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Prelude to Global War
Chapter 24 Section 1
Fascism and Nazism
• Totalitarian
– Fascism
• Benito “Il Duce” Mussolini Controls Italy
– The Blackshirts
– Becomes Dictator
– Invades Ethiopia
• Adolf Hitler Rules Germany
– Hitler joins National Socialist German Worker’s
Party (Nazis Party)
– Attempted to take over Germany in 1923
– Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”)
• Blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
• Encouraged increase in military
• Aryan race
– Der Fuhrer (“the leader”)
• Nazi party gains strength during the Great Depression
• Hitler become dictator
Europe Goes to War
• German troops move into the
Rhineland
• Axis Powers – Germany and Italy
• The German Empire Grows
– March 1938, Austria annexed
– Sudetenland
• Munich Conference
• France and Britain’s appeasement
– Czechoslovakia
• Soviet Union
– Poland
• September 1, 1939 – Hitler invades Poland
• Britain and France declare war on Germany
Europe Goes to War (cont.)
• Blitzkrieg (“lighting war”)
– Hitler takes Poland in less than a month
– Stalin takes half of Poland for the Soviet
Union
• Sitzkrieg (“sit-down war”)
– French build up the Maginot Line
• April 9, 1940 – Hitler attacks Denmark
and Norway
• May 10 – Germany attacks Netherlands,
Belgium, and France
– Take’s Paris on June 14, 1940
• The Battle of Britain
– Luftwaffe vs. Royal Air Force (RAF)
– June 1940 – June 1941
Japan
• Japan Builds and Empire
– Begins to take over China
and other parts of Asia
during the 1930’s and early
1940’s
– 1931 takes Manchuria
– Tripartite Pact
• Japan joins Axis Powers
• 1941 – separate peace with
Soviet Union
The American Response
• FDR moves Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• America Remains Neutral
– Isolationism
– Neutrality Acts – “cash and carry”
• American Involvement Grows
– Selective Service Act
– Roosevelt wins third term
– Lend-Lease Act
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
• U.S. warns Japan about
further movements in
Asia
• December 7, 1941 – “a
date which will live in
infamy”
– U.S. declares war on
Japan
• U.S. enters World War II
– Germany and Italy
declare war on the U.S.