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The War Begins!. Honors US History 14.2. Appeasement. British PM Neville Chamberlain agrees to let Hitler occupy the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise of peace. Chamberlain thinks he has avoided war. Hitler ignores the promise. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939.
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The War Begins! Honors US History 14.2
Appeasement • British PM Neville Chamberlain agrees to let Hitler occupy the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise of peace. • Chamberlain thinks he has avoided war. • Hitler ignores the promise.
Rome-Berlin Axis, 1939 The “Pact of Steel”
The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov
Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]
France – False Sense of Security? The MaginotLine
A Divided France Henri Petain
The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis
America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh
Cash and Carry • What was it? • What was Roosevelt trying to do? • What did it lead to?
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
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.
The Pacific Theater
Imperial Dreams in Japan • Japan had long been jealous of the empires of the white, European countries. • Why shouldn’t the Japanese have their own empire in the Pacific? • Japan adopted the ways of the West and built up their industry and military during the Meiji period after first American contact. • Led by General Tojo (military) and Emperor Hirohito (spiritual).
Pacific – Anatomy of a war! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dARSvPDoJag
Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!
Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!
Douglas MacArthur Retreat to Bataan Peninsula “There are times when men have to die.” Henry Stimson - Secretary of War Philippines 1941 “ I shall return!” 10,000 Americans 60,000 Filipinos POWs