Transcript The Role of The Allies-Axis vs. Allies

Germany
Italy
Red=Height
of Axis
Territory
Japan
Alliances During World War II
I can explain how aggressive Axis
expansion led to World War II.
Axis Powers
 Italy
and Germany formed a pact to
oppose communism. [1936]
 Then Japan and Germany created
another pact against the Soviet
Union.
 In 1937, the three powers signed an
agreement of friendship and alliance.
Axis Powers

Called the Axis powers, they united against
communism and democracy.
Partner Question
1. What
3 countries
comprise the Axis
Powers?
NONAGGRESSION PACT: AUGUST 1939, AN
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE USSR AND
GERMANY IN WHICH THEY PROMISED
NOT TO ATTACK EACH OTHER.
THIS CAME AS A SHOCK BECAUSE
HITLER HATED COMMUNISM AND
STALIN HATED NAZISM.
THIS PACT FREED HITLER TO ATTACK
POLAND AND RISK A WAR WITH THE
ALLIES (UK AND FRANCE).
Partner Questions
 2. Who
is the nonaggression pact
between?
 3. What is the nonaggression pact?
 4. Why would Hitler risk a war
with the U.K. and France, but not
the Soviet Union? [Think
Geography]
Isolationism
Isolationism
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ISOLATIONISM: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS
WANTED TO STAY OUT OF THE WAR. THIS WAS
A CONTINUATION OF THE U.S. ISOLATIONISM
TRADITION WHICH PREVENTED THE U.S. FROM
HELPING THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES IN THEIR
STRUGGLE AGAINST HITLER.
NEUTRAL: WHAT THE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN
PEOPLE WANTED TO MAINTAIN AT THE START
OF WW II. MEANS NOT JOINING EITHER SIDE,
STAYING OUT OF THE FIGHTING.
Partner Question
5. Explain
U.S.
isolationism.
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Allies
In 1939, German forces attacked Poland.
France and Great Britain, allies that had guaranteed Polish
independence, declared war on Germany.
Change on
the horizon
with the
idea of
isolationism
in the U.S.
Lend Lease Act
 LEND
LEASE ACT: MARCH 1941,
ALLOWED THE PRESIDENT TO SELL,
LEND OR LEASE WAR MATERIALS TO
ANY NATION WHOSE DEFENSE WAS
VITAL TO U.S. SECURITY.
 IN REALITY THE U.S. GAVE WEAPONS
ONLY TO THE UK AND ABANDONED
NEUTRALITY.
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY: CONCEPT THAT THE U.S. WOULD
SUPPLY THE WEAPONS FOR THOSE FIGHTING AGAINST HITLER
AND JAPAN WHILE KEEPING ITS MEN OUT OF THE ACTUAL
FIGHTING.
Partner Questions
6. What
is the lend-lease
act?
7. Does the U.S. practice
neutrality with regards to
the lend-lease act? Explain.
Allies
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The next year, the German army swept across
France, soon forcing the French to surrender.
Look at
the
expression
of their
faces.
French Reaction
Allies
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Evacuation of the Children-London
The British now stood alone against Hitler, who tried
to bomb them into submission.
Britain’s air defense of its skies, called the Battle of
Britain, prevented Hitler from moving ahead with
plans for an invasion.
Allies
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In 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union—an action
that resulted in the Soviets and British becoming allies.
Japanese forces bombed the U.S. base in Pearl Harbor.
Soon the Allies (Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United
States) were all fighting against the Axis powers and their
allies.
Soviet
Union
United
States
Partner Questions
 8. Who
violated the nonaggression
pact?
 9. Who becomes allies because of the
violation of the nonaggression pact?
 10. What is the final straw to pull the
U.S. into World War II?
 11. What 3 countries comprise the
Allied Powers?
Journal Entry
 Entry
#20
 5/4/15
 Imagine you are at Pearl Harbor when
the surprise attack by the Japanese is
taking place. How would you adapt to
the unknown situation on the morning of
December 7th, 1941?