Pre-War Foreign Policy -we focused on domestic issues -extreme anti-war feelings “Merchants of Death” _________________ Policy Roosevelt had with Latin.

Pre-War Foreign Policy

-we focused on domestic issues

-extreme anti-war feelings

“Merchants of Death”

_________________ Policy Roosevelt had with Latin America

_________________

forbids arms sales to warring nations

Good Neighbor

Neutrality Acts

Causes of WWII

-________________ extreme loyalty to one’s nation. Very strong in European nations.

- ________________ Undertaken by Germany, rebuilding of an Army

- _______________ British and French policy of giving Hitler land prior to outbreak of war

Nationalism

Rearmament

Appeasement

More Causes

• Germany breaking the Non-Aggression pact with Russia

• Rise of Nazism and Fascism

• Rise of dictators• Greed - Hitler

World War II - Leaders

Axis Powers• Italy – • Germany – • Japan –

– Allied Powers• England – &• France – • Russia – • United States – &

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Emperor Hirohito

Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill

Joseph StalinFranklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Prelude to War

-Japanese Aggression

____________ the first territory the Japanese tried to take over

China

-Italy – Benito Mussolini

___________ political movement typified by attempts to impose state control over important aspects of life: political, social, cultural, and economic.

Fascism

Manchuria

Appeasement

-Rise of Germany -

Failed Weimar Republic

_______ rose to power in the 1930’s, leader of the

Nazi Party

- _________ party that believes the Aryan race is superior to all others

-____________ led by

Joseph Stalin during World War II

Hitler

Russia (USSR)

Nazi

Appeasement

-____________

outlawed offensive war. What about Hitler?

-Hoover-Stimson Doctrine

refuse to recognize lands taken by force

-What had Germany been doing ever since WWI?

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Rearming – rebuilding it’s military

Taking of the Rhineland – Hitler starts to make his move

-Austria, Anchluss

-_______________________– gave Germany the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia if Hitler would go no further

-What is America’s stand on the War?

Munich Peace Conference

Europe at War

-Japanese are invading China, 1937

-Germany annexes Austria, 1938

-Germany takes Czechoslovakia, 1938

-____________________, 1939, Agreement between Russia and Germany not to fight one another

-Germany attacks Poland Sept. 1, 1939

-France, England declare war

Non-Aggression Pact

Blitzkrieg

-_________________ another name for the German type of war

-heavy use of machinery and aircraft

- ________________ Germany’s Air Force

-quick victory over Poland

Lightning War

Luftwaffe

Blitzkrieg

-Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway, then Belgium

-Invasion of France

-Massive Allied evacuation at Dunkirk

-France signs surrender, June 1940

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

The European Theater – World War II

German Aggression

- Hitler Invades Poland

- Germany goes after Denmark and Norway

- Then Hitler moves to Belgium and the Netherlands

- Most Notable country taken over early by Hitler was France

European Theater – World War II

Battle of Britain

- German Luftwaffe vs. British Royal Air Force (RAF)

- Germany fails

Italy making moves as well

- Italians invade Greece and North Africa, Germany comes to Italy’s assistance

War Plans

-Roosevelt and British leader Churchill meet

-________ and ________ are top priority

-only an __________________ is acceptable

Why is this the only type of surrender that will be acceptable?

Germany Hitler

Unconditional Surrender

War Plans

-Battle of the Atlantic

convoy system

Liberty ship building program was producing great numbers of ships to supply war

-Allies begin strategic bombing of Germany to destroy war capabilities

Eastern Front- Scorched-Earth policy,

destroy and remove all useful supplies and facilities upon retreating

- initial victories in USSR turn into stalemate and the Russian winter stops German advances

-______________, surrounded in 1942 by the Germans, Russia wins

- The battle was a turning-point because Germany lost a great

number of troops and materiel that could not be replaced

Stalingrad

Africa/Italy

-Stalin wants another _________ to occupy Germany

-new “front” opened with invasion of northern Africa

-____________ and the _________ forces eventually defeated

-”Soft underbelly” campaign

wanted to attack Germany through _________

-German troops make Italian campaign last many months

“front”

RommelGerman

Italy

D-Day

-Allies had planned an invasion of the mainland, led by _______________

-_______________ June 6, 1944, plan to liberate France

-paratroopers invaded behind enemy lines, thousands stormed beaches of Normandy France

Omaha Beach

Utah Beach

-France liberated within weeks

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Operation Overlord

The End is Near-__________________Dec. 1944

last German counter-offensive

Hitler does not like it, but the Germans are now in __________

-massive bombing raids

-___________ wins another term as President

____________, Roosevelt’s VP

-Soviet armies pushing into Germany from the east

Battle of the Bulge

RETREAT

Roosevelt

Truman

V-E Day

-____________, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, Continue to discuss end of war

-Allied forces pushing toward _________

-death camps found and Holocaust is revealed

Big 3

Berlin

V-E Day

-___________ dies and _______ becomes President

-What does Hitler now do???

- Russia invades Berlin

-Germany surrenders May 1945

RooseveltTruman