Transcript Pearl Harbor - Scott County Schools

Hitler Ignores Versailles Treaty
See’s the League
did nothing to
Japan- build up
army.
 League could not
stop him
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 Actually makes Hitler
more confident
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Rhineland
 Buffer between
Germany and France
 Hitler invades despite
warnings
Austria & Sudetenland
March 1938 German troops march into
Austria
 Munich Agreement
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 Hitler invited French premier
& British prime ministerChamberlain to meet
 Hitler only wanted the
Sudetenland
 Appeasement
Was Hitler
really done?
Poland
Hitler set his sights on
Poland
 Hitler signs Nonaggression
Pact with Stalin
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 Why?
 Secret plan: Germany and
Soviet Union agreed to divide
Poland.
Sept. 1, 1939-Blitzkrieg- “lightning war”fast tanksfast planes- Germans done in
3 weeks.
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*Stalin sent Soviet troops to occupy the Eastern
half of Poland
 Sept.
3, 1939- France
& Britain declare war
Phony War
French & British soldiers waiting for German
soldiers to invade France
 German soldiers waiting for French & British
soldiers to invade Germany.
 Sneaky Germans invade France through wooded
area (Ardennes Forest)
 Germans trap 400,000 French soldiers
 1940 Italy enters war- invades France from south
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U.S.
Helps
Cash and Carry- U.S. sells weapons to nations at
war:
 Pay cash & transport weapons in own ships
○ Why?
 Lend-Lease Act- March 1941-lend arms
to any country whose defense was vital to the U.S.
*Are we an isolationist country at this point?
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*So much for Hitler & Stalin’s budding friendship!
 U.S. gives aid to Stalin after Hitler invades U.S.S.R
 “If Hitler invaded Hell, we would be willing to work with
the devil himself” ~Winston Churchill
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FDR popular but his foreign policy was not liked
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Atlantic Charter- England & U.S. - U.S. did not
join the war, but agreed on war aims
 Collective security, freedom of the seas, disarmament…
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Oct. 1941-German U-boats fire on U.S. Ships
 Roosevelt ordered the Navy to shoot U-boats on sight
 U.S. destroyer Reuben James sunk- killing 100 sailors
By Oct. 1941 the U.S. is in an
undeclared war with Nazi
Germany in the Atlantic
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Militaristic Japan
Emperor reigns but doesn’t
rule
 1920’s extreme military leaders
attempted to overthrow the
emperor.
 Great Depression put blame on
government
 Unsuccessful
 Military leaders launch surprise
attack on China anyway
 In Manchuria
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 Why would Japan want to invade another
country?
Manchukuo1931
 Within months Japan’s military
controlled this area
 Set up a “puppet government”
Why didn’t China win against tiny
Japan?
 Back in 1912- Democracy
established in China
 Chiang Kai-shek (democratic)
could not defeat the Japanese
○ Better equipped and trained (westernization)
 Conquer Beijing and Nanjing
 The Democratic Chinese set up new capital in west and
continue to fight Mao Zedong (a Chinese communist)
Fast Forward To 1937
---Six Years Later
Japanese
Militarists
 By 1935- all Chinese agree to fight together
 July 1937- Japan invades China again
 Japan takes the Marco Polo Bridge
Japan moves south- into Indochina
 Hideki Tojo leader of military becomes
Japan’s Prime Minister
 U.S. - Japan Negotiations
 U.S. wants Japan to retreat to
Manchukuo
 U.S. cuts off trade with Japan- 1 very important
resource?!? WRITE IT DOWN!!!
 What problems would this bring about for
Japan?
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Japan Prepares
Ship charter in Pearl Harbor
Japan scouted many areas in the
South Pacific for an attack.
 Japan was not wanting to go to war,
instead the militarists wanted to show
the U.S. that Japan was a force to be
reckoned with.
 Japan wanted one BIG attack in order
for the U.S. to give in.
 Meanwhile, the U.S. freezes all
Japanese bank accounts in U.S.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
U.S. broke codes knew Japan was going to attack in the
South Pacific.
 December 7, 1941- Early morning Surprise
 180 Japanese warplanes
 1 hour and 30 minutes
 Japanese 80% success
 2,403 Americans killed &
1,178 wounded
 Sunk/damaged 21 U.S. ships
 300 airplanes damaged
 Japan thought the U.S. would negotiate spheres of
influence
 December 8, 1941- U.S. declares war on Japan
 December 11, 1941- Germany & Italy declare war on U.S.
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