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How did the Great Depression help c ause WWII?

How did the Great Depression help c ause WWII?. Isolationist. Give the Philippines their freedom FDR = “Big Stick Policy” is WRONG (too much money) Removed Troops from Cuba, Panama, Haiti America reversed its Imperialist ideas to conserve its time and money for domestic problems in the 1930s.

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How did the Great Depression help c ause WWII?

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  1. How did the Great Depression help cause WWII?

  2. Isolationist • Give the Philippines their freedom • FDR = “Big Stick Policy” is WRONG (too much money) • Removed Troops from Cuba, Panama, Haiti • America reversed its Imperialist ideas to conserve its time and money for domestic problems in the 1930s

  3. Totalitarian Governments • Totalitarian Government = the individual and his/her rights are nothing; the only thing that matters is the state. • Joseph Stalin • Adolf Hitler • Benito Mussolini • Due to economic disaster, the people looked for a “different” kind of government to fix their problems

  4. European Alliances • Germany and Italy make an alliance (1936) • Japan joins them in 1940 (military dictatorship) • The Triparte Pact (Axis Powers) start to expand their countries influence (Imperialism) • The United States will respond with Neutrality Acts in 1935, 36, 37. • America refused to be dragged into war like World War I, not matter what other countries are doing.

  5. Spanish Civil War (1936-39) • General Francisco Franco will lead a fascist revolution supported by Hitler and Mussolini against the democratic government of Spain • Again, Spain was almost collapsed from the worldwide Depression, people wanted a new government. • Hitler used Spain as his “trial run” for his military goals in Europe. • The United States responded with nothing – Isolationist • American actually started to weaken their military (cost too much money)

  6. Japanese Invasion of China • Japan invaded China in 1937 (natural resources) • US actually sold war materials to both Japan and China • “Rape of Nanking” • Japan attacked the American gunboat the Punay • Two killed and 30 wounded • Japan apologized and paid a fine. Then tortured Americans in China to kick out “western influence” • America stayed isolationist

  7. Hitler’s Anti-Jewish Rhetoric • Germany started rounding up its own Jewish citizens into “ghettoes” • The world new of Hitler’s plan for a master race from his work in Mein Kampf • Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia - nobody stopped him • Germany and Russia signed a Non-Aggression Pact (1939) • Hitler invaded Poland (1939), Britain and France responded declaring war on Germany • Germany rounded up all the Jews throughout Poland into Ghettoes • United States passed the Neutrality Act of 1939 • The United States would now sell war materials to both sides on a “cash and carry” basis • To prevent another “Lusitania” castastrophe

  8. Fall of France (1940) • Hitler’s blitzkreigcampaign swept through France in 2 months • Now that England was the only European country standing between Germany and the United States • FDR now called to build the military and created the draft in 1940.

  9. Jewish Refugees? • Many Jewish refugees tried to escape Europe from the terror they were experiencing • The United States refused to admit the Jewish refugees (Anti-Semitic)

  10. Election of 1940 • FDR will run for a historic “third term” claiming the country needed a stable Presidency to deal with the Great Depression and the coming crisis in Europe • FDR wins easily • Germany starts to bomb England – Battle of Britain • Created the Lend-Lease Bill – 50 billion dollars worth of aid to the Allies • The United States is now officially NO LONGER ISOLATIONIST

  11. Problems with Japan • Japan was becoming an Imperialist nation in Asia, and taking over all the countries previously conquered by America • In protest, the United States cut off all supplies of Oil to Japan – strangling their economy • Japan planned an attack against the United States • Code breakers knew Japan would attack, they just did not think it would happen in Hawaii as an all out attack

  12. Pearl Harbor • December 7th, 1941 – “a date that will live in infamy” • Japanese Kamikaze attacks • 3,000 Americans and several ships destroyed • December 8th, 1941 - America declared war on Japan • In which Germany and Italy then declared war on the United States.

  13. America at War • The United States will first gear up for war against the Japanese. • “Island hopping” • The United States then entered Africa in 1942 - General Eisenhower • D-Day – June 6, 1944 – The United States invaded Europe in Normandy, France

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