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World War II

World War II. The Road to War: 1919-1939. The Versailles Treaty. A Weak League of Nations. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations. No control of major conflicts No progress in disarmament. No effective military force. The “ Stab-In-The-Back ” Theory.

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. The Road to War: 1919-1939

  3. The Versailles Treaty

  4. A Weak League of Nations

  5. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations • No control of major conflicts • No progress in disarmament. • No effective military force.

  6. The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied.

  7. Decadence of the Weimar Republic

  8. France – False Sense of Security? The MaginotLine

  9. International Agreements • Locarno Pact – 1925 • France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy • Guarantee existing frontiers • Establish DMZ 30 miles deep on East bank of Rhine River • Refrain from aggression against each other • Kellog-Briand Pact – 1928 • Makes war illegal as a tool of diplomacy • No enforcement provisions

  10. The Great Depression

  11. The Manchurian Crisis, 1931

  12. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

  13. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

  14. Germany Invades the RhinelandMarch 7, 1936

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

  16. America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh

  17. The Austrian Anschluss, 1936

  18. The Spanish Civil War:1936 - 1939 The National Front[Nationalists] The Popular Front[Republicans] • Anarcho-Syndicalists. • Basques. • Catalans. • Communists. • Marxists. • Republicans. • Socialists. • Carlists [ultra-Catholic monarchists]. • Catholic Church. • Falange [fascist] Party. • Monarchists.

  19. The Spanish Civil War:1936 - 1939

  20. The Spanish Civil War

  21. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 The American “Lincoln Brigade”

  22. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 Francisco Franco

  23. The Spanish Civil War:A Dress Rehearsal for WW II? Italian troops in Madrid

  24. “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

  25. The “Problem” of theSudetenland

  26. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

  27. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

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

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

  30. The War Begins!

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

  32. German Troops March into Warsaw

  33. The European & North African Theaters

  34. European Theater of Operations

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

  36. Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

  37. France SurrendersJune, 1940

  38. A Divided France Henri Petain

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

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

  41. Now Britain Is All Alone!

  42. 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

  43. Lend-Lease

  44. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

  45. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

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

  47. The Royal Air Force

  48. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

  49. 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.

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