World War II

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World War II
By Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S.
Chappaqua, NY

Additional material by Molly Lynde
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A Little Cartoon Humor
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The Road to War 1919-1939
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The Versailles Treaty
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A Weak League of Nations
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The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations

• No control of major conflicts.
• No progress in disarmament.
• No effective military force.

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The Stab-In-The-Back Theory
German soldiers are dissatisfied.
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Decadence of the Weimar Republic
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International Agreements

• Locarno Pact 1925
• France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy
• Guarantee existing frontiers
• Establish DMZ 30 miles deep on East bank of
  Rhine River
• Refrain from aggression against each other
• Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
• Makes war illegal as a tool of diplomacy
• No enforcement provisions

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France False Sense of Security?
The MaginotLine
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Important Dates
1931- Japan invades Manchuria 1935- Italy invades
Ethopia 1936- Rome- Berlin Pact 1936-1939 Spanish
Civil War 1936/37- Japan takes Nanjing
China 1936- Hitler takes Rhineland 1938- Hitler
takes Austria 1938- Hitler takes
Sudetenland 1938- Munich Agreement/
Appeasement 1939- Hitler takes Czhechoslovakia
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The Great Depression
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The Manchurian Crisis, 1931
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Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931
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Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935
Emperor Haile Selassie
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Germany Invades the RhinelandMarch 7, 1936
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U. S. Neutrality Acts1934, 1935, 1937, 1939
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America-First Committee
Charles Lindbergh
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Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936
The Pact of Steel
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The Spanish Civil War1936 - 1939
The National FrontNationalists
The Popular FrontRepublicans

• Communists.
• Republicans.
• Socialists.

• Carlists ultra-Catholic monarchists.
• Catholic Church.
• Falange fascist Party.
• Monarchists.

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The Spanish Civil WarA Dress Rehearsal for WW
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Italian troops in Madrid
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Guernica by Pablo Picasso
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The Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939
The American Lincoln Brigade
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The Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939
Francisco Franco
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The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937
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The Austrian Anschluss, 1938
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The Problem of theSudetenland
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Appeasement The Munich Agreement, 1938
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Now we have peace in our time! Herr Hitler is a
man we can do business with.
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Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich
1939
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The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939
Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop Molotov
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Der Fuhrer
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The War Begins!
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Poland Attacked Sept. 1, 1939
Blitzkrieg Lightening War
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German Troops March into Warsaw
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940
The Tripartite Pact
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European Theater of Operations
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Hitler invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, and the
Netherlands.With everyones attention on Hitlers
sweep of these nations he sent an even larger
force into France through the Ardrennes Forest,
avoiding the Maginot Line - a system of
fortifications along Frances border with
Germany. Allied forces and German forces stared
at each other. Became known as Stizkrieg
The Phony War Ends
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Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940
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The War Comes to Europe