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Chapter 27
The Global Crisis, The Road
toWar:
1921-1941
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Issues: US Between the Wars• How did the US see its
role in the world in the 1920s?
• How did the US react as Europe moved in 1930s toward war? [WWII]?
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America during 20s and 30s: Deep, Abiding Isolationism
1. Disillusionment of World War I2. U.S. avoids international commitments that might lead to involvement in another war.
3. Never again, Americans wanted to believe, would the United States send an army to Europe.
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US Mission in 1920s
• 1920s: U.S. diplomats sought to ensure world peace in two ways:
1. Disarmament [Not collective security-League of Nations]
2. Multi-national agreements
• Sec. of State: Charles Evans Hughes
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Washington Naval Conference [1921-22]
• Washington Naval Conference: military conference led by Sec. Hughes and held in Washington, D.C. from Nov. 1921 to Feb. 1922.
• Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations.
• It was the first major inter-national conference held in the US.
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Effects of Naval Conference• The Washington
Naval Treaty led to an end to building new battleship fleets.
• Numbers of existing war ships were destroyed.
• Some ships under construction were turned into aircraft carriers instead.
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US and German War Reparations
• Germany unable to pay $32 billion reparations
• 1924 Dawes Plan created payment plan with private U.S. loans
• 1929 Young Plan reduced reparations to $9 billion payable over 59 years
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Kellogg-Briand Pact [1928]
• General Treaty for the Renunciation of War.
• Outlaw war as an "instrument of national policy"
• “International kiss“ how to enforce?
• Signed Aug. 27, 1928, by 14 nations, eventually by 64 nations including Germany and Japan
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Great Depression radicalized the politics of Germany and Japan in the 1930s
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1930s: War Clouds Rise in Europe
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The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations
The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations
y No control of major conflicts.y No progress in disarmament.y No effective military force.
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Axis Powers of World War II
• European Axis Powers• Fascist Italy:
1922-1943• Nazi Germany:
1933-1945
•Militaristic Japan
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Fascist Italy
• Benito Mussolini [1883-1945] governed Italy as its Fascist dictator from 1922-1943. He was executed by Italians in 1945.
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Nazi Germany• Adolph Hitler [1889-
1945] ruled Germany from 1933, when he came to power through the political process of Weimar Germany, until he committed suicide in April 1945 in his Berlin bunker.
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The Road to War
• 1931: Japan Invades Manchuria
• Neutrality Act of 1935 • Imposed a general
embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war.
• It also declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk.
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The Road to War
• 1935 Fascist Italy invades Ethiopia [Haile Selassie]
• Neutrality Act of 1935 • Imposed a general
embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war.
• It also declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk.
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Germany Occupies the RhinelandMarch 1936
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Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936
The “Pact of Steel”
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Neutrality Act of 1936
• The Neutrality Act of 1936 renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months.
• It also forbade all loans or credits to belligerents.
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The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
Francisco Franco
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The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
The American “Lincoln Brigade”
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“Guernica” by Pablo Picasso
“Guernica” by Pablo Picasso
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Neutrality Act of 1937
• The Neutrality Act of 1937, included the provisions of the earlier acts and extended them to cover civil wars as well.
• U.S. ships were prohibited from transporting any passengers or articles to belligerents
• U.S. citizens were forbidden from traveling on ships of belligerent nations.
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Japan
• Hirohito ( 裕仁 ), also known as Emperor Shōwa ( 昭和天皇 ), (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989) was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.
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The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937
The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937
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Japan v China [1937]
• Roosevelt gave his Quarantine Speech in October 1937, a move away from neutrality and towards "quarantining" all aggressors.
• Japan invaded China in July 1937, starting the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
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The Austrian Anschluss, 1938The Austrian Anschluss, 1938
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The “Problem” of the Sudetenland
The “Problem” of the Sudetenland
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Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938
Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business
with.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
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Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939
Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939
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The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939
The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939
Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Stalin and Hitler agreed to dividePoland and to carve Europe into spheres of influence.
• The Second World War began only days later.