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Prelude to World War II: Unraveling Peace

Explore the events leading up to World War II, from the ineffective League of Nations to the rise of fascist powers and the appeasement tactics that failed to prevent global conflict. Witness key moments like the Manchurian Crisis, Spanish Civil War, and the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in this turbulent period of history.

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Prelude to World War II: Unraveling Peace

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  1. World War II Used with Permission from Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

  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. France – False Sense of Security?

  10. 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 • Kellogg-Briand Pact – 1928 • Makes war illegal as a tool of diplomacy • No enforcement provisions

  11. The Great Depression

  12. The Manchurian Crisis, 1931

  13. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

  14. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

  15. Germany Invades the RhinelandMarch 7, 1936

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

  17. America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh

  18. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936 The “Pact of Steel”

  19. 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.

  20. The Spanish Civil War:1936 - 1939

  21. The Spanish Civil War

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

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

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

  25. “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

  26. The Japanese Invasionof China, 1937

  27. The Austrian Anschluss, 1938

  28. The “Problem” of theSudetenland

  29. 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.

  30. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

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

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