Chapter 16 – THE COMING OF WAR 1931-1942



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Chapter 14 – THE COMING OF WAR 1931-1942

Chapter 14.1 – DICTATORS AND WARS

As you read, summarize the actions in the 1930s of each of the countries listed in the table below.

|SOVIET UNION |ITALY |GERMANY |JAPAN |

|• Soviet Union’s |• Mussolini outlaws |• Hitler silences democratic |• Japan invades Manchuria |

|transformation into |political parties, takes |institutions of Weimar |in 1931. |

|industrial power results in |over the press, creates a |Republic. | |

|deaths of at least 10 |secret police. | | |

|million people. | | |• “Rape of Nanjing” in |

| | |• Hitler establishes secret |1937. |

| |• Italy invades Ethiopia in |police, state-controlled | |

|• Stalin purges Communist |1935. |press, state-controlled | |

|Party of real or suspected | |education system. | |

|traitors. | | | |

| |• Mussolini sends military | | |

| |and economic aid to |• Germany reclaims Saar | |

| |Franco in Spain. |region from France. | |

| | | | |

| | | | |

| | |• Germany invades | |

| | |Rhineland. | |

Chapter 14.2 – FROM ISOLATION TO INVOLVEMENT

Sequence the major events described n the section in the timeline below.

Sept. 1939

Aug. 1941

Chapter 14.3 – AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR

As you read, record the causes and effects of the attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as details about the attack itself.

| |ATTACK ON | |

|CAUSES |PEARL HARBOR |EFFECTS |

|• Japan resents threats to its |• Surprise attack by 360 Japanese |• U.S. fleet not operational for 6 |

|authority. |planes. |months. |

| | | |

|• Japan relies on trade with U.S. for | |• Americans committed to fight. |

|natural resources. |• Nearly 2,500 Americans were killed. | |

| | |• U.S. declares war on Japan. |

|• U.S. stops trade in military supplies. | | |

| |• U.S. fleet damaged buy not |• Germany and Italy declare war on |

|• Japan keeps expanding. |destroyed. |U.S. |

| | | |

|• Negotiations fail. | | |

Sequence the fighting that followed Pearl Harbor in a table below.

|EARLY WAR IN THE PACIFIC |

|MAY 1942 |The Philippines fall to the Japanese. |

|MAY 1942 |Bataan Death March |

|MAY 1942 |Battle of Coral Sea |

|SUMMER 1942 |Southeast Asia and western Pacific under Japanese control. |

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Congress passes the Neutrality Act of 1939.

Germany invades Poland.

April 1940 – Denmark and Norway fall to Germany

May 1940 – Germany takes the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

July 1940 – Germany attacks Britain.

September 1940 – Tripartite Pact

March 1941 – Congress signs Lend-Lease Act

Atlantic Charter issued.

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