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Munich Pustch
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler elected in Germany in 1933
(remember the Treaty of
Versailles)
Antisemitism, nationalism,
militarism, and anti-communism
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1936 Re-militirized the Rhineland
1938 Took Austria
Germany wanted to take the
Sudentenland (near Czechoslovakia)
English and French leaders gave it to
Hitler (after Munich conference), in
exchange for a promise not to annex any
other land
Condemned Germany, but did nothing
Japan attacked China, US reaction is the
same
Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937• Made no distinction between aggressor and
victim (Italy and Ethiopia)
Wanted to expel Europeans from Asia so
they could call the shots
Invaded Manchuria in 1931
Attack mainland China in 1937• Rape of Nanking, 200,000 to 300, 000 civilians
Night of Broken Glass 1938
Polish Jew assassinated a German
diplomat in Paris.
Germans destroyed hundreds of
synagogues
91 Jews killed, ~20,000 arrested
Soviet Union and Germany (Aug. 1939) To the chancellor of the German Reich, Herr A.
Hitler. I thank you for your letter. I hope that the
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact will mark a
decisive turn for the better in the political
relations between our two countries. .
J. Stalin*
Invasion of Poland by Germans
Britain and France declare war on
Germany
Blitzkrieg (Lightning War)
By May 1940 Germany had taken France
(it took 4 years in WWI)
You are Winston Churchill (UK). You have
broken some of the German code and
Intelligence says an attack is coming, but
the Germans seem confused about where
your factories and air fields are. You can
either build up defense around your
bases or sit and wait.
You are Adolf Hitler. You have little
intelligence to tell you where the British
airforce bases are. You can either attack
where you think the bases are or destroy
the city of London.
The US began to prepare for war• 19,000 warplanes, 150 ships
• First peacetime draft (16.5 million men)
Election
• 3rd term???
• No American will fight in a foreign war, but if
attacked the war would not be “foreign”
anymore
Lend-Lease Act (March 1941)
Submarine warfare
Atlantic Charter (Aug „41)• Germany is first priority, Japan second
• US and Britain will work together
US creates a navy for both Atlantic and
Pacific oceans
Japan builds navy, US cuts off steel export
Japan takes Vietnam, US puts up a
blockade
2,345 killed
“A Date which will Live in Infamy”
Imagine that FDR had enough spy
intelligence to know that Japan would
attack Pearl Harbor. Do you:
Save the lives and stay out of the war?
Sacrifice the people in order to join the
war?
They can go all out for ~ 6 months
Germany may last longer
They attack Russia in June 1941
This opens a Two-Front war
Turning point of the European war
Germans move forward, but run out of
supplies
Germans forced to give up
Almost 2 million causalities, lasted 199
days
**Soviets lost more people in this 1 battle
than the US lost in the entire war
Atlantic Ocean German U-boats destroy
American and British ships (they worked
in “wolfpacks”)
By 1943 Allies use planes and radar to
shoot U-boats when they surface
Also, US mass produces ships (good for
the economy!)
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