Interwar Period
US History & Government
Washington Naval Conference (1921)
Mussolini Marches on Rome (1922)
• Fascist
• Totalitarian Dictator
Stalin takes over the USSR (1922)
• Communist
• Totalitarian Dictator
Hirohito takes over Japan (1926)
Hirohito
• Monarchy (Emperor Divine)
• Militarism
Dawes Plan (1924)
$
US loans
money to
Germany
Germany pays
back WWI
reparations
$
$
$
Britain
pays back
WWI loans
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
63 nations outlaws war!
Japan Invades Manchuria (1930)
Hitler takes over German (1933)
• Nazi
• Totalitarian
Good Neighbor Policy (1933)
US Neutrality Act (1935)
• Embargo on trading
in arms and war
materials with all
parties in a war.
Spanish Civil War (1936-9)
Nationalists
vs.
Republicans
(backed by fascists) (backed by Communists)
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Germany & Italy form the Axis (1936)
Nanjing Massacre (1937)
Between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed by Japanese soldiers
FDR’s Quarantine Speech (1937)
When an epidemic of physical
disease starts to spread, the
community approves and joins in a
quarantine of the patients in order to
protect the health of the community
against the spread of the disease….
War is a contagion, whether it be
declared or undeclared. It can
engulf states and peoples remote
from the original scene of hostilities.
We are determined to keep out of
war….. We are adopting such
measures as will minimize our risk
of involvement,
German Anschluss with Austria (1938)
Munich Pact (1939)
Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)
Germany invades Poland (1939)
Cash and Carry (1939)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)