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Pre-War Foreign Policy
-we focused on domestic issues
-extreme anti-war feelings
“Merchants of Death”
_________________ Policy Roosevelt had with Latin America
_________________
forbids arms sales to warring nations
Good Neighbor
Neutrality Acts
Causes of WWII
-________________ extreme loyalty to one’s nation. Very strong in European nations.
- ________________ Undertaken by Germany, rebuilding of an Army
- _______________ British and French policy of giving Hitler land prior to outbreak of war
Nationalism
Rearmament
Appeasement
More Causes
• Germany breaking the Non-Aggression pact with Russia
• Rise of Nazism and Fascism
• Rise of dictators• Greed - Hitler
World War II - Leaders
Axis Powers• Italy – • Germany – • Japan –
– Allied Powers• England – &• France – • Russia – • United States – &
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Emperor Hirohito
Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill
Joseph StalinFranklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Prelude to War
-Japanese Aggression
____________ the first territory the Japanese tried to take over
China
-Italy – Benito Mussolini
___________ political movement typified by attempts to impose state control over important aspects of life: political, social, cultural, and economic.
Fascism
Manchuria
Appeasement
-Rise of Germany -
Failed Weimar Republic
_______ rose to power in the 1930’s, leader of the
Nazi Party
- _________ party that believes the Aryan race is superior to all others
-____________ led by
Joseph Stalin during World War II
Hitler
Russia (USSR)
Nazi
Appeasement
-____________
outlawed offensive war. What about Hitler?
-Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
refuse to recognize lands taken by force
-What had Germany been doing ever since WWI?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Rearming – rebuilding it’s military
Taking of the Rhineland – Hitler starts to make his move
-Austria, Anchluss
-_______________________– gave Germany the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia if Hitler would go no further
-What is America’s stand on the War?
Munich Peace Conference
Europe at War
-Japanese are invading China, 1937
-Germany annexes Austria, 1938
-Germany takes Czechoslovakia, 1938
-____________________, 1939, Agreement between Russia and Germany not to fight one another
-Germany attacks Poland Sept. 1, 1939
-France, England declare war
Non-Aggression Pact
Blitzkrieg
-_________________ another name for the German type of war
-heavy use of machinery and aircraft
- ________________ Germany’s Air Force
-quick victory over Poland
Lightning War
Luftwaffe
Blitzkrieg
-Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium
-Invasion of France
-Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk
-France signs surrender, June 1940
Battle of Britain
-Germany controls most of Europe
-Luftwaffe begin bombing of Britain
-RAF defends British homeland
-”Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Winston Churchill
-Germany never launches invasion of Britain
The European Theater – World War II
German Aggression
- Hitler Invades Poland
- Germany goes after Denmark and Norway
- Then Hitler moves to Belgium and the Netherlands
- Most Notable country taken over early by Hitler was France
European Theater – World War II
Battle of Britain
- German Luftwaffe vs. British Royal Air Force (RAF)
- Germany fails
Italy making moves as well
- Italians invade Greece and North Africa, Germany comes to Italy’s assistance
War Plans
-Roosevelt and British leader Churchill meet
-________ and ________ are top priority
-only an __________________ is acceptable
Why is this the only type of surrender that will be acceptable?
Germany Hitler
Unconditional Surrender
War Plans
-Battle of the Atlantic
convoy system
Liberty ship building program was producing great numbers of ships to supply war
-Allies begin strategic bombing of Germany to destroy war capabilities
Eastern Front- Scorched-Earth policy,
destroy and remove all useful supplies and facilities upon retreating
- initial victories in USSR turn into stalemate and the Russian winter stops German advances
-______________, surrounded in 1942 by the Germans, Russia wins
- The battle was a turning-point because Germany lost a great
number of troops and materiel that could not be replaced
Stalingrad
Africa/Italy
-Stalin wants another _________ to occupy Germany
-new “front” opened with invasion of northern Africa
-____________ and the _________ forces eventually defeated
-”Soft underbelly” campaign
wanted to attack Germany through _________
-German troops make Italian campaign last many months
“front”
RommelGerman
Italy
D-Day
-Allies had planned an invasion of the mainland, led by _______________
-_______________ June 6, 1944, plan to liberate France
-paratroopers invaded behind enemy lines, thousands stormed beaches of Normandy France
Omaha Beach
Utah Beach
-France liberated within weeks
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Operation Overlord
The End is Near-__________________Dec. 1944
last German counter-offensive
Hitler does not like it, but the Germans are now in __________
-massive bombing raids
-___________ wins another term as President
____________, Roosevelt’s VP
-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east
Battle of the Bulge
RETREAT
Roosevelt
Truman
V-E Day
-____________, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, Continue to discuss end of war
-Allied forces pushing toward _________
-death camps found and Holocaust is revealed
Big 3
Berlin
V-E Day
-___________ dies and _______ becomes President
-What does Hitler now do???
- Russia invades Berlin
-Germany surrenders May 1945
RooseveltTruman