American Response to the Looming Threat of a Second World War Responses to the growing power of dictators TONIGHT: • Read up through page 750 (we will discuss the entirety of the homefront effort on Monday). • Then, fighting, atomic bomb, begin post-war discussion
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American Response to the Looming Threat of a Second World War Responses to the growing power of dictators TONIGHT: Read up through page 750 (we will discuss.
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American Response to the Looming Threat of a Second World War
Responses to the growing power of dictators
TONIGHT: •Read up through page 750 (we will discuss the entirety of the homefront effort on Monday).
•Then, fighting, atomic bomb, begin post-war discussion
What does this cartoon
suggest about American
policy towards Europe’s
problems in the early 1930’s?
Background Context
• Washington Naval Conference (1922)• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) • Good Neighbor Policy (1930-1934)
• German, Italian, and Japanese alliances• Soviet Union and Germany sign Non-
Aggression Pact
US Legislates Neutral Isolationism
• Hitler institutes universal
training and denounces
Versailles Treaty and
Mussolini invades Italy and
Somaliland
• Spanish Civil War
• Japanese invade
China
• Neutrality Act of 1935 – arms
embargo, discretionary travel
restrictions
• Neutrality Act of 1936 – ban on loans
to belligerents
• Neutrality Act of 1937 – mandates the
above, not discretionary
NOW COME BACK TO THE CAUSES OF WWI – WHY DID FDR DO THIS?
Attempts to stop German
Expansion
• Munich Conference Agreement (1938):
• Germany, Britain, Italy, and Hitler allow Hitler to take Sudetenland (was it even theirs?)
What is this cartoon saying about the Munich Conference?
Differing Viewpoints• Charles
Lindbergh was part of the “America First Movement”
• What does this cartoon say about this movement?
Differing Viewpoints Con’t
Non-Neutral Isolationism*technically still called a “neutrality act”
• Germany Invades Poland and WWII officially begins
• Neutrality Act of 1939
• Called: Cash and Carry
• It allowed European Democracies to pay cash for war goods … as long as these democracies carried the goods on their own boats