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Chapter 25.1: The Coming of WWII
Section 1 Overview
Part 1: Evaluating the vital concepts leading to the War
1. Describe Fascism:
2. Hitler considered blonde, blue eyed Germans to be part of what race?
3. Define Lebensraum:
4. Explain and describe America’s foreign policy before Pearl Harbor?
5. Describe the Nuremberg Laws:
6. Explain the Munich pact agreement.
7. List the countries of the Tripartite Alliance (Axis powers).
8. Describe the provisions of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s:
9. Explain the Lend-Lease Act:
10. What was the Atlantic Charter?
American Cultures 6.0, Mr. Gutsche
Name: _____________________________ Per: _____
American Cultures 6.0, Mr. Gutsche
Chapter 25.1: The Coming of WWII
Section 1 Overview
Part 2: Examine the United States’ responses to major world events leading into World War II
World Event
Date
1931
Japan invades Manchuria
1932
Japan conquers Manchuria
A puppet government is set - up
1932
Japan attacks Shanghai,
China
The League of Nations
requests that Japan
withdraw from Manchuria
1933
Japan withdraws from the League.
1935
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Emperor Haile Salassie appeals to
the League of Nations for help.
Ethiopia falls to Italy
1935-36
Germany Rearms
Violates the Treaty of Versailles
Sends troops into the Rhineland
(buffer zone)
Civil War in Spain Breaks
Out
193639
Hitler and Mussolini aid the Fascist
Franco in overthrowing the
Republican government of Spain. The
Soviet Union tries to aid the loyalist
government, but aid is insufficient.
Dress rehearsal for WWII.
Japan begins full invasion of
China
Japan gains control of coastal
territories, moves up the rivers,
spreading inland. World War II
begins in Asia.
1937
American Response
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Chapter 25.1: The Coming of WWII
Section 1 Overview
Japan attacks the American
gunboat Panay
1937
American gunboat is attacked on
Yangtze River in broad daylight.
Two Americans are killed and
others wounded.
Germany annexes Austria
1938
Hitler seizes Austria claiming its
people want to be part of Nazi
Germany.
Hitler demands the
Sudetenland
1938
Munich Pact - Hitler received
Sudetenland with the promise
that this would be his last
territorial claim. APPEASEMENT
Hitler annexes all of
Czechoslovakia
1939
Appeasement looks really foolish
now.
Hitler demands the free city
of Danzig and the Polish
Corridor
1939
This is territory that had been part
of the German Empire during
World War I and given to Poland
as part of the Treaty of Versailles.
Germany and the Soviet
Union announce a nonaggression pact
1939
Marriage of convenience surprise!
Germany invades Poland
1939
Poland falls in 3 weeks - the Soviet
Union receives a portion. Great
Britain and France declared war
on Germany. The Soviet Union
invades Finland.
Germany conquers
northern Europe
Blitzkrieg - by April Denmark,
Norway, Holland, and Belgium fall.
France falls in June.
1940
American Cultures 6.0, Mr. Gutsche
Name: _____________________________ Per: _____
American Cultures 6.0, Mr. Gutsche
Chapter 25.1: The Coming of WWII
Section 1 Overview
Battle of Britain
In desperate need of equipment and
under constant attack from the
German airforce. Britain is severely
weakened but holds on. German
submarine warfare threatens the
British with starvation.
1940
Japan began to attack
European possessions in SE
Asia
1940
Japan signed a treaty of
alliance with Germany and
Italy
1940
Japan invaded southern
Indo-China
1941
Germany invades the Soviet
Union
1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1941
Part 3: Evaluate and explain the changes seen in U.S. foreign policy throughout the 1930s up to their full
involvement in WWII in 1941. Please use the space below to craft a paragraph explaining the changes in U.S.
foreign policy. Be sure to mention specific examples.