1. The Road To War From Versailles to Pearl Harbor

2. The Treaty of Versailles From left, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and US President Woodrow Wilson

3. Germany Faces Economic Collapse “Town Shelter,” a lithograph by Kathe Kollwitz that graphically depicts the misery of the poor in Germany following the economic collapse of 1923.

4. German Inflation These children show that it takes 100,000 marks to buy one dollar. Inflation would get increasingly worse after this (by the economic collapse in 1923, 1 dollar was worth 1 billion marks).

5. The Rise of Adolf Hitler Political poster of a man with a Nazi symbol on his belt breaking out of chains.

6. Fascism in Italy Benito Mussolini addressing his Fascist followers in the Roman Colosseum.

7. The Spanish Civil War Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, painted in 1937, which shows the brutality of the bombing and human suffering of the victims during the Spanish civil war.

8. Japanese Militarism Japanese forces marching into the Chinese province of Manchuria

9. Violation and Appeasement 1938 – Nazi forces march into the Sudetenland

10. Violation and Appeasement German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shaking hands.

11. Violation and Appeasement

12. The Invasion of Czechoslovakia German tanks roll through a Sudeten street. The banner reads “Hail to our German borders!”

13. World War II Begins A Huge swastika representing Germany rolling into Poland. This shows the continuing aggression of the Nazis following their invasion of Czechoslovakia.

14. American Isolationism

15. U.S. Support of Britain Crates from the United States being unloaded in England as part of the Lend- Lease Act.

16. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor The explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941

17. The U.S. Declares War The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war on Japan. There was only one vote cast against the declaration of war. Germany and Italy, Japan’s allies in the Axis Powers, declared war on the United States a couple of days later.