Pre-War Foreign Policy -we focused on domestic issues -extreme anti-war feelings “Merchants of Death” -Good Neighbor policy in Latin America -Neutrality Acts forbids arms sales to warring nations Roosevelt gives Quarantine speech
Prelude to War -Japanese Aggression Manchuria China Emperor Hirohito----Hideki Tojo -Italy Fascism Benito Mussolini -Rise of Germany Failed Weimar Republic Adolph Hitler & Third Reich Nazi -Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin
Prelude to War -Japanese Aggression Manchuria China Emperor Hirohito----Hideki Tojo -Italy Fascism Benito Mussolini -Rise of Germany Failed Weimar Republic Adolph Hitler & Third Reich Nazi -Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin
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
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
Europe at War -Japanese are invading China, Germany annexes Austria, Germany takes Czechoslovakia, Germany-Russia sign non- aggression treaty, Germany attacks Poland Sept. 1, France, England declare war PNzQXHI
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
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
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 -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