German Aggression Recap Aggression by totalitarian powers Japan
German Aggression
Recap • Aggression by totalitarian powers (Japan, Italy, and Germany) • Failure of the Treaty of Versailles • Weakness League of Nations • Appeasement: Give into someone’s demands to avoid conflict example – Britain and France gave Hitler land to avoid war
Beginning of German Aggression: 1936 �Germany sent troops into the Rhineland (demilitarized zone between Germany and France ) – violation of the Versailles Treaty
1938 �Germany annexed Austria – Anschluss (union of Austria and Germany)
1938 �Hitler wanted the Sudetenland (home to 3 million Germans and part of Czechoslovakia that was created after World War 1) � France and Great Britain gave the Sudetenland to Hitler if he agreed not to take anything else – he agreed
March 1939 Hitler conquered the rest of Czechoslovakia
August 1939 �Nazi-Soviet Pact �agreement between Hitler and Stalin to not fight each other and divide Poland parts of Eastern Europe equally
September 1, 1939 �Germany and Russia invade Poland World War II begins �Blitzkrieg (lightning war) �Fast and fierce
Yertle The Turtle by Dr. Seuss �http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=9 FFfb. SWb. LWw&fe ature=related
America’s Growing Involvement
1930 s: The Neutrality Acts �Under these acts Americans could NOT: �Sell weapons to nations at war �Loan money to nations at war �Travel on ships of warring powers. �The goal of these acts was to not get involved in European conflicts (Isolationism).
March 1941: The Lend Lease Act �Allowed FDR to sell or lend war materials to “any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the U. S. ”
December 7, 1941 �The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor �U. S. declared war on Japan in response
December 10, 1941 �Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
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