Between+the+Wars

FROM NORTON TEXT CHAPTER 26: THE UNITED STATES IN A TROUBLED WORLD, 1920-1941

//The Course to War in Europe//, 751 German Aggression under Hitler Isolationist Views in the United States Nye Committee Hearings Roosevelt's Evolving Views Poland and the Outbreak of World War II

//Japan, China, and a New Order in Asia//, 754 Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) Manchurian Crisis Map: Japanese Expansion Before Pearl Harbor Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech

//U.S. Entry into World War II//, 757 Map: The German Advance Links to the World: Radio News First Peacetime Military Draft Atlantic Charter U.S. Demands on Japan Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor Explaining Pearl Harbor Avoidable War? Legacy: Presidential Deception of the Public

For reference:

Kennedy Reading Guide: Between the Wars http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Kennedy+Reading+Guide

Our use of BBC website for this module []
 * FROM COURSE NOTES**

Timeline of events preceding World War II (Wikipedia) []

Events preceding World War II in Europe (Wikipedia) []

Leaders:

Benito Mussolini (Wikipedia) []

Winston Churchill (Wikipedia) [] Joseph Stalin (Wikipedia) []

Charles de Gaulle (Wikipedia) []

Japan became a major threat to U.S. goals in Asia: Events preceding World War II in Asia (Wikipedia) []
 * 1931**

(1) **Japan's "New Order" in Asia**. Wanted a sphere of influence in Asia Similar to United States in Latin America U.S. unwilling to permit such Japanese influence. United States had major interests at stake in Asia: Philippines and various Pacific islands Religious missions Trade and investments Open Door in China.

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Wikipedia) []

(2) Japanese seized Manchuria Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Wikipedia) [] Manchuria Invasion 1931 Mukden Incident (Wikipedia) []

American response: Stimson Doctrine of nonrecognition [] Mere moral lecture U.S. had neither the means nor will to use military force.

U.S. recognized Soviet Union. To increase trade. To halt Japanese expansion.
 * 1933**

Adolf Hitler: Chancellor of Germany (1/30) []

Franklin Roosevelt: President of the United States (3/4)

U.S. Neutrality Acts. Neutrality Acts an expression of isolationist sentiment. [] Congress sought to protect the nation by outlawing the kinds of contacts that had compromised U.S. neutrality during World War I.
 * 1935**

Germany reoccupied the Rhineland (3/7) Remilitarization of the Rhineland (Wikipedia) []
 * 1936**

Olympic Games held in Berlin (August) 1936 Summer Olympics [] Jesse Owens (Wikipedia) []


 * Civil war in Spain**. (1936-1939).

Spanish Civil War (Wikipedia) []

Foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War (Wikipedia) []

Democratic (left-wing) Spanish government supported by Soviet Union and international mercenaries.

Abraham Lincoln brigade from America. [] 1st Lincoln Battalion flag.svg (Wikipedia)

General Franco (right-wing) supported by Germany and Italy (fascists). []

Britain, France, and U.S. looked the other way. U. S. arms embargo. Franco eventually won.

Bombing of Guernica (Wikipedia) [] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting])

Spanish Civil War websites 1. DBQ Spanish Civil War (National Archives)

Don Henry story [] See the Sacrifice for Spain poster at a college campus (Univ. of Kansas) []

2. Spanish Civil War (LOC) Today in History July 17 [] Work through this as a guide to research sources

3. Spanish Civil War Letters from American Volunteers [] One is a letter from a nurse; another from a woman volunteer.

4. Spanish Civil War Posters (LOC) [] Go to OTHER WAYS TO SEARCH Go to Preview; click on All the Images [|http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/ils:@FILREQ(@FIELD(CALL(+POS))@FIELD(COLLID+spcw))::SortBy=CALL] Can click on any of 124 posters

Beginning of World War II in Asia. Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Wikipedia) [] Nanking Massacre (Wikipedia) [] Panay incident (Wikipedia) [] Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth (Wikipedia) []
 * 1937**

Hideki Tojo (Wikipedia) [] Hirohito (Wikipedia) []

Japanese invasion of mainland China (7/7) China then was a U.S. ally. Chang Kai–Shek, and Chinese communists under Mao Zedung, will both fight against the Japanese invaders. Chiang Kai-shek (Wikipedia) []

German invasion and annexation of Austria (3/12) []
 * 1938**

Munich agreement (Chamberlain/Hitler) (9/15). Czech Sudetenland to Germany. Appeasement [] Munich Agreement (Wikipedia) [] Neville Chamberlain (Wikipedia) [] Sudetenland (Wikipedia) []

Germany occupied remainder of Czechoslovakia (March) German occupation of Czechoslovakia (Wikipedia) []
 * 1939**

German-Russian Non-Aggression Pact (8/23). The odd couple: fascists and communists. Agreed not to attack each other. Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (Wikipedia) []

German invasion of Poland (1 September 1939) Invasion of Poland (1939) (Wikipedia) [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland_(1939])

1. Beginning of WWII in Europe:

2. BBC Special Report: The Day the War Began a. Read this section entitled "Hitler's War" [] b. Read this section entitled "Newspaper Headlines" []

3. U.S. declared neutrality (5 September 1939). [] U.S. still trying to stay out of war

1. German blitzkrieg (lightning warfare) [today we call it "shock and awe"] []
 * 1940**

Germans invade Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, and France [] []

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a. **Remember: Hitler's conquests and attacks in Europe made French, Dutch, and British colonies in Asia vulnerable to Japanese attack.**

b. BBC News Theme Report: Blitzkrieg []

2. Animated Map of Dunkirk and the Fall of France Read the description for each of the six maps: Fall of France; Germany Attacks; Allies Retreat; Allied Forces Trapped; Evacuation from Dunkirk; Paris Captured []

3. Dunkirk: [] Dunkirk evacuation (Wikipedia) [] Little ships of Dunkirk (Wikipedia) []

British and French evacuated from beach (6/4) a. BBC On This Day: 4 June 1940 Dunkirk Rescue Over: Churchill Defiant [] b. Letter from a Dunkirk hero []

4. France conquered (6/5-6/25)

BBC On This Day: 14 June 1940 German Troops Enter Paris []

5. Battle of the Atlantic game. Guide a convoy across the ocean. []

[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic_(1939%E2%80%931945])

6. Blitz Britain attacked by air (June-December 1940). "Blitz." Prelude to expected German invasion.

Battle of Britain (Wikipedia) [] The Blitz (Wikipedia) [] [] Edward R. Murrow (Wikipedia) []

a. BBC On This Day: 10 July 1940 Luftwaffe Launches Battle of Britain [] Note: Audio of a dogfight over the British Channel

b. BBC On This Day: 7 September 1940 London Blitzed by German Bombers []