1. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
National
Front [Nationalists]
The
Popular
Front [Republicans]
Carlists [ultra-Catholic monarchists].
Catholic Church.
Falange [fascist] Party.
Monarchists.
Anarcho-Syndicalists.
Basques.
Catalans.
Communists.
Marxists.
Republicans.
Socialists.

2. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

3. The Spanish Civil War

4. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 The American “Lincoln Brigade”

5. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
Francisco Franco- He would rule Spain for 36 years

6. The Spanish Civil War: A Dress Rehearsal for WW II?
Italian troops in Madrid

7. “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

8. The Japanese Invasion of China, 1937

9. The Austrian Anschluss “link-up”, 1938

10. The “Problem” of the Sudetenland

11. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

12. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

13. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939
Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

14. The
War
Begins!

15. Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]
Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

16. German Troops March into Warsaw

17. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940
The Tripartite Pact

18. The European
& North African
Theaters

19. European Theater of Operations

20. The “Phoney War” Ends: Spring, 1940

21. Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940

22. France Surrenders June, 1940
the US passes a conscription law…

23. A Divided France
Henri Petain

24. General Charles DeGaulle
The French Resistance
The Free French
General Charles DeGaulle
The Maquis