1. A total eclipse of the individual
Totalitarianism
A total eclipse of the individual
Militarism
Dictatorship
Censorship
Repression
Photo by betelgeux

2. Dictatorships
SOVIET UNION
ITALY
GERMANY
JAPAN

3. The Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin

4. Fascist Italy
Benito Mussolini
Map Art By DrRandomFactor

5. Statue of Romulus and Remus in Rome, GA
Roman Imagery
Fasces
Statue of Romulus and Remus in Rome, GA

6. Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

7. Imperial Japanese Army
Japanese Militarism
Hideki Tojo
Flag of the
Imperial Japanese Army

8. Japanese Expansion
Map Credit: BBC

9. German Expansion
Map Credit:

10. Appeasement
Photo by eperales

11. Chamberlain and Hitler
The Munich Agreement
Chamberlain and Hitler

12. “Peace for our time…”

13. Churchill on Munich
The Western democracies “are weighed in the balance and found wanting.”
“And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.”
Churchill’s Speech:

14. Hitler Invades Poland
September, 1939
Map Credit: Listowy

15. Blitzkrieg
(Lightning War)
Panzer

16. Fall of France
1940
Made by Niels Bosboom.

17. Battle of Britain
1940 Air Battles
Military Targets
Cities/Civilians

18. Axis Pact
Japan, Germany, and Italy agree to cooperate in their efforts… They further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the Contracting Powers is attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict.

19. The World is Falling Apart

20. That Sucked!
American Wounded Making Way To First Aid Station In The Village Of Marne During German Attack by George Matthews Harding Here Harding shows the ever-present human toll of war along with two of the innovations of the Great War, the airplane and barbed wire.
Source:

21. aka, “Non-Intervention”
“Isolationism”
aka, “Non-Intervention”

22. NO ARMS TO BELLIGERENTS
Neutrality Acts
1936, 1937, 1939
NO ARMS TO BELLIGERENTS
Photo by *janine*

23. The Arsenal of Democracy
Cash and Carry (1939)
Destroyers for Bases (1940)
Lend-Lease (1941)
Photo by mr.smashy

24. Pay cash and carry it home, yourself.
1939
Pay cash and carry it home, yourself.

25. Destroyers for Bases
1940
Map:
Destroyers to Britain in exchange for naval bases in the Caribbean

26. Lend-Lease Act 1941 Let the British borrow military equipment
FURTHER READING:
FDR Press Conference
December 17, 1940
Photo by peasap

28. FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT in United States History
Selective Service Act
1940
FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT in United States History
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service Training Act.

29. America First Committee
Charles Lindbergh addresses an America First Rally

31. Peace? or Prejudice?

32. Excerpt from a Lindbergh Speech
“The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.” -- Charles Lindbergh September 11, 1941

33. Things Got Ugly...
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34. A Campaign Promise
“And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again:
Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars!”
-- FDR (10/30/1940)

35. Germany Invades Russia (1941)
Germany’s invasion of Russia drew the Soviets into the war on the side of Great Britain.

36. The Situation: 1941
The Allies
The Axis
Neutral
Occupied

37. Europe (1941)

38. The U.S. Enters the War

39. The Japanese Empire

40. Three Days Before Pearl Harbor

41. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941

42. A date which will live in infamy…

43. December, 1941
The Allies
The Axis
Neutral
WAR
WAR
WAR
Occupied

44. “Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.”
-- Adm. “Bull” Halsey (12/8/1941)

45. Start your PROPAGANDA engines!
Gentlemen…
Start your PROPAGANDA engines!