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Period 7:1890-1945

An increasingly pluralistic United


States faced profound domestic and
global challenges, debated the
proper degree of government
activism, and sought to define its
international role.

7.7 Isolationism and the Road to


World War II
Road to World War II

Attempts at Collective Security


Treaty of Versailles (7.3.IIC)
Washington Naval Conference 1921-1922 5-5-3 (7.3.IID)
Limits Imposed by Washington Conference, 19211922
Locarno Pact 1925
Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 War is Illegal
Aspects of the Financial Merry-go-round, 19211933 Dawes Plan-1924 (7.3.IID)
Road to World War II

Failure of Collective Security


Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Adolf Hitler
Leader of the National Socialist
German Workers Party (NAZI)
Hideki Tojo Prime Minster
of Japan
Tripartite Pact 1940
Joseph Stalin
USSR
Spanish Civil War Francisco
Franco
Spanish Civil War Guernica 1937
Road to World War II

American Reaction in the Face of


Fascist Aggression
Nye Committee
Panay Incident, December 12, 1937
Roosevelts Quarantine Speech, 1937
Germany Reoccupies the Rhineland 1936
Hitler informs jubilant Nazi deputies in the Reichstag that Germany has
annexed Austria, 1938
Germany Annexed Austria Anschluss March 1938
Sudentenland Czechoslovakia March 1938
British Prime Minster - Neville Chamberlain Appeasement
German Invasion of Czechoslovakia March 1939
German Invasion of Poland Sept. 1st, 1939
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ha0qKquG2E
Axis v Allies
Names Names
Germany France
Italy Great Britian
Japan Soviet Union (41)
Hungary United States (41)
Romania China
Bulgaria 43 Other Countries
Postcard for amending the Neutrality Act, November 1939 (7.3.IIC)
German Expansion in Europe
October 39/April 40 - Sitskrieg
April 40 Denmark/Norway
May 40 Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
June 40 Fall of France (Vichy)
July/Oct 40 - Battle of Britain (Winston Churchill)
Sep 40/May 43 - Germany/Italy
Balkans/N.Africa
June 41 - Germany invades U.S.S.R
Circles!!
Maginot Line
German Invasion of France June, 1940
Maginot Line
German Expansion in Europe
Winston Churchill Prime
Minister

Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain Luftwaffe Ordered to Destroy the R.A.F.
World War II

U.S. Response to the War in


Europe
Speech: Arsenal of Democracy December 29, 1939 (7.3.IIC)
Destroyers for Base Deal, September 1940
Speech: Four Freedoms January 1941
Main Flow of the Lend-Lease Aid (7.3.IIC)
Atlantic Charter, August 1941
Pearl Harbor
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
Dec 7th, 1941
A day that will live in infamy

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