By: Ms. Susan M. PojerBy: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NYHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

By: Ms. Susan M. PojerBy: Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NYHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

Additional material by Molly Lynde

The Versailles TreatyThe Versailles Treaty

The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations

The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations

No control of major conflicts. No progress in disarmament. No effective military force.

Decadence of the Weimar Republic

Decadence of the Weimar Republic

France – False Sense of Security?

France – False Sense of Security?

The MaginotThe MaginotLineLine

Important Dates1931- Japan invades Manchuria1935- Italy invades Ethopia1936- Rome- Berlin Pact1936-1939 Spanish Civil War1936/37- Japan takes Nanjing China1936- Hitler takes Rhineland1938- Hitler takes Austria1938- Hitler takes Sudetenland1938- Munich Agreement/ Appeasement1939- Hitler takes Czhechoslovakia

The Great DepressionThe Great Depression

Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935

Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935

Emperor Haile

Selassie

Germany Invades the Rhineland

March 7, 1936

Germany Invades the Rhineland

March 7, 1936

U. S. Neutrality Acts:1934, 1935, 1937, 1939

U. S. Neutrality Acts:1934, 1935, 1937, 1939

Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936

The “Pact of Steel ”

The Spanish Civil War:A Dress Rehearsal for WW II?

The Spanish Civil War:A Dress Rehearsal for WW II?

Italian troops in Madrid

The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

Francisco Franco

The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937

The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937

The Austrian Anschluss, 1938The Austrian Anschluss, 1938

The “Problem” of theSudetenland

The “Problem” of theSudetenland

Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938

Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938

Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do

business with.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939

The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939

Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop &

Molotov

Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939

Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939

Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

German Troops March into Warsaw

German Troops March into Warsaw

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940

The Tripartite Pact

European Theater of Operations

European Theater of Operations

The Phony War EndsThe Phony War Ends

Hitler invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.With everyone’s attention on Hitler’s sweep of these nations he sent an even larger force into France through the Ardrennes Forest, avoiding the Maginot Line - a system of fortifications along France’s border with Germany. Allied forces and German forces stared at each other. Became known as Stizkrieg

Hitler invaded Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.With everyone’s attention on Hitler’s sweep of these nations he sent an even larger force into France through the Ardrennes Forest, avoiding the Maginot Line - a system of fortifications along France’s border with Germany. Allied forces and German forces stared at each other. Became known as Stizkrieg

Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940