American History 2
Ms. Barker
CHAPTER 24 STUDY GUIDE
A FRAGILE PEACE 1920-1941
INTERWAR PREVENTION OF WAR (ATTEMPTS)
International efforts to ensure a long-term peace:
Versailles Treaty/League of Nations:
The Power Treaties:
549Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928):
Good Neighbor Policy:
* Explain the chief weakness of all of the measures
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II
1. Fascism: (define the principal below)
fanaticismIndoctrinationtotalitarianismviolence, lies and inequalitygovernment by the elite (hierarchical structure) –
nationalism/imperialism* conditions under which nations turned to Fascism
economicpsychologicalleadershipfear/hatred of communism-
Identify the 3 major fascist nations, their leaders and their goal for each nation
1.
2.
3. Spain-
2. Appeasement:
AustriaCzechoslovakia3. War:
PolandNazi-Soviet Pact:
blitzkrieg:
allies response?
Fall of France – 6/40
Battle of Britain – 6/40 to 5/41
Japan’s Manifest Destiny – China
reasons for expansionreasons for U.S. involvement
Manchuriawhen?
puppet stateChina “Incident”when?
rape of NankingUSS PanayU.S. actions-
Tripartite Pactwhen?
U.S. actions-
Invasion of French Indochina (Vietnam)when?
U.S. actions“Operation Magic”
when?
Message?
CHANGES IN AMERICAN POLICY FROM NEUTRALITY TO INVOLVEMENT
U.S. Position on Conflicts Overseas:
isolationism*
list reasons-
Legislation: Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936:
*
list provisions
Latter Neutrality Acts- of 1937 and 1939:
Cash and Carry
Build-up of the military
Selective services and training actLend Lease Act-
Atlantic Charter-
USS Greer
“Shoot on Sight” decreeUSS Kearney
Pearl Harbor:
Date:
DamageErrors made by the U.S.-
U.S. reaction-
TERMS AND PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Frank B. Kellog
Gerald B. Nye
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
Charles DeGaulle
Winston Churchill
Kristallnacht
Axis Powers
Fire Hose analogy
Hitler Youth
American First Party
RADAR
Tripartite Pact
Battle of Britain
Embargo/Sanction
lebensraum
Maginot/Siegfried Lines
Mein Kampf
Anschluss
Hirohito
EVENTS LEADING TO WWII
ACTION
RESPONSE
JAPAN INVASION OF MANCHURIA, 1931
MORAL CONDEMNATION BY LEAGUE AND US
ITALIAN INVASION OF ETHIOPIA, 1935
LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONDEMNATION
SPANISH CIVIL WAR, 1936-1939
VOLUNTEERS FOUGHT AGAINST FASCISM
HITLER MILITARIZES THE RHINELAND, 1936
NO RESPONSE
JAPANESE INVASION OF CHINA, 1936
AMERICAN EMBARGO OF IRON AND STEEL ON
JAPAN
GERMAN ANNEXATION OF AUSTRIA AND
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1938
MUNICH CONFERENCE / MUNICH PACT, 1938
GERMAN INVASION OF POLAND, 1939
START OF WORLD WAR II, 1939
GERMANY VICTORY OVER WESTERN EUROPE, 1940
PASSAGE OF SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT IN THE US
AND START OF MILITARY BUILD-UP, 1940
BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND GERMAN SUBMARINE
WARFARE IN THE ATLANTIC, 1904-41
LEND-LEASE ACT AND ATLANTIC CHARTER, 1941
GERMAN INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION, 1941
AMERICAN AND BRITISH AID OFFERED
TO SOVIETS, 1941
JAPANESE INVASION OF FRENCH INDOCHINA, 1941
AMERICAN SEIZURE OF JAPANESE MONEY
AND PROPERTY AND EMBARGO OF
OIL EXPORTS, 1941
JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, 12/7/41
US ENTERS WORLD WAR II, 12/8/1941