The War Unfolds

In a short reply of one to three sentences, respond to the following prompt: What did FDR mean when he made the following comment: “A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers”

 Hitler and Germany slowly overturned the Treaty of 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.