Week of March 20, Monday Lecture

I. The Lessons of The Thirties

• Depression Was Real
• Could Not Be Endured or Solved Without Active Intervention by the
  Federal Govt.
• C. The Overwhelming Majority of Americans Understood this

II. The Unfinished Conflict

The Treaty of Versailles (from BYU)

III. America in the Inter-war Period

• "Good Neighbors in Latin America"
  "Imperialism Is Easy" - John Dewey on the U.S. & Mexico
• Danger to The East
• Retreat From Europe
• Kellog-Briand Pact
  The Text of the Pact (from Yale)

IV. The Rise of Fascism

• Japan
  IMAGE: 1931 Invasion of China
• Italy
  IMAGE: Benito Mussolini
• Germany
  IMAGE: Adolf Hitler
  IMAGE: Hitler and the Military Industry

V. American Isolationism

• Nye Investigation
• Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937
• Appeasement
  IMAGE: Sudeten Woman

VI. War in Europe

VII. The Slow Road to American Involvement

• Destroyer Deal
• Lend-lease
  IMAGE: Lend-Lease at Work
• Draft

VIII. Pearl Harbor

IMAGE: Pearl Harbor
IMAGE: The Burning Fleet
IMAGE: FDR Delivers His "Day of Infamy Speech"

IX. Fighting the War

• The War on Germany
  IMAGE: Eisenhower Preparing the Troops for D-Day
  IMAGE: The Normandy Invasion
• The War in the Pacific
  IMAGE: Jungle Fighting
  IMAGE: The Bombing of Hiroshima
  IMAGE: The Aftermath
• The Costs

return to World War II and the Cold War

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