Chapter 24 World War Looms

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Chapter 24World War Looms
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A. Dictators Threaten Peace

• 1. Joseph StalinSoviet Union
• Goal To create a model communist
  state by taking over all land and factories
• opposition executed
• 2. MussoliniItalyFascist Government
• Goal Recreate the old Roman Empire

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• 3. HitlerComes to power in 1933 after
  building up the German Socialist Workers Party
  (Nazi)
• Goal Unite all Germany speaking people
  under one empire, Germans were the master race,
  conquer more living space
• 4. Japancreates a militaristic totalitarian
  government. In 1931 attacks Manchuria

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Lets Review What each Country is Doing in the
1930s

• Russia
• Italy
• Germany
• Japan

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B. U.S. responds to foreign acts of aggression

• 1. Congress passes the Neutrality acts of
  1935
• a. Outlawed arms sales to warring
  countries
• b. Outlawed loans to warring countries
• c. Extended the ban to prohibit arms
• and loans to countries involved in
  civil
• wars
• 2. F.D.R. brings to question U.S.
  isolationism,
• however public opinion was firmly in
  support of
• isolationism

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II. The U.S. Enters World War II

• 1933 Hitler Comes to Power
• 1936 Hitler occupies the Rhineland
• 1938 Hitler takes Austria
• 1938 Hitler takes the Sudentenland through the
  Munich Pact
• 1938 Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovak
• 1939 Hitler invades PolandWar begins

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Map of German Expansion
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B. Background to U.S. Support

• 1. September 1940Lend/Leasethis was an
  agreementnot a treaty.
• Are we still neutral?
• 2. Passed the Selective Service Act
• 3. Increased appropriations in Congress
• for defense depart.
• 4. France is defeated signs armistice
• a. Set off a wave of panic
• b. Only Britain stood bet. Amer.
  Hitler
• c. Britain must be saved at all cost
• d. Gallup poll70--Hitler a real
  threat