1.
FDR and the Road to WWII

2. Isolationism
1920’s trend of Isolationism deepens with Great Depression

3. London Conference 1933 Solution: Control Currencies FDR drops out
Depression worsens/ Nationalism rises

4. Tydings-McDuffie Act 1934 Philippines independent by 1946 Why?
Fear of Japan
Democrats feared immigrant labor

5. Good Neighbor Policy US will work with Latin America
Platt Amendment ended

6. Reciprocal Trade Agreement
1934
Sec. of State Hull
We will lower tariffs if other country does

7. Congress Legislates Neutrality
1934 Johnson Debt Default Act
Neutrality Acts
Nye Commission
US can’t trade with ANY belligerent nation

9. Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 Fascists (Franco)vs. Socialists
Germany/Italy vs. USSR
Abraham Lincoln Brigade

10. Appeasement
1937 Japan invades China
1937 Panay Incident

12. 1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland

13. 1938 Anschluss
1938 Munich Accord- Sudentenland
1939 Czechoslovakia falls to Germany

16. Poland 1939- USSR and Germany sign a non-aggression pact
Sept. 1 Hitler invades Poland
France and UK declare war
USSR invades Poland

17. Blitzkrieg

18. Cash and Carry Neutrality Act of 1939
Allies can buy and transport goods
SOLVES THE RECESSION OF

19. Sitskrieg
Inaction from Sept April 1940
Maginot Line

20. 1939- USSR takes Finland
1940- Germany takes Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

23. Havana Conference 1940- Havana Conference
North and South America will work together to uphold Monroe Doctrine

24. Conscription Congress approves the building up of the military
1st Peacetime Conscription

25. England Stands Alone
Battle of Britain (9-11, 1940)

26. America First Committee
Charles Lindbergh

30. Destroyer Deal
1940
US trades 50 WWI destroyers for 8 bases

31. 1940 Election Wendell Wilkie (R-In) FDR (D-NY)/ Henry Wallace
Run New Deal Better
Prepare for war
FDR (D-NY)/ Henry Wallace

33. Lend-Lease
1941
$760 Billion to Allies

34. Operation Barbarossa

36. Atlantic Charter Aug. 1941 US and UK No territorial gains
Self Determination
Freedom of the Seas
Low tariffs
Freedom from want and fear

37. Germany vs. US 9/ 1941- USS Greer 10/1941- USS Kearny
10/1941- USS Reuben James sunk

38. US vs. Japan
FDR announces oil embargo against Japan

39. Road to Pearl Harbor