The War Unfolds

 In a short response of one to three sentences, describe the tests you took over the last two days

 Soviet Union (Stalin)  Dominated by the Communists  Italy (Mussolini)  Dominated by the Fascists  Germany (Hitler)  Dominated by the Nazi Party  Japan (Military Leaders)

 Nazism built on a strong sense of German destiny  All Germans should live in one country ▪ Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer ▪ One People, One Country, One Leader  Germans (Aryans) a “Master Race”, destined to rule  To thrive, Germans needed living space (Lebensraum)

 Attempted abortive putsch in 1923  Armed revolt did not work  Ideas outlined in Mein Kampf (My Struggle) ▪ Use democratic means to suborn democracy  Played on desperation of the German people  “Stabbed in the back by traitors”  Promised economic stability  Promised greatness

 Use of simple arguments and nationalist imagery  Continued to gain seats in the Reichstag  By 1932, the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag  Nazis demanded Hitler be appointed Chancellor (Head of Government)

 Reichstag fire, February 1933  Used as an excuse to take power  Banned left-wing political parties  Passed the Enabling Act, giving the cabinet legislative power  Rival political parties eliminated  German Army bought into the regime  Night of the Long Knives (June 1930)  Potential disloyal Nazis purged

 Slowly overturned Versailles  Reoccupied the Rhineland (1936)  Rebuilt German army  Kristallnacht and the Nuremberg Laws  Slow Process of eliminating German Jews  Stripped Jews of civil rights and privileges  Forced Jews into ghettos  Expansion  Anschluss (unification) of Austria (1938)  Turned sights on the Sudetenland

 Largely German district in Czechoslovakia  Germany demanded the region  Czechoslovakia refused  Conference held in Munich in 1938  Britain and France agreed to the transfer  “Peace in our time”

 March 1939: Germany annexed the rest of the country  August 1939: Nonaggression Pact with USSR  Secret agreement to divide Poland  Shocked the world  September 1, 1939: Germany invasion of Poland

 As war threatened, many became concerned  Fear of U.S. involvement  Senate hearings on World War I  War blamed on arms manufacturers  Took steps to prevent the U.S. involvement

 Designed to keep U.S. from war  1935: No arms sales to belligerent nations  1936: No loans or credit to belligerent nations  1937: U.S. could not ship goods to belligerents  Tied the hands of the U.S.

 FDR and his cabinet recognized the threat  Prepare the U.S. for involvement  Quarantine Speech 1937  Cash-and-Carry 1939  Lend-Lease 1940  German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939  World War II begins  Atlantic Charter August 1941

 Japanese attack brings U.S. into the war  U.S. sets strategy in motion  Initial outrage against Japan  Determined to defeat Germany first

 If you had to describe today’s lesson to an absent classmate, explain what you feel would be the most important thing to understand.