Warm-up:

•Do you think America should get involved in wars around the globe? Why or why not?

War in Europe and War in Europe and JapanJapan

Europe • Italy and Germany form alliance• Francisco Franco tries a coup in Spain• Mussolini and Hitler aid Franco • Britain, France and U.S. remain neutral• Hitler sends troops into Austria• Hitler moves troops to Czechoslovakia

per Munich agreement• Britain and France adopt appeasement• Hitler takes Czech and signs pact

w/S.U.• Launches blitzkreig against Poland• Britain and France declare war on

Germany

• 1940 Hitler takes Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

• Hitler moves onto France and occupies Paris in 1940

• Hitler begins an all-out attack on Britain resorting to nightly bombings on London

Japan• Military leaders begin policy of

expansion• Wanted to relieve population pressure• Launches attack on Manchuria• League of Nations condemn Japan and

Japan withdraws from League• Launch full-scale assault on China• 1940 announces Greater East Asia Co-

Prosperity Sphere for future of Asia• Starts receiving economic pressures

from United States• Japan seizes Indochina and Roosevelt

ends all trade and freezes Japanese assets in U.S.