1. Prelude to Global War
                      
                       
Chapter 24 Section 1

2. Fascism and Nazism Totalitarian
Benito “Il Duce” Mussolini Controls Italy
The Blackshirts
Becomes Dictator
Invades Ethiopia
Adolf Hitler Rules Germany
Hitler joins National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis Party)
Attempted to take over Germany in 1923
Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)
Blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
Encouraged increase in military
Aryan race
Der Fuhrer (“the leader”)
Nazi party gains strength during the Great Depression
Hitler become dictator

3. Europe Goes to War German troops move into the Rhineland
Axis Powers – Germany and Italy
The German Empire Grows
March 1938, Austria annexed
Sudetenland
Munich Conference
France and Britain’s appeasement
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Poland
September 1, 1939 – Hitler invades Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany

4. Europe Goes to War (cont.)
Blitzkrieg (“lighting war”)
Hitler takes Poland in less than a month
Stalin takes half of Poland for the Soviet Union
Sitzkrieg (“sit-down war”)
French build up the Maginot Line
April 9, 1940 – Hitler attacks Denmark and Norway
May 10 – Germany attacks Netherlands, Belgium, and France
Take’s Paris on June 14, 1940
The Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force (RAF)
June 1940 – June 1941

5. Japan Japan Builds and Empire
Begins to take over China and other parts of Asia during the 1930’s and early 1940’s
1931 takes Manchuria
Tripartite Pact
Japan joins Axis Powers
1941 – separate peace with Soviet Union

6. The American Response FDR moves Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
America Remains Neutral
Isolationism
Neutrality Acts – “cash and carry”
American Involvement Grows
Selective Service Act
Roosevelt wins third term
Lend-Lease Act

7. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
U.S. warns Japan about further movements in Asia
December 7, 1941 – “a date which will live in infamy”
U.S. declares war on Japan
U.S. enters World War II
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.