Alliances During World War II

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Alliances During World War II
Axis Powers?
RedHeight of Axis Territory
Germany
Italy
Japan

• Analyze the causes of WWII including
• The Role of the Allies

Objective
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Axis Powers

• Italy and Germany formed a pact to oppose
  communism. 1936
• Then Japan and Germany created another pact
  against the Soviet Union.
• In 1937, the three powers signed an agreement of
  friendship and alliance.

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Axis Powers

• Called the Axis powers, they united against
  communism and democracy.

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Partner Question

• 1. What 3 countries comprise the Axis Powers?

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• NONAGGRESSION PACT AUGUST 1939, AN AGREEMENT
  BETWEEN THE USSR AND GERMANY IN WHICH THEY
  PROMISED NOT TO ATTACK EACH OTHER.
• THIS CAME AS A SHOCK BECAUSE HITLER HATED
  COMMUNISM AND STALIN HATED NAZISM.
• THIS PACT FREED HITLER TO ATTACK POLAND AND RISK
  A WAR WITH THE ALLIES (UK AND FRANCE).

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Partner Questions

• 2. Who is the nonaggression pact between?
• 3. What is the nonaggression pact?
• 4. Why would Hitler risk a war with the U.K. and
  France, but not the Soviet Union? Think
  Geography

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Isolationism
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Isolationism

• ISOLATIONISM MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WANTED TO
  STAY OUT OF THE WAR. THIS WAS A CONTINUATION OF
  THE U.S. ISOLATIONISM TRADITION WHICH PREVENTED
  THE U.S. FROM HELPING THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES IN
  THEIR STRUGGLE AGAINST HITLER.
• NEUTRAL WHAT THE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
  WANTED TO MAINTAIN AT THE START OF WW II. MEANS
  NOT JOINING EITHER SIDE, STAYING OUT OF THE
  FIGHTING.

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Partner Question

• 5. Explain U.S. isolationism.

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Allies

• In 1939, German forces attacked Poland.
• France and Great Britain, allies that had
  guaranteed Polish independence, declared war on
  Germany.

Change on the horizon with the idea of
isolationism in the U.S.
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Lend Lease Act

• LEND LEASE ACT MARCH 1941, ALLOWED THE
  PRESIDENT TO SELL, LEND OR LEASE WAR MATERIALS TO
  ANY NATION WHOSE DEFENSE WAS VITAL TO U.S.
  SECURITY.
• IN REALITY THE U.S. GAVE WEAPONS ONLY TO THE UK
  AND ABANDONED NEUTRALITY.

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ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY CONCEPT THAT THE U.S.
WOULD SUPPLY THE WEAPONS FOR THOSE FIGHTING
AGAINST HITLER AND JAPAN WHILE KEEPING ITS MEN
OUT OF THE ACTUAL FIGHTING.
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Partner Questions

• 6. What is the lend-lease act?
• 7. Does the U.S. practice neutrality with regards
  to the lend-lease act? Explain.

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Allies

• The next year, the German army swept across
  France, soon forcing the French to surrender.

Look at the expression of their faces.
French Reaction
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Allies
Evacuation of the Children-London

• The British now stood alone against Hitler, who
  tried to bomb them into submission.
• Britains air defense of its skies, called the
  Battle of Britain, prevented Hitler from moving
  ahead with plans for an invasion.

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Allies

• In 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Unionan
  action that resulted in the Soviets and British
  becoming allies.
• Japanese forces bombed the U.S. base in Pearl
  Harbor.
• Soon the Allies (Britain, the Soviet Union, and
  the United States) were all fighting against the
  Axis powers and their allies.

Great Britain
Soviet Union
United States
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Partner Questions

• 8. Who violated the nonaggression pact?
• 9. Who becomes allies because of the violation of
  the nonaggression pact?
• 10. What is the final straw to pull the U.S. into
  World War II?
• 11. What 3 countries comprise the Allied Powers?

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Journal Entry

• Entry 23
• 5/13/14
• Imagine you are at Pearl Harbor when the surprise
  attack by the Japanese is taking place. How
  would you adapt to the unknown situation on the
  morning of December 7th, 1941?