Transcript prelude to wwii - OCPS TeacherPress

PRELUDE TO
WORLD WAR II
The Rise of Totalitarianism
Aggression by Dictatorships
1929- The Kellogg-Briand Pact
1931- Japan seizes Manchuria
1933- Hitler and the Nazi Party come to power in Germany
1935- Italy invades Ethiopia
1936- Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland
Americans were determined to stay neutral and avoid another
war in Europe. WWI had left many disillusioned
Mussolini and Hitler
The last Chinese
Emperor becomes
leader of the
Japanese puppet
state Manchuko
A Loyalist soldier is killed
in the war in Ethiopia
American Neutrality
1934- The Nye Committee Report
The U.S. Congress passes a series of neutrality acts
1936- The Spanish Civil War
President Roosevelt tried to find ways to help the nations
threatened by Agression
1935- Hitler begins discrimination against Jews
Nuremburg Laws
Crystal Night
1938- Hitler annexes Austria
1939- the Munich Conference and appeasement
Picasso’s Guernica
Stuka Divebomber
First used in the Spanish
Civil War
Jewish synagogue burning in
Germany during Crystal Night
Jewish shop after
Crystal Night
World war II Begins in Europe
1939- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
the invasion of Poland; the “blitzkrieg”
the beginning of Hitler’s “Final Solution”
The Phony War
The Fall of France and Dunkirk
The Battle of Britain
The U.S. sends supplies to Britain
The Great Depression ends
The German blitzkrieg
combined the use of air
power, tanks, and infantry
British troops wait for evacuation on the beach at Dunkirk in 1939
British Hurricane fighter
British Spitfire fighter
War planes of the Battle of Britain
German ME 109 fighter
Messerscmidt 110 Bomber