1. Prelude to Global War Chapter 24 Section 1

2. Fascism and Nazism  Totalitarian  Fascism  Benito “Il Duce” Mussolini - Italy  Blackshirts  Dictator  Invades Ethiopia  Adolf Hitler - Germany  Nazi Party  Attempted to take over Germany in 1923  Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)  Aryan race  Becomes Dictator - 1933

3. Europe Goes to War  German troops move into the Rhineland (1)  Axis Powers – Germany & Italy  German Empire Grows  March 1938 - Austria annexed (2) - Anschluss  Sudetenland (3)  Munich Conference - Chamberlain  France & Britain’s appeasement  Czechoslovakia (4)  Poland (5)  September 1, 1939 – Hitler invades Poland  Britain & France declare war on Germany

4. Europe Goes to War (cont.)  Blitzkrieg (“lightening war”)  Hitler takes Poland in less than a month  Stalin takes half of Poland for Soviet Union (communist)  Sitzkrieg (“sit-down war”)  French build up Maginot Line  April 9, 1940 – Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, & France  Takes Paris on June 14, 1940  Evacuation at Dunkirk  Battle of Britain  Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force (RAF)  June 1940 – June 1941 – 30,000 Londonders killed

5. Japan  Japan Builds an Empire  Invades Manchuria; other Pacific Islands 30’s & 40’s  American Response  FDR moves Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii  America Remains Neutral  Isolationism  Neutrality Acts – “cash and carry”  American Involvement Grows  Selective Service Act  Roosevelt wins 3rd term 1940  Lend-Lease Act  Embargo; Japanese assets frozen  Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor  December 7, 1941 – “a date which will live in infamy”  U.S. enters World War II