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World War II. Versailles, June 1919. From left to right: Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France President Woodrow Wilson of the United States. The Versailles Treaty. Land Reparations
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Versailles, June 1919 • From left to right: • Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain • Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy • Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France • President Woodrow Wilson of the United States
The Versailles Treaty • Land • Reparations • War guilt • League of Nations
The Versailles Treaty (continued) • German army reduced • Germany barred from having tanks, an air force, or submarines • Occupied DMZ west of the Rhineland Map showing German territory lost and the Rhineland DMZ
The League of Nations Although President Wilson was the driving force behind the creation of the League of Nations, the United States did not join it.
Rise of the Nazis • Germany’s economic woes • Political instability • Fascism • National Socialist German Workers’ Party
The Nazis promoted a view of Germany as surrounded by enemies and threatened on all sides
The Nazis Gain Power Hitler sworn in as Chancellor, 1933
Italy Dictator Benito Mussolini addresses his followers
The Invasion of Ethiopia Emperor Hailie Selassie of Ethiopia
Germany Rearms German troops march back into the Rhineland, 1936
Building an Axis Signing of Tripartite pact to form the Axis Alliance Hitler and Mussolini Rome-Berlin Axis
The Spanish Civil War Generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Moré, leaders of the coup
Spanish Civil War (continued) Italian soldiers in Spain
New Weapons and Tactics Hitler tests weapons in Spanish Civil War
Germany Takes Austria Nazi troops enter Austria
The Munich Conference British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) and Hitler confer at the Munich Conference A weeping Czech woman reluctantly salutes Nazi soldiers as they march into the Sudetenland
American Foreign Policy, 1932–1941 • Isolationism • Neutrality Acts • FDR • Lend-Lease • The Atlantic Charter Churchill and FDR at sea during the Atlantic Charter talks
Germany TakesFrance • France surrenders, 1940 • The French Resistance A Frenchman weeps as German troops march into Paris
The Battle of Britain A London air raid shelter
Japanese Aggression General Hideki Tojo Locations of Japanese forces in November 1941
The U.S. Declares War FDR signs the declaration of war against Japan
The Battle of Midway The USS Yorktown receives a direct hit during the battle of Midway
Italy Surrenders Allies enter Rome
The D-Day Invasion U.S. troops wade ashore at Normandy
The Liberation of Paris Paris, 1944
The Battle of the Bulge An American soldier guards German troops captured during the Battle of the Bulge U.S. troops advance through the snow toward the town of St. Vith, Belgium
The Pacific War, 1944–1945 U.S. soldiers raise the American flag after capturing Iwo Jima
Birth of the Atomic Bomb Preparing the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima
Total War • Concept of “total war” • Mobilizing the economy • Rationing • Women in the work force • Propaganda • Military tactics Two old women stand amidst the ruins of an almshouse in Berkshire, England
Mobilizing the Economy A worker inspects 1000-pound bomb cases
Rationing and Victory Gardens • Gasoline, coffee, sugar, meat, other goods are rationed • “Victory Gardens” and other measures
Propaganda Journalists interview Tokyo Rose