1. World War II Mr. Jason Cargile Mission Hills High School, San Marcos CA

2. The Road to War: 1919-1939

3. The Versailles Treaty

4. A Weak League of Nations

5. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations • No control of major conflicts. • No progress in disarmament. • No effective military force.

6. The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied.

7. Decadence of the Weimar Republic

8. France – False Sense of Security? The MaginotLine

9. International Agreements • Locarno Pact – 1925 • France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy • Guarantee existing frontiers • Establish DMZ 30 miles deep on East bank of Rhine River • Refrain from aggression against each other • Kellog-Briand Pact – 1928 • Makes war illegal as a tool of diplomacy • No enforcement provisions

10. The Great Depression

11. The Manchurian Crisis, 1931

12. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

13. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

14. Germany Invades the RhinelandMarch 7, 1936

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

16. America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh

17. The Austrian Anschluss, 1936

18. The Spanish Civil War:1936 - 1939 The National Front[Nationalists] The Popular Front[Republicans] • Anarcho-Syndicalists. • Basques. • Catalans. • Communists. • Marxists. • Republicans. • Socialists. • Carlists [ultra-Catholic monarchists]. • Catholic Church. • Falange [fascist] Party. • Monarchists.

19. The Spanish Civil War:1936 - 1939

20. The Spanish Civil War

21. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 The American “Lincoln Brigade”

22. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 Francisco Franco

23. The Spanish Civil War:A Dress Rehearsal for WW II? Italian troops in Madrid

24. “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

25. The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937

26. The “Problem” of theSudetenland

27. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

28. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

29. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1939 The “Pact of Steel”

30. The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

31. The War Begins!

32. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

33. German Troops March into Warsaw

34. The European & North African Theaters

35. European Theater of Operations

36. The “Phoney War” Ends:Spring, 1940

37. Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

38. France SurrendersJune, 1940

39. A Divided France Henri Petain

40. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle The Maquis

41. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis:The Tripartite PactSeptember, 1940

42. Now Britain Is All Alone!

43. U. S. Lend-Lease Act,1941 Great Britain.........................$31 billionSoviet Union...........................$11 billionFrance......................................$ 3 billionChina.......................................$1.5 billionOther European.................$500 millionSouth America...................$400 millionThe amount totaled: $48,601,365,000

44. Lend-Lease

45. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

46. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

47. The London “Tube”:Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

48. The Royal Air Force

49. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill