Pre-War Foreign Policy

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Pre-War Foreign Policy
-we focused on domestic issues -extreme
anti-war feelings Merchants of Death -Good
Neighbor policy in Latin America -Neutrality
Acts forbids arms sales to warring
nations -1937 Roosevelt gives Quarantine speech
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Prelude to War
-Japanese Aggression Manchuria China Emperor
Hirohito----Hideki Tojo -Italy Fascism Benito
Mussolini -Rise of Germany Failed Weimar
Republic Adolph Hitler Third
Reich Nazi -Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin
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Prelude to War
-Japanese Aggression Manchuria China Emperor
Hirohito----Hideki Tojo -Italy Fascism Benito
Mussolini -Rise of Germany Failed Weimar
Republic Adolph Hitler Third
Reich Nazi http//www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.p
hp?MediaId200 -Russia (USSR) Joseph Stalin
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Appeasement
-Kellogg-Briand Pact -Hoover-Stimson
Doctrine refuse to recognize lands taken by
force -German rearmament -Taking of the
Rhineland -Austria -Munich Peace
Conference -American Neutrality
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Appeasement
-Kellogg-Briand Pact -Hoover-Stimson
Doctrine refuse to recognize lands taken by
force -German rearmament -Taking of the
Rhineland -Austria -Munich Peace
Conference -American Neutrality
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Europe at War
-Japanese are invading China, 1937 -Germany
annexes Austria, 1938 -Germany takes
Czechoslovakia, 1938 -Germany-Russia sign
non-aggression treaty, 1939 -Germany attacks
Poland Sept. 1, 1939 -France, England declare war
https//www.youtube.com/watch?vhRHhPNzQXHI
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Blitzkrieg
-lightning warfare -heavy use of machinery and
aircraft -quick victory over Poland -Phony War
begins Maginot Line Siegfried Line -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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Blitzkrieg
-lightning warfare -heavy use of machinery and
aircraft -quick victory over Poland -Phony War
begins Maginot Line Siegfried Line -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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Blitzkrieg
-lightning warfare -heavy use of machinery and
aircraft -quick victory over Poland -Phony War
begins Maginot Line Siegfried Line -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