Origins of World War II

The Road to War

Japan invades Manchuria, 1931

Fascism in Europe

Italy, Mussolini

Germany, Hitler

Outbreak of War in Europe

Germany ended reparation payments, 1933

Rhineland, 1936

Rome-Berlin Axis, 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact

Austria, 1938

Munich Conference, Czechoslovakia, Appeasement

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939

September 1939 Germany invades Poland

WWII begins

US Road to War

FDR’s diplomacy

Isolationism

Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)

Quarantine Speech

Japan invades China

Japan joins Axis, 1940

Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

1940

Election

Scrap metal and oil

Peacetime draft

Destroyer-Bases Deal

1941

Germany invades Soviet Union

Lend-Lease Program

US defends Greenland & US seized Axis ships

Atlantic Charter

Four Freedoms Speech

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7

“back door” to war