53. Ultra Secret: Enigma Machine Great Britain & the U.S. are able to decode German & Japanese messages.

54. Pearl Harbor

55. Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

56. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

57. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

58. USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

59. Germany & Italy Declare War on United States