A total eclipse of the individual Totalitarianism A total eclipse of the individual Militarism Dictatorship Censorship Repression Photo by betelgeux

Dictatorships SOVIET UNION ITALY GERMANY JAPAN

The Soviet Union Joseph Stalin

Fascist Italy Benito Mussolini Map Art By DrRandomFactor

Statue of Romulus and Remus in Rome, GA Roman Imagery Fasces Statue of Romulus and Remus in Rome, GA

Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

Imperial Japanese Army Japanese Militarism Hideki Tojo Flag of the Imperial Japanese Army

Japanese Expansion Map Credit: BBC

German Expansion Map Credit: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=2884

Appeasement Photo by eperales

Chamberlain and Hitler The Munich Agreement Chamberlain and Hitler

“Peace for our time…”

Churchill on Munich The Western democracies “are weighed in the balance and found wanting.” “And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.” Churchill’s Speech: http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/Munich.html

Hitler Invades Poland September, 1939 Map Credit: Listowy

Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) Panzer

Fall of France 1940 Made by Niels Bosboom.

Battle of Britain 1940 Air Battles Military Targets Cities/Civilians

Axis Pact Japan, Germany, and Italy agree to cooperate in their efforts… They further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the Contracting Powers is attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict.

The World is Falling Apart

That Sucked! American Wounded Making Way To First Aid Station In The Village Of Marne During German Attack by George Matthews Harding Here Harding shows the ever-present human toll of war along with two of the innovations of the Great War, the airplane and barbed wire. Source: http://www.history.army.mil/html/artphoto/pripos/wwi1.html

aka, “Non-Intervention” “Isolationism” aka, “Non-Intervention”

NO ARMS TO BELLIGERENTS Neutrality Acts 1936, 1937, 1939 NO ARMS TO BELLIGERENTS Photo by *janine*

The Arsenal of Democracy 1939-1941 Cash and Carry (1939) Destroyers for Bases (1940) Lend-Lease (1941) Photo by mr.smashy

Pay cash and carry it home, yourself. 1939 Pay cash and carry it home, yourself.

Destroyers for Bases 1940 Map: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/carribeanweb/blankmap.htm Destroyers to Britain in exchange for naval bases in the Caribbean

Lend-Lease Act 1941 Let the British borrow military equipment FURTHER READING: FDR Press Conference December 17, 1940 Photo by peasap

FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT in United States History Selective Service Act 1940 FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT in United States History President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service Training Act.

America First Committee Charles Lindbergh addresses an America First Rally

Peace? or Prejudice?

Excerpt from a Lindbergh Speech “The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.” -- Charles Lindbergh September 11, 1941

Things Got Ugly... CLICK the pamphlet cover to read more!

A Campaign Promise “And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars!” -- FDR (10/30/1940)

Germany Invades Russia (1941) Germany’s invasion of Russia drew the Soviets into the war on the side of Great Britain.

The Situation: 1941 The Allies The Axis Neutral Occupied

Europe (1941)

The U.S. Enters the War

The Japanese Empire

Three Days Before Pearl Harbor

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

A date which will live in infamy…

December, 1941 The Allies The Axis Neutral WAR WAR WAR Occupied

“Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.” -- Adm. “Bull” Halsey (12/8/1941)

Start your PROPAGANDA engines! Gentlemen… Start your PROPAGANDA engines!