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Pre-War Foreign Policy -we focused on domestic issues -extreme anti-war feelings “Merchants of Death” -Good Neighbor policy in Latin America -Neutrality Acts forbids arms sales to warring nations -1937 Roosevelt gives Quarantine speech
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Prelude to War -Japanese Aggression Manchuria China Emperor Hirohito----Hideki Tojo -Italy Fascism Benito Mussolini -Rise of Germany Failed Weimar Republic Adolph Hitler & Third Reich Nazi -Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin
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Prelude to War -Japanese Aggression Manchuria China Emperor Hirohito----Hideki Tojo -Italy Fascism Benito Mussolini -Rise of Germany Failed Weimar Republic Adolph Hitler & Third Reich Nazi http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=200 -Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin
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Appeasement -Kellogg-Briand Pact -Hoover-Stimson Doctrine refuse to recognize lands taken by force -German rearmament -Taking of the Rhineland -Austria -Munich Peace Conference -American Neutrality
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Appeasement -Kellogg-Briand Pact -Hoover-Stimson Doctrine refuse to recognize lands taken by force -German rearmament -Taking of the Rhineland -Austria -Munich Peace Conference -American Neutrality
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Europe at War -Japanese are invading China, 1937 -Germany annexes Austria, 1938 -Germany takes Czechoslovakia, 1938 -Germany-Russia sign non- aggression treaty, 1939 -Germany attacks Poland Sept. 1, 1939 -France, England declare war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRHh PNzQXHI
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Blitzkrieg -lightning warfare -heavy use of machinery and aircraft -quick victory over Poland -Phony War begins Maginot Line Siegfried Line -Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium -Invasion of France -Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk -France signs surrender, June 1940
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Blitzkrieg -lightning warfare -heavy use of machinery and aircraft -quick victory over Poland -Phony War begins Maginot Line Siegfried Line -Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium -Invasion of France -Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk -France signs surrender, June 1940
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Blitzkrieg -lightning warfare -heavy use of machinery and aircraft -quick victory over Poland -Phony War begins Maginot Line Siegfried Line -Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium -Invasion of France -Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk -France signs surrender, June 1940
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Battle of Britain -Germany controls most of Europe -Luftwaffe begin bombing of Britain -RAF defends British homeland -”Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” Winston Churchill -Germany never launches invasion of Britain
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