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THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 1939-1945. PART I AND PART II. POSTWAR ISOLATIONISM & WAR CLOUDS. POSTWAR ISOLATIONISM. “YOU DIDN’T JUST WANT A SURRENDER OF THE UNITED STATES. THAT’S WHY YOU DIDN’T CARE FOR THE LEAGUE, WHICH IS NOW DECEASED” -HARDING VICTORY SPEECH 1920
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THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945
PART I AND PART II POSTWAR ISOLATIONISM & WAR CLOUDS
POSTWAR ISOLATIONISM • “YOU DIDN’T JUST WANT A SURRENDER OF THE UNITED STATES. THAT’S WHY YOU DIDN’T CARE FOR THE LEAGUE, WHICH IS NOW DECEASED” -HARDING VICTORY SPEECH 1920 • SPIRIT OF ISOLATIONISM: HIGHER TARIFF WALLS, THE RED SCARE, RESTRICTIVE IMMIGRATION LAWS, WAR-DEBT TANGLE • INDIRECT INVOLVEMENT LEAGUE OF NATIONS (1922)
WAR DEBTS AND REPARATIONS • BRITISH: AMERICAN REVOLUTION-AMERICANS REPUDIATED DEBTS TO BRITISH • FRENCH: AMERICAN REVOLUTION-AMERICANS DID NOT REPAY FRENCH FOR HELP IN DEFEATING BRITS • BRITISH/FRENCH WOULD PAY U.S. WHEN GERMANS PAY • GREAT DEPRESSION….
DISARMAMENT • JAPAN’S TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS – INCREASED JAPANESE CONTROL IN CHINA • WASHINGTON ARMAMENTS CONFERENCE • REDUCE ARMS, SEC. STATE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES • FIVE POWER (1922), FOUR-POWER , NINE-POWER TREATIES • LIMITS ARMS DEVELOPMENT (NAVY) • PARTITION WORLD • REFRAIN FROM FORTIFICATION OF POSSESSIONS • RESPECT OTHERS’ POSSESSIONS • SUPPORT OPEN DOOR POLICY – EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA
KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT (1928)“THE PACT OF PARIS” • “OUTLAW WAR” • FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER ARISTIDE BRIAND • SEC. STATE FRANK B. KELLOGG • “CONDEMN RECOURSE TO WAR…RENOUNCE IT AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POLICY” • PRESERVE MONROE DOCTRINE “WE CAN OUTLAW THIS WAR SYSTEM JUST AS WE OUTLAWED SLAVERY AND THE SALOON”
GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY • FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT POLICY - LESS INTERVENTION IN LATIN AMERICA • BEGAN TO WITHDRAW FORCES FROM NICARAGUA, HAITI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC • PAY COLUMBIA FOR PANAMA CANAL RIGHTS ($25 MILLION)
MANCHURIA INCIDENT • JAPANESE AGGRESSION • MILITARY RUNNING GOVERNMENT • INVADE MANCHURIA 1931 • CHINA SOUGHT HELP FROM U.S. (FROM NINE-POWER TREATY, KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT, LEAGUE OF NATIONS; JAPAN IN VIOLATION OF ALL) • STIMSON DOCTRINE (1932) – SEC. OF STATE HENRY STIMSON - U.S. REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE ANY TREATY, AGREEMENT, SITUATION THAT VIOLATED AMERICAN TREATY RIGHTS, OPEN DOOR, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF CHINA
ITALY • FASCIST DICTATOR, WAR VETERAN BENITO MUSSOLINI • SUPPRESSED ALL POLITICAL OPPOSITION • IL DUCE (THE LEADER) • ITALY A DECLINING POWER
BODIES OF BENITO MUSSOLINI AND CLARA PETACCI (MISTRESS) HANG IN MILAN APRIL, 1945 ALSO PICTURE SEC OF FASCIST PARTY ACHILLE STARACE
GERMANY • NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY WORKERS’ PARTY (NAZI) • OVERTOOK WEIMAR REPUBLIC DURING DEPRESSION • HITLER CHANCELLOR 1933 • HITLER REICHSFUHRER (NATIONAL LEADER) 1934 • POLICE STATE HEIGHTENED UNDER S.S. • HITLER PROMISED TO FULFILL THE DESTINY OF GERMANY
AMERICA • AMERICANS INCREASINGLY ISOLATIONIST • FDR RENOUNCES HIS EARLIER SUPPORT OF U.S. ENTRANCE TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS • SEC. OF STATE CORDELL HULL SUCCESSFULLY PROMOTES ‘FREE TRADE AMONG ALL NATIONS” (REPEAL TARIFFS) – TRADE AGREEMENT ACT (1934) • U.S. RENEWS DIPLOMACY WITH RUSSIA
CHAIN OF EVENTS • 1934 – JAPAN RENOUNCES FIVE-POWER TREATY • 1935 – MUSSOLINI CONQUERS ETHIOPIA; GERMANY ANNEXES SAAR BASIN (COAL RICH-AGAINST VERSAILLES) • 1936 – SPANISH CIVIL WAR – FRANCISCO FRANCO INSITUTES FASCIST DICTATORSHIP IN SPAIN • 1937 – JAPAN V. CHINA, W. OF BEIJING (MARCO-POLO BRIDGE) – FULL SCALE WAR IN ASIA (TWO YEARS BEFORE EUROPE); ANTI-COMINTERN PACT ESTABLISHED (ANTI-COMMUNIST): ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO “AXIS” – “AXIS POWERS”
CHAIN OF EVENTS (CONT.) • 1938 – GERMAN ANSCHLUSS (UNION) OF AUSTRIA; GERMANY TAKES OVER SUDETENLAND FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA • 1939 – GERMANS OCCUPY REMAINDER OF CZECHOSLOVIA AND SEIZE TERRITORY (FORMERLY GERMAN) FROM LITHUANIA; SPANISH REPUBLIC COLLAPSES; MUSSOLINI CONQUERS ALBANIA • SUMMER, 1939 – HITLER OCCUPIES DANZIG, POLISH CORRIDOR • 23 AUGUST 1939 – NAZI/SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT (ALSO KNOWN AS MOLOTOV/RIBBENTROP PACT, FOREIGN MINISTERS OF SOVIET UNION /GERMANY) • 1 SEPTEMBER 1939 – HITLER INVADES POLAND
SIGNING OF THE NAZI/SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT - 1939 RIBBENTROP STALIN MOLOTOV
FRANCE/BRITAIN • APPEASEMENT OF HITLER • RELUCTANCE TO GO TO WAR • AFTER INVASION OF POLAND, DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY • “BRITAIN HAS BEEN FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WAR AND SHAME. SHE HAS CHOSEN SHAME AND WILL GET WAR” -CHURCHILL
UNITED STATES • WWI ENTRANCE OUT OF GREED “MERCHANTS OF DEATH” • ROOSEVELT SIGNS FIVE NEUTRALITY ACTS MEANT TO KEEP U.S. OUT OF WAR (FIRST 1935) • NO LOANS, WEAPONS, FORBADE TRAVEL ON WARRING NATION’S SHIPS, U.S. MERCHANTS SHIPS NOT ARMED • CASH AND CARRY – PURCHASE GOODS IN CASH, CARRY AWAY IN OWN SHIPS • “WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT IS TO BE AS UN-NEUTRAL AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE WAR” --EDITOR OF THE NATION
FORESHADOWING OF COMING EVENTS… • 12 DECEMBER 1937 • AMERICAN GUNBOAT PANAY SUNK BY JAPANESE FORCES • LYING AT ANCHOR IN CHINA ON YANGTZE (CHANG) RIVER, FLYING AMERICAN FLAG • THREE AMERICAN OIL TANKERS ALSO ATTACKED • TWO MEMBERS OF PANAY CREW AND ITALIAN JOURNALIST DIED • INCREASED ANTI-JAPANESE SENTIMENT IN U.S. • PRIVATE BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOOD SPREAD