Transcript The Road To War

From Versailles to Pearl Harbor
The Road To War
The Treaty of Versailles
From left, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando,
French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and US President Woodrow Wilson
Germany Faces Economic Collapse
“Town Shelter,” a lithograph by Kathe Kollwitz that graphically depicts the
misery of the poor in Germany following the economic collapse of 1923.
German Inflation
These children show that it takes
100,000 marks to buy one dollar.
DuringWorldWar I, Germany
printed vast quantities of paper
money in order to pay expenses,
which resulted in runaway
inflation in the early 1920’s.
The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Political poster of a man with a
Nazi symbol on his belt breaking
out of chains.
Fascism in Italy
Benito Mussolini addressing his Fascist followers in the Roman Colosseum.
The Spanish Civil War
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, painted in 1937, which shows the brutality of the bombing
and human suffering of the victims during the Spanish civil war.
Japanese Militarism
Japanese forces marching into the Chinese province of Manchuria
Violation and Appeasement
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain shaking hands.
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
German tanks roll through a Sudeten street.The banner reads “Hail to our
German borders!”
World War II Begins
A Huge swastika representing
Germany rolling into Poland.This
shows the continuing aggression of
the Nazis following their invasion
of Czechoslovakia.
American Isolationism
U.S. Support of Britain
Crates from the
United States being
unloaded in England
as part of the LendLease Act.
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The explosion of the destroyer USS Shaw during the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941
The U.S. Declares War
The day after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor, Congress declared
war on Japan.There was only
one vote cast against the
declaration of war. Germany
and Italy, Japan’s allies in the
Axis Powers, declared war on the
United States a couple of days
later.