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Resentment by Germany over the Treaty of Versailles
Russia bitter over being left out by and outcomes of the
Treaty of Versailles
Japan becomes militarisitic,
imperialistic, and anti-western
Economic depression in Europe (1929-1939)
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
1. Leader of Soviet Union after death of Lenin in 1924
2. Transforms country into Industrial power (Five-Year Plan and New Economic Policy)
3. Executed anyone against his rule (Great Purge)
4. Communist form of govt.
1. Appointed head of govt. by king of Italy in 1922
2. Used Black Shirts (secret army) to enforce his policies
3. Fascist form of govt.
1. 1919 joins National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) & becomes leader
2. Wrote Mein Kampf to express political and racial views
3. Appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 (Third Reich est.)
4. Nazism form of govt. (German version of Fascism)
1. Military leader and politician (2nd in charge)
2. Founded the Gestapo and Commander of the Luftwaffe
1. Politician and Minister of Propaganda
2. An author of the Final Solution
Hideki Tojo (Japan)
1. In 1926 becomes Emperor of Japan
2. Head of State under Constitution of Japan
3. Japanese belief = Emperor was god on Earth
1. Japanese military leader 2. Nationalist and Imperialist
beliefs (Anti-Western views)
3. In 1941 becomes Prime Minister
3. Installs a Imperialist Military Regime form of govt.
1. September 19, 1931 - Japan invades Manchuria
2. March 7, 1936 - Germany invades Rhineland
3. May 9, 1936 - Italy invades Ethiopia
4. July 18, 1936 – Spanish Civil War begins (Germany and Italy support Fascist leader Francisco Franco)
5. July 1, 1937 – Japan invades China
6. March 12, 1938 – Germany annex’s Austria
7. October 15, 1938 - Germany invades Sudetenland
8. March 15/16, 1939 - Germany invades Czechoslovakia
9. May 22, 1939 – Germany & Italy sign 'Pact of Steel'
10. Aug 23, 1939 – Germany & Soviet Union sign
‘Non-Aggression Pact’
11. September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland
(from the west)
12. September 17, 1939 - Soviets invade Poland
(from the east)
Definition: Diplomatic policy of making concessions in order to
avoid conflict
Used by Great Britain and France throughout Germany’s military aggression (1936-1939)
Munich Agreement – Hitler promised no further
aggression once Germany has the Sudetenland
Britain and France agree
Kellogg-Briand Pact- 1928 treaty w/62 countries; states war would not be used as national policy
U.S. policy in 1930’s = Isolationism - 1933 recognize Soviet Union - Good Neighbor Policy w/Latin America
Reciprocal Trade Agreement (1934)
- reduces tariffs to increase trade
Neutrality Acts (1935)- no arms sales to any nations at war- no loans to nations at war
Response to Japan’s attack on China - U.S. sends supplies to China - FDR speaks out against isolationism- Opinions are split in America
September 3, 1939 - Britain and France declare war on Germany (2 days after Invasion of Poland)
The Phony War (Sept. 1939 to May 1940) – period of
military aggression between Allied and Axis Powers
- Maginot Line: French and British built fortifications
along France’s eastern border
- Siegfried Line: German front line of troops a few
miles away from France’s border
1. Sept. – Nov. 1939 - Soviets invade & annex Latvia,
Lithuania, Estonia, & Finland
2. April 9, 1940 - Germany invades Denmark & Norway
3. May 10, 1949 - Germany invades France, Netherlands,
Belgium, & Luxembourg
4. June 10, 1940 - Italy declares war on Britain & France
5. June 22, 1940 - France surrenders to Germany
Cash & Carry Provision – (added to Neutrality Act of 1939) nations at war can buy arms from U.S. as long as they transport themselves
All Aid Short of War (1940) - U.S. supply Britain and France with large amounts of rifles, machine guns, & leased destroyers
Congress in 1940 increases Defense Spending upon FDR’s request
Selective Service & Training Act (1940)
- 1st peacetime draft
Lend-Lease Act (1941) – U.S. would lend or lease arms to nations whose defense was vital to the United States
Atlantic Charter (1941) - joint
declaration of war aims w/Britain
- collective security
- disarmament- self-determination- economic
cooperation- freedom of the seas
Issues with German Wolf Packs – to combat Lend-Lease Act Hitler
sends German U-Boats to prevent
delivery - Shoot on Sight – FDR’s command
to U.S. destroyer if U-Boat is seen