Part 1
Threats to World Order
KEY CONCEPTS
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The rise of fascism, militarism, and imperialism were significant developments that ultimately led to World War II
when Germany, Italy, and Japan embarked on policies of territorial expansion and conquest.
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The 1930s Neutrality Acts limited but did not entirely prevent FDR from providing assistance to Great Britain.
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Deteriorating relations between Japan and the United States ended in war.
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The United States adopted a discriminatory policy towards Japanese Americans.
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The Holocaust brought unprecedented suffering to millions of European Jews and others the Nazis found
objectionable.
(Ch. 34)
Aggression on the Rise
• Rise of military aggression
1. Benito Mussolini
• Ethiopia (1935) – Emperor
Haile Selassie
Aggression on the Rise
2. Hitler’s conquest
• defied treaty
• Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) > RomeBerlin Axis (1939)
• Munich Agreement - Sudetenland
– Appeasement
Aggression on the Rise
– Nonaggression Pact (1939)
• Poland
3. Japan
–
Stimson Doctrine
• Tripartite pact (Sept 1940)
Threats to World Order
• The Spanish Civil War
(1936-1939)
– Republican government
(Loyalists) – Abraham Lincoln Brigade
– Francisco Franco
– “quarantine” speech
World War Looms
F.D.R’s “Quarantine Speech”
(Cornell Column)
F.D.R’s
“Quarantine
Speech”
As you read FDR’s Quarantine
Speech, answer the following
questions in note section of notes.
1. Can’t isolate
from World?
1. Why did Roosevelt believe the
U.S. could not isolate itself from
the rest of the world?
2. “World
Lawlessness”
epidemic
3. Take-AStand
2. What was the epidemic of “world
lawlessness” that Roosevelt
referred to in this speech?
3. Do you agree with the
sentiments expressed in this
speech? Explain.