PG- 54 WWII BeginsPG- 54 WWII Begins*Please remember that “*” means *Please remember that “*” means you DO NOT have to write it down. you DO NOT have to write it down. These are NOTES for Mrs. Rousseau!These are NOTES for Mrs. Rousseau!

Pre-War Foreign Policy-we focused on domestic issues

-extreme anti-war feelings

“Merchants of Death”- greedy bankers & arms dealers dragged the US into WWI

-FDR’s Good Neighbor policy in Latin America-

-Neutrality Acts

forbids arms sales or loans to warring nations

-1937 Roosevelt gives Quarantine speech isolationist, alternative to war

Prelude to War-Japanese Aggression: *need to

expand 4 a growing population

Manchuria, China, *militarist launched a surprise attack & seized control, 2xs as big as TX, rich

China

Emperor Hirohito----Hideki Tojo

-Italy____________________Fascism : gov’t that places interest

of the state above individualsBenito Mussolini , appealed to I’s

wounded pride, played on the fear of economic collapse & communism

Prelude to War

-Rise of Germany

Failed Weimar Republic

Hitler: *Jobless WWI Vet, joins Socialist “Nazi Party”, become leader

- promises to bring G out of Great Depression

- Wrote “Mien Kampf”= “My Struggle”: plan of action 4 Nazi Party, Extreme Nationalism

- Born in Austria, had a dream of uniting all G speaking peoples into a great Empire & enforcing Purification (to form a Master race)

-Anticommunism

Adolph Hitler & Third Reich:

(3rd G Empire, 1000 Year Reign)

Nazi Political Party #1 1932

- *Many unemployed turned to H as last hope, joined his “Storm Trooper” army 1933: H appointed Chancellor

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V58CXaGzOkQ

Lil hitler: Adult swim

Prelude to War

-Russia (USSR) Soviet Union

Joseph Stalin “Man of Steel”

-Establishes Communist Gov’t

*Gov’t Controls EVERYTHING

*Stalin wanted to establish a Great Industrial Nation, bigger than the US

*Enacted famous 5 year plan,1937- SU was 2nd only to the US as a great Industrial Power

*Caused over 13 Million Deaths by working people to death, great famines

Appeasement-Kellogg-Briand Pact

-Hoover-Stimson Doctrine

refuse to recognize lands taken by force

-German rearmament

-Taking of the Rhineland

-Austria

-Munich Peace Conference

-American Neutrality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gOffRA4Zbs

Appeasement :Giving up principles to pacify an Aggressor-Kellogg-Briand Pact ;war cannot

be used as an instrument of Foreign Policy

-Hoover-Stimson Doctrine

refuse to recognize lands taken by force

-German rearmament: Drop out of League of Nations

-Taking of the Rhineland ->

->-Munich Peace Conference, appeased G in order to maintain Peace once again, H promises it would be last territorial demand

*Winston Churchill, ‘It was a shameful policy, B & F choose btw war & dishonor, They choose dishonor, they WILL have war.”

American Neutrality

Europe at War

-Japanese are invading China, 1937

-Germany annexes Austria, 1938

why?: 1.land 2.A’s are G speaking & many are okay with it

*The world does NOTHING

-Germany takes Czechoslovakia, 1938 – and turns his eyes to Poland – could mean a conflict w/SU (Russia)

-Germany-Russia sign non-aggression treaty, 1939 – will not attack each other, but will secretly divide Poland

-Germany attacks Poland Sept. 1, 1939- Blitzkrieg

-France, England declare war

Blitzkrieg-”lightning warfare”

-heavy use of machinery and aircraft- many advances in military Technology

-quick victory over Poland

-not a lot of fighting after capture of Poland , waiting to see what H would do

-Phony War begins

Maginot Line –system of forts,

Siegfried Line

-Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium- to build bases there to attack Britain

-Invasion of France

-Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk

-France signs surrender, June 1940

*Entire world watched, as H handed his Terms of Surrender

Blitzkrieg

-lightning warfare

-heavy use of machinery and aircraft

-quick victory over Poland

-Phony War begins

Maginot Line

Siegfried Line

-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: 2,000 planes, for 2 months, every night

-RAF Royal Air Force defends British homeland: thanks to Radar

-”Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”-to the RAF

Winston Churchill GB Prime Minister

-Germany never launches invasion of Britain: but both continue to bomb one another to disrupt production & break civilian morale

““Never forget that everything Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was Hitler did in Germany was

legal.” legal.” ― ― Martin Luther King Jr.