Neutrality Act

Land-Lease Act

Atlantic Charter

The AXIS Strategy War Around the Globe

Italy, Germany, and Japan define their targets

German Aggression

• Sept. 1, 1939 attack Poland

• June 1940 France falls

• Battle of Britain (Ends May 1941)

• Germany turns towards Soviet Union (June 1941)

Operation Barbarossa

• June 1941 Invades Soviet Union

• Targets Leningrad and Moscow

• By September Germans surrounded Leningrad. [More than 1 million die that winter]

• By December outside of Moscow. [Winter proved fatal for Germany as it did for Napoleon]

Russia had 5 million soldiers—but were poorly trained!

Japan

• Overcrowded and needed raw materials

• Japan wanted a Pacific Empire– 1931 Invaded Manchuria

– 1937 Invaded China

• Began expansion in Southeast Asia

China

Southeast

Asia

Manchuria

Italy Pursues North Africa

• Mussolini goal is to seize British controlled Egypt

• Suez Canal key to reaching Oil Fields

• Begins in Libya and moves into Egypt.

Suez Canal:

Access to OilLibya

Egypt

Philippines

Libya

Southeast Asia

World War II around the Globe

3 Theatres of War

European Northern Africa Pacific

Grid Handout

• What countries or areas of the world were Japan, Germany, and Italy each pursuing?

• What were the goals of each country in pursuing these targets?