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From Versailles to Pearl Harbor

From Versailles to Pearl Harbor. The Road To War. The Treaty of Versailles. From left, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and US President Woodrow Wilson. Germany Faces Economic Collapse.

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From Versailles to Pearl Harbor

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  1. From Versailles to Pearl Harbor The Road To War

  2. The Treaty of Versailles From left, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and US President Woodrow Wilson

  3. Germany Faces Economic Collapse “Town Shelter,” a lithograph by Kathe Kollwitz that graphically depicts the misery of the poor in Germany following the economic collapse of 1923.

  4. German Inflation These children show that it takes 100,000 marks to buy one dollar. During World War I, Germany printed vast quantities of paper money in order to pay expenses, which resulted in runaway inflation in the early 1920’s.

  5. The Rise of Adolf Hitler Political poster of a man with a Nazi symbol on his belt breaking out of chains.

  6. Fascism in Italy Benito Mussolini addressing his Fascist followers in the Roman Colosseum.

  7. The Spanish Civil War Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, painted in 1937, which shows the brutality of the bombing and human suffering of the victims during the Spanish civil war.

  8. Japanese Militarism Japanese forces marching into the Chinese province of Manchuria

  9. Violation and Appeasement German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shaking hands.

  10. The Invasion of Czechoslovakia German tanks roll through a Sudeten street. The banner reads “Hail to our German borders!”

  11. World War II Begins A Huge swastika representing Germany rolling into Poland. This shows the continuing aggression of the Nazis following their invasion of Czechoslovakia.

  12. American Isolationism

  13. U.S. Support of Britain Crates from the United States being unloaded in England as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

  14. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor The explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941

  15. The U.S. Declares War The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war on Japan. There was only one vote cast against the declaration of war. Germany and Italy, Japan’s allies in the Axis Powers, declared war on the United States a couple of days later.

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