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The War Begins!

The War Begins!. Honors US History 14.2. Appeasement. British PM Neville Chamberlain agrees to let Hitler occupy the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise of peace. Chamberlain thinks he has avoided war. Hitler ignores the promise. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939.

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The War Begins!

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  1. The War Begins! Honors US History 14.2

  2. Appeasement • British PM Neville Chamberlain agrees to let Hitler occupy the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise of peace. • Chamberlain thinks he has avoided war. • Hitler ignores the promise.

  3. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

  4. German Expansion to WWII

  5. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1939 The “Pact of Steel”

  6. The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

  7. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

  8. German Troops March into Warsaw

  9. European Theater of Operations

  10. France – False Sense of Security? The MaginotLine

  11. Maginot Line

  12. The “Phoney War” Ends:Spring, 1940

  13. Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

  14. France SurrendersJune, 1940

  15. A Divided France Henri Petain

  16. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

  17. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

  18. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

  19. The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

  20. The Royal Air Force

  21. Now Britain Is All Alone!

  22. U. S. Neutrality Acts:1934, 1935, 1937, 1939

  23. America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh

  24. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis:The Tripartite PactSeptember, 1940

  25. Cash and Carry • What was it? • What was Roosevelt trying to do? • What did it lead to?

  26. Norman Rockwell

  27. U. S. Lend-Lease Act,1941 Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union...........................$11 billionFrance......................................$ 3 billionChina.......................................$1.5 billionOther European.................$500 millionSouth America...................$400 millionThe amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

  28. Lend-Lease

  29. The Atlantic Charter • Roosevelt and Churchill sign treaty of friendship in August 1941. • Solidifies alliance. • Fashioned after Wilson’s 14 Points. • Calls for League of Nations type organization.

  30. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

  31. United StatesEnters the War14.3

  32. The Pacific Theater

  33. Imperial Dreams in Japan • Japan had long been jealous of the empires of the white, European countries. • Why shouldn’t the Japanese have their own empire in the Pacific? • Japan adopted the ways of the West and built up their industry and military during the Meiji period after first American contact. • Led by General Tojo (military) and Emperor Hirohito (spiritual).

  34. Pacific – Anatomy of a war! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dARSvPDoJag

  35. The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937

  36. Rape of Nanking

  37. Pearl Harbor

  38. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

  39. Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

  40. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

  41. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

  42. USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

  43. Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!

  44. “Tokyo Rose”

  45. Singapore Surrenders[February, 1942]

  46. Douglas MacArthur Retreat to Bataan Peninsula “There are times when men have to die.” Henry Stimson - Secretary of War Philippines 1941 “ I shall return!” 10,000 Americans 60,000 Filipinos POWs

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