HOW DID THE GREAT DEPRESSION HELP CAUSE WWII?

Isolationist Give the Philippines their freedom

FDR = “Big Stick Policy” is WRONG (too much money)○ Removed Troops from Cuba, Panama, Haiti

America reversed its Imperialist ideas to conserve its time and money for domestic problems in the 1930s

Totalitarian Governments Totalitarian Government = the individual and

his/her rights are nothing; the only thing that matters is the state.

Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini

Due to economic disaster, the people looked for a “different” kind of government to fix their problems

European Alliances Germany and Italy make an alliance (1936)

Japan joins them in 1940 (military dictatorship)

The Triparte Pact (Axis Powers) start to expand their countries influence (Imperialism)

The United States will respond with Neutrality Acts in 1935, 36, 37.America refused to be dragged into war like World

War I, not matter what other countries are doing.

Spanish Civil War (1936-39) General Francisco Franco will lead a fascist revolution

supported by Hitler and Mussolini against the democratic government of Spain Again, Spain was almost collapsed from the worldwide

Depression, people wanted a new government.

Hitler used Spain as his “trial run” for his military goals in Europe.

The United States responded with nothing – Isolationist

American actually started to weaken their military (cost too much money)

Japanese Invasion of China Japan invaded China in 1937 (natural resources)

US actually sold war materials to both Japan and China “Rape of Nanking”

Japan attacked the American gunboat the Punay Two killed and 30 wounded

Japan apologized and paid a fine. Then tortured Americans in China to kick out “western influence”

America stayed isolationist

Hitler’s Anti-Jewish Rhetoric Germany started rounding up its own Jewish citizens into “ghettoes”

The world new of Hitler’s plan for a master race from his work in Mein Kampf

Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia - nobody stopped him

Germany and Russia signed a Non-Aggression Pact (1939)

Hitler invaded Poland (1939), Britain and France responded declaring war on Germany Germany rounded up all the Jews throughout Poland into Ghettoes

United States passed the Neutrality Act of 1939 The United States would now sell war materials to both sides on a “cash and carry”

basis To prevent another “Lusitania” castastrophe

Fall of France (1940) Hitler’s blitzkreig campaign swept

through France in 2 months

Now that England was the only European country standing between Germany and the United States

FDR now called to build the military and created the draft in 1940.

Jewish Refugees? Many Jewish refugees tried to escape

Europe from the terror they were experiencing

The United States refused to admit the Jewish refugees (Anti-Semitic)

Election of 1940 FDR will run for a historic “third term” claiming the country

needed a stable Presidency to deal with the Great Depression and the coming crisis in Europe

FDR wins easily

Germany starts to bomb England – Battle of Britain

Created the Lend-Lease Bill – 50 billion dollars worth of aid to the Allies

The United States is now officially NO LONGER ISOLATIONIST

Problems with Japan Japan was becoming an Imperialist nation in

Asia, and taking over all the countries previously conquered by America

In protest, the United States cut off all supplies of Oil to Japan – strangling their economy

Japan planned an attack against the United StatesCode breakers knew Japan would attack, they just did

not think it would happen in Hawaii as an all out attack

Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941 – “a date that will live in

infamy”

Japanese Kamikaze attacks

3,000 Americans and several ships destroyed

December 8th, 1941 - America declared war on Japan In which Germany and Italy then declared war on the

United States.

America at War The United States will first gear up for war

against the Japanese.“Island hopping”

The United States then entered Africa in 1942 - General Eisenhower

D-Day – June 6, 1944 – The United States invaded Europe in Normandy, France