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It’s baby Hitler!
Rise of the Dictators
• Dictators seek to solve
political/economic
instability through total
control and military
conquest
– Joseph Stalin (Russia)
– Mussolini (Italy)
– Hitler (Germany)
– Tojo (Japan)
Good Morning!!
1. NVC
2. U.S. Entry into WWII: Neutrality to War
3. Attack on Pearl Harbor: Conspiracy?
Essential Question(s): How did the United States
enter WWII?, Did the US have prior knowledge of
the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Homework: Finish Pearl Harbor activity if necessary
WWII Begins
• Dictators test the
League of Nations
– Military actions by Japan
and Italy in China and
Ethiopia
• 1938 European policy of
Appeasement: give in
to demands to avoid
conflict
• 1939 Germany and
Russia invade Poland
– WWII begins
Where is the United States?
• Neutrality Acts (19351937)
– Prevents US from
supplying “arms,
ammunition, or
implements of war” to
nations in conflict
– Most Americans are
happy to stay out of war
FDR: a Pro-War President
• President Franklin D.
Roosevelt sees war as
necessary
• Four Freedoms Speech
1. Freedom of Speech
and Expression
2. Freedom to worship
God in your own way
3. Freedom from want
4. Freedom from fear
“Our support goes to those who struggle to gain
those rights or keep them”—Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Road to War
• 1937 US puts economic
sanctions on Japan
– Cripples Japanese war
economy
• 1941 Lend-Lease
Agreement with Allies
– Provide war materials to
Britain, China, France
• December 7, 1941
Japan attacks Pearl
Harbor
Pearl Harbor
• Results
– 2500 Americans killed
– 1800 wounded
– 21 Ships sunk
• Effects
– U.S. declares war on
Japan
– Italy and Germany
declare war on the U.S.
Conspiracy?!
• Did the United States have prior knowledge of
the attack on Pearl Harbor?
– Did we LET it happen?!