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War in Europe
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March 12, 1938– Hitler takes over Austria
(unopposed, happy to have him)
Hitler sets his eyes on the Sudetenland (area
in Czechoslovakia)
Sept 1938 Munich Conference:
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Hitler meets with French PM (Daladier) and GB
PM (Neville Chamberlain) sign Munich
agreement, Hitler says Sudetenland will be the
last area he takes over.
Appeasement
German Offensive Begins
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Non-Aggression Pact: signed by Hitler and Stalin (Aug. 23, 1939)
agree to never attack each other and will divide Poland between
them
Sept 1, 1939, Hitler invades Poland and takes it for himself
Sept 3, 1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
War has started
Bliztkrieg (lightening war) German military tactic
Phony War (after attack on Poland and troops gear up,
stalemate)
April 9, 1940 Hitler invades Denmark and Norway, next Belgium
and Luxemborg
Great Britain and France Fight
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Allies vs Axis (Italy, Germany, Japan)
Germany works toward taking over France
Is able to occupy the North of France, now
only Great Britain is free from German control
Summer of 1940, bombing of Britain
Britain remains free, US realizes it must soon
help its friend
Moving from Neutrality
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Sept 1939, “Cash-and-Carry” policy, if you got the
cash and can take it, we will give you war materials
Tripartite Pact: Germany, Italy, and Japan will work
together for mutual defense (aka Axis Powers)
If US attacks any of the nations in the Axis powers
faces a two ocean war (we don’t want that) so US
stays out
But just in case…..US passes Selective Service Act
(1940) first peacetime draft (21-35 could serve in
military
1940, Franklin Roosevelt runs for and wins a 3rd
term in office (first president to do so)
World War II
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Lend-Lease Plan, designed with GB in mind,
we will lend you weapons (replaces Cash and
Carry policy) ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY
Want to help GB fight off the Germans
Also give some weapons to USSR
1940’s German U-boats are back again
1941, German U-boats attacking US ships,
US sailors given permission to fight back
FDR Plans for War (just in
case)
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Atlantic Charter: meeting between Winston
Churchill and FDR about post war plans. US
not even in war at this point. Both countries
pledge to work for disarmament, selfdetermination, economic cooperation, and
freedom of the seas. Also, calls for a United
Nations
Allies are formed, 26 nations fighting against
the Axis Powers
Japan and Tojo
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July 1937, Japan under Hideki Tojo invade Manchuria, China
Japan wants to get all of East Asia under their control, quickly
able to take islands in the Pacific, only US owned islands are free
(by 1941)
US protests Japanese actions by cutting off trade with them, this
makes Japan mad!
Tojo (PM) promises Emperor of Japan that he will maintain
peace with the US
Nov 5, 1941, tells Japanese military to be ready for attack on US
navy (secretly)
US is able to break Japanese military code, knows that a strike is
coming but where???
Pearl Harbor
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Dec 7, 1941, Japan attacks US military base
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
US taken by surprise
“Date which will live in infamy”
US declares war on Japan