Prelude to Global War

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Prelude to Global War

• Chapter 24 Section 1

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Fascism and Nazism

• Totalitarian
• Fascism
• Benito Il Duce Mussolini Controls Italy
• The Blackshirts
• Becomes Dictator
• Invades Ethiopia
• Adolf Hitler Rules Germany
• Hitler joins National Socialist German Workers
  Party (Nazis Party)
• Attempted to take over Germany in 1923
• Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
• Blamed Jews for Germanys problems
• Encouraged increase in military
• Aryan race
• Der Fuhrer (the leader)
• Nazi party gains strength during the Great
  Depression
• Hitler become dictator

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Europe Goes to War

• German troops move into the Rhineland
• Axis Powers Germany and Italy
• The German Empire Grows
• March 1938, Austria annexed
• Sudetenland
• Munich Conference
• France and Britains appeasement
• Czechoslovakia
• Soviet Union
• Poland
• September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland
• Britain and France declare war on Germany

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Europe Goes to War (cont.)

• Blitzkrieg (lighting war)
• Hitler takes Poland in less than a month
• Stalin takes half of Poland for the Soviet Union
• Sitzkrieg (sit-down war)
• French build up the Maginot Line
• April 9, 1940 Hitler attacks Denmark and Norway
• May 10 Germany attacks Netherlands, Belgium,
  and France
• Takes Paris on June 14, 1940
• The Battle of Britain
• Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force (RAF)
• June 1940 June 1941

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Japan

• Japan Builds and Empire
• Begins to take over China and other parts of Asia
  during the 1930s and early 1940s
• 1931 takes Manchuria
• Tripartite Pact
• Japan joins Axis Powers
• 1941 separate peace with Soviet Union

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The American Response

• FDR moves Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• America Remains Neutral
• Isolationism
• Neutrality Acts cash and carry
• American Involvement Grows
• Selective Service Act
• Roosevelt wins third term
• Lend-Lease Act

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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

• U.S. warns Japan about further movements in Asia
• December 7, 1941 a date which will live in
  infamy
• U.S. declares war on Japan
• U.S. enters World War II
• Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.