Pre-War Foreign Policy

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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
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Causes of WWII

• -________________ extreme loyalty to ones
  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
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More Causes

• Germany breaking the Non-Aggression pact with
  Russia
• Rise of Nazism and Fascism
• Rise of dictators
• Greed - Hitler

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World War II - Leaders

• Axis Powers
• Italy
• Germany
• Japan
• Allied Powers
• England
• France
• Russia
• United States

Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Emperor Hirohito
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
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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.
Manchuria
Fascism
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Appeasement
-Rise of Germany - Failed Weimar
Republic _______ rose to power in the 1930s,
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
Nazi
Russia (USSR)
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Appeasement
Kellogg-Briand Pact
-____________ outlawed offensive war. What about
Hitler? -Hoover-Stimson Doctrine refuse to
recognize lands taken by force -What had Germany
been doing ever since WWI?
Rearming rebuilding its military
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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 Americas stand on the War?
Munich Peace Conference
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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
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Blitzkrieg
Lightning War

• -_________________ another name for the German
  type of war
• -heavy use of machinery and aircraft
• ________________ Germanys Air Force
• -quick victory over Poland

Luftwaffe
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Blitzkrieg
-Stalin attacks Finland, Hitler attacks Denmark,
Norway, then Belgium -Invasion of
France -Massive Allied evacuation at
Dunkirk -France signs surrender, June 1940
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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
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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
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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 Italys assistance
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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
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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
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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

Stalingrad
Germany lost a great number of troops and
materiel that could not be replaced
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Africa/Italy
front
-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
Rommel
German
Italy
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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
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Battle of the Bulge
-__________________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 ____________, Roosevelts VP -Soviet
armies pushing into Germany from the east
The End is Near
RETREAT
Roosevelt
Truman
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V-E Day
Big 3
-____________, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin,
Continue to discuss end of war -Allied forces
pushing toward _________ -death camps found and
Holocaust is revealed
Berlin
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V-E Day

• -___________ dies and _______ becomes President
• -What does Hitler now do???
• Russia invades Berlin
• -Germany surrenders May 1945

Roosevelt
Truman