1. PRELUDE TO WORLD WAR II The Rise of Totalitarianism

2. Aggression by Dictatorships 1929- The Kellogg-Briand Pact 1931- Japan seizes Manchuria 1933- Hitler and the Nazi Party come to power in Germany 1935- Italy invades Ethiopia 1936- Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland Americans were determined to stay neutral and avoid another war in Europe. WWI had left many disillusioned

3. Mussolini and Hitler

4. The last Chinese Emperor becomes leader of the Japanese puppet state Manchuko A Loyalist soldier is killed in the war in Ethiopia

5. American Neutrality 1934- The Nye Committee Report The U.S. Congress passes a series of neutrality acts 1936- The Spanish Civil War President Roosevelt tried to find ways to help the nations threatened by Agression 1935- Hitler begins discrimination against Jews Nuremburg Laws Crystal Night 1938- Hitler annexes Austria 1939- the Munich Conference and appeasement

6. Picasso’s Guernica

7. Stuka Divebomber First used in the Spanish Civil War

8. Jewish synagogue burning in Germany during Crystal Night Jewish shop after Crystal Night

9. World war II Begins in Europe 1939- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact the invasion of Poland; the “blitzkrieg” the beginning of Hitler’s “Final Solution” The Phony War The Fall of France and Dunkirk The Battle of Britain The U.S. sends supplies to Britain The Great Depression ends

10. The German blitzkrieg combined the use of air power, tanks, and infantry

11. British troops wait for evacuation on the beach at Dunkirk in 1939

12. British Spitfire fighter British Hurricane fighter German ME 109 fighter Messerscmidt 110 Bomber War planes of the Battle of Britain