 DEFINE  Appeasement  Benito Mussolini  Joseph Stalin  Anti-Semitism  Totalitarian page 364

 Benito Mussolini  King names him head of government  He bans;  all other forms of government  Freedom of press  Seize Countries  Takes over Ethopia in 1935  Takes over Albania 1939

 Leader  Joseph Stalin  Used force to obtain obedience  39,157 military officers prisoned or killed  For people, millions were sent to “labor camps”  Initially, enemies with Hitler

 Takes over Germany in 1933  1936 ALLIANCE WITH ITALY  Mussolini  Takes over Rhineland, Austria, and Sudetenland by 1939  Time Magazine man of Year in 1939  Expands empire from 186,000 square miles to 225,000 square miles

 Britain assures Poland any invasion would mean war with Germany  Secretly Britain trying to get Poland to appease Germany  Germany invades Poland in 1939  Officially starting WWII

 Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner  Atomic Scientist  Jews, fled Germany  Meet Einstein in America  Needed to tell President of discovery  Three men send letter to FDR  Largest secret weapons project in history begins

 Nazi-Soviet Non- Aggression Pact  Agreement not to attack each other  Germany free from two- front war  Hitler convinced no action will be taken by democracies  Sept Hitler invades Poland  Using Blitzkrieg  Poland falls in 1 month  om/watch?v=8ha0qKq uG2E om/watch?v=8ha0qKq uG2E

FRANCE AND BRITAINGERMANY  Take part in a “sitzkrieg”  A sitter's war  Do not invade Germany, but are very defensive  Attack Denmark and Norway in April  Attack Belgium and Netherlands in March  Dunkirk  300,000 troops evacuated from France  France surrenders by the end of June

ALLIEDAXIS  France  Great Britain  Italy  Germany  Japan

 Explain Blitzkrieg in detail.

 France defeat, Britain fears invasion  Winston Churchill  Prime Minister of England  Battle of Britain  Germans bomb air bases, shipyards, and industries, and cities  British RAF defeat the Germans in the sky, after months of fighting, Hitler calls off attack  m/watch?v=Nbv- x_cQ26I&feature=relmfu

 Failure to invade Britain meant Hitler turns east on Russia  Operation Barbarossa  INVADES FOR RESOURCE  INVADES FOR “LIVING SPACE FOR GERMAN PEOPLE”  Russia has “scorched earth policy”  Destroy their own country

PREPARE FOR WAR1940 ELECTION  FDR Strengthens Navy  Passes “neutrality act”  Opens trade with warring nations if they pay cash  FDR signs “Selective Service and Training Act”  Peacetime  Ages  FDR wins unprecedented third term

 What were the reasons Hitler gave for invading Russia? What fighting tactic did Russia use? What does that tactic include?

 Post WWI  U.S. does not support British treaty with Japan  U.S. does not support the “Rape of Nanking”  U.S. places Oil Embargo on Japan in order to keep them from invading Indonesia.  Japan accidentally sinks U.S. boat killing 3, wounding 40

 Early 1941, U.S. Japan engaged in peace talks  Pearl Harbor  Waves of Japanese Zeroes Swept in strike battle ship row  Sink 18 war ships; 180 aircraft  2,403 America deaths; 1,178 wounded

 American armed forces post Pearl Harbor  Army smaller than Romania  Navy destroyed by PH  U.S. declare war December 8, 1941  Hitler, declares war on the U.S. December 11, 1941  om/watch?v=rBWWZ- ZEydc&feature=relmfu