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Unit 6—Chapters 10 – 11
World War II
CSS 11.4, 11.7
Daily Start 1
• Should the US attack other countries
(that we think are a threat) before
they attack us?
Part One
Dictators Threaten World Peace
EQ 1: How did Americans react to events in Europe and Asia in the
early years of WWII?
Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
• Spanish Civil War, 1936
• Hitler and Mussolini sent
aid to fascist Francisco
Franco so he would win
the war
• used the war to field test
their military hardware
• the US and Britain feared
war and did nothing
• Spain will sit out WWII
Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
• Munich Pact, 1938
• Britain signed a treaty with
Hitler that he would not
take any more territory
• this appeasement just
encouraged the fascists
• Hitler took the rest of
Czechoslovakia in 1939
• Mussolini seized Albania
Rhineland, 1936
Czechoslovakia, 1938
German Propaganda
1936 Olympic Games
World War II Begins
• Non-Aggression Pact, 1939
• Germany and Russia agreed
to not fight each other
• this meant no second front if
war began
World War II Begins
• Invasion of Poland, 1939
• German invasion and USSR
invaded two weeks later
• September 1, 1939
• Poland fell within a month
• France and Britain declared
war
• official beginning of the war
• Polish government fled to
Britain
World War II Begins
• Invasion of Western
Europe (France)
• German forces knock out
France in May
• German forces will take
Denmark and Norway in
April
• the Netherlands, Belgium,
and Luxembourg will fall in
May
World War II Begins
• Battle of Britain, 1941
• Britain tried to hold out
against the Nazis air force
alone
• Germany used airbases in
Norway
• Germany bombed London
nightly
• Britain lost 1000 planes
• Germany lost 1700 planes
• Hitler gave up and decided to
attack Russia in the spring
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall
go on to the end. We shall fight
in France, we shall fight on the
seas and oceans, we shall fight
with growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our island,
whatever the cost may be, we
shall fight on the beaches, we
shall fight on the landing
grounds, we shall fight in the
fields and in the streets, we shall
fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender.”
Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy
• Americans favor
neutrality
• US passed neutrality acts
in 1935, 1936, and 1937
• German subs attacked US
merchant ships
• in 1939, FDR started
limited arms sales to the
Allies
• If they fall, we fall
Timeline of US Neutrality
Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy
• Lend-Lease Act, 1941
• the US “leased” military
supplies to the Allies as
the “great arsenal of
democracy”
• $45 billion was given
• $20 billion went to Britain
• Hitler invaded the USSR
in 1941 and the US sent
aid
Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy
• Four Freedom’s Speech,
1941
• FDR’s state of the union
address included goals
for four basic freedoms
we should fight for
• speech
• worship
• freedom from want
• Freedom from fear
Essential Question 1:
• How did Americans react to events in
Europe and Asia in the early years of
WWII?