World War Looms. Treaty of Versailles Stalin & the Soviet Union Totalitarian.
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The Soviet Union Declares Neutrality
By March 1939,German troops occupy rest of Czechoslovakia
Hitler eyes Poland – would bring two-front war
Stalin & Hitler sign nonaggression pact—will not attack each other
Sign second, secret pact agreeing to divide Poland between them
Soldiers in foxhole
Blitzkrieg in Poland
Sept. 1939, Hitler overruns Poland in blitzkrieg, lightning war
Germany annexes western Poland; U.S.S.R. attacks, annexes east; Poland ceased to exist
On September 3, 1939 in response to the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany.
The Phony WarFrench, British
soldiers on Maginot Line face Germans in sitzkrieg (sitting war)
Stalin annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; defeats Finland
1940, Hitler invades Denmark, Norway, then Low Countries
The Fall of FranceBritish, French
trapped on Dunkirk; ferried to safety in UK
1940, Italy invades France from south; Germans approach Paris
France falls; Germans occupy northern France
Nazi puppet government set up in southern France
General Charles de Gaulle sets up government-in-exile in England
The Battle of Britain
Summer 1940, Germany prepares fleet to invade Britain
Battle of Britain—German planes bomb British targets
Britain uses radar to track, shoot down German planes
Hitler calls off invasion of Britain
Germans, British continue to bomb each other’s cities
AMERICA MOVES TOWARD WAR
•Roosevelt pushes Congress to pass the cash and carry policy
•Germany, Italy and Japan sign a mutual defense treaty, The Tripartite Pact (Axis Powers)
•The Selective Service is enacted; boosted defense spending
•1940 Roosevelt proposes the Lend Lease Act
•June 1941 Hitler breaks agreement with Soviet Union and invades
•Germany sub attacks on U.S. ships
• Churchill and Roosevelt meet for the Atlantic Charter- Allied Nations; undeclared naval war with Germany
The attack on Pearl Harbor
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A Day that will live in Infamy
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Timeline of Pearl Harbor
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Bits and Pieces Japan had already
invaded China, ManchuriaIndochina
U. S. cuts off trade with Japan- no fuel or oil
Tojo orders navy to prepare for an attack
180 warplanes attack Pearl Harbor
Killed 2,403 Americans; sank or damaged 21 ships; including 8 battleships; 300 aircraft damanged
Roosevelt addressed Congress, “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date that will live in infamy…”