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Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2015
• Take your seat
• Take out your notebook
• Open to notes “Dictators Threaten World Peace”
Precious Time / Warm -Up
Highlight and add in Cornell questions
Read over your notes and answer the following questions
in 3-5 sentences.
1. How did Americans react to events in Europe
and Asia in the early years of WWII?
2. Should the actions of Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo
have concerned Americans? Why or why not?
Today Agenda
• Precious Time / Warm-Up
• FN Discussion: “Dictators
Threaten World Peace”
• Homework:
• Read Ch. 10 Sec. 1 – quick
reading quiz tomorrow
Dictators Threaten World Peace
EQ : 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 but did nothing
• Spain will sit out WWII
Appeasement in Action
• 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
What does this suggest about
the German Empire?
Take notes on what you are
seeing.
1936 Olympic Games
Nazi – Soviet pact
• 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
• Germans invade, USSR
invade 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
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
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
Timeline of US Neutrality
Essential Question 1:
• How did Americans react to events in
Europe and Asia in the early years of
WWII?