1. American Studies – Chapters 34-37
World
War II
American Studies – Chapters 34-37

2. Could World War II have been prevented?
Essential Question
Could World War II have been prevented?

3. Chapter 34 Origins of World War II
Read Section 1
What does appeasement mean?
Look at that cartoon
Who is the man on the island?
Who are the sea monsters?
What are the lollipops?

4. Game Time!!!
Rules:
Round 1
Compete against a partner in rock, scissors, and paper for three rounds
(Best of three)
Winners = See Me!

5. Game Time!!!
Round II

6. The Road to
War:

7. The Versailles Treaty

8. A Weak League of Nations

9. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations
No control of major conflicts.
No progress in disarmament.
No effective military force.

10. The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied.

11. France – False Sense of Security?
The Maginot Line

12. The Great Depression

13. The Manchurian Crisis, 1931

14. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

15. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

16. Germany Invades the Rhineland March 7, 1936

17. The Austrian Anschluss, 1936

18. 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.

19. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

20. The Spanish Civil War

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

22. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939
Francisco Franco

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

24. The Japanese Invasion of China, 1937

25. The “Problem” of the Sudetenland

26. 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.

27. U. S. Neutrality Acts: 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939

28. America-First Committee
Charles Lindbergh

29. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

30. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1939
The “Pact of Steel”

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