1. WWII: The Road to War

2. A. Treaty of Versailles Review: How was Germany treated?
How could this be a cause of WWII?
Treated Germany bad! G pay reparations; couldn’t have military

3. 1928: Kellog Briand Pact Made war illegal * did it work????
How do we know???

4. Allied Powers (Good Guys)
Great Britain
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
France
Charles de Gaulle
USSR (Russia)
Josef Stalin US
Pres FDR and then Pres Truman

5. Axis Powers (Bad Guys) Japan Italy Germany Spain Emperor Hirohito
Benito Mussolini: leader of Fascist Party
Germany
Adolf Hitler: leader of National Socialist Party (Nazis)
Spain
Dictator Francisco Franco

6. 1931: Japan takes over Manchuria
Japan was trying to become an imperial power
Review: when did the US become an imperial power?

7. 1935: Italy Invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia = Africa
Mussolini wanted to expand Italian Empire

8. 1935-1939: Spanish Civil War Fascist: Francisco Franco
Franco (change “France”) gets help from Hitler

9. 1933: Nazis take power in G Leader: Adolf Hitler
Official title: National Socialist Party
Goal: build up Germany’s military, expand, have a pure Germany
Only Aryans
No Jews, gypsies, communists, mixed race….

10. 1. March 1938: Anschluss Germany annexes Austria

11. The Sudetenland

12. 2. September 1938: Munich Conference
France and Great Britain agree to give Hitler the Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was a part of Czechoslovakia
Can countries give away parts of other countries?

13. Appeasement
giving up principles to pacify an aggressor…. Do whatever it takes to NOT have war

14. Sept 1938: MUNICH CONFERENCE
Neville Chamberlain (GB)
“My friends, there has come back from Germany peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time.”
F and GB give Hitler the Sudetenland
APPEASEMENT: giving up principles to pacify an aggressor…. Do whatever it takes to NOT have war

15. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

16. Opposition to Appeasement
Winston Churchill:
“Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose Dishonor. They will have war.”

17. 3. March 1939: Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

18. 4. German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Secret treaty; HUGE surprise
Goal: no two front war!
Divide up Poland

19. German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
G and USSR sign agreement not to fight each other
Divide up Poland
Secret!!!!!

20. 5. 1 September 1939: Germany invades Poland: WAR!
Blitzkrieg: “lightning war”
New German strategy using tanks and planes to overwhelm opponent

21. German troops enter Warsaw

22. 6. September 1939- April 1940: Phony War
Nothing really happens….
What is Hitler going to do next?
How do France and Great Britain prepare?
What is the American response?

23. 7. Spring 1940: Hitler on the move
Hitler invades Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

24. 8. May 1940: British and French troops Evacuate at Dunkirk

25. 9. June 1940: France Surrenders

26. Fall of France

27. Divided France
Henri Petain

28. Oct 1940: Battle of Britain

29. Battle of Britain: The Blitz
Hitler tries to force GB to surrender by bombing London

30. The Blitz: London

31. The RAF

32. June 1941: Hitler invades USSR

33. Axis Powers 1942