THE CHINESE TERRITORYINVADED BY

JAPAN

MANCHURIA

RESTRICTING TRADEWITH A NATION

FOR PUNITIVE OR POLITICAL REASONS

ETHIOPIAN EMPERORETHIOPIAN EMPEROR

HAILE

SELASSIE

FASCIST LEADEROF ITALY

CHINESE LEADEROF THE

NATIONALIST PARTY

1936-1939

REFORMERSVS.

NATIONALISTS

DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WW II

GENERAL AND LEADEROF THE SPANISH NATIONALISTS

HE CONTROLLED SPAINFOR DECADES

FRANCISCO FRANCO

CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY

FASCIST MILITARISM

THIRD REICH

REFUSES TREATY OF VERSAILLES

THE BUFFER ZONEBETWEEN GERMANY

AND FRANCE

MILITARIZED BY HITLER

PART OF CZECHOSLOVAKIAINHABITED BY 3 MILLION PEOPLE

BRITISH PRIME

MINISTER WHO

APPEASED HITLER

BRITISH PRIME

MINISTER WHO

APPEASED HITLER

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

LEADER OF THE U.S.S.R.

ENEMY OF THE NAZIS, BUT

AGAINST GOING TO WAR

PRIME MINISTEROF

GREAT BRITAIN

HIS LEADERSHIP PREVENTED GERMANY

FROM DEFEATING GREAT BRITAIN

AND EUROPE

WINSTONWINSTON CHURCHILLCHURCHILL

FRENCH GENERAL

LED THE FREE FRENCHRESISTANCE

“DESERT FOX”

LED GERMANS TO EARLY VICTORY

IN NORTH AFRICA

ERWINERWIN

ROMMELROMMEL

“DESERT

FOX”

ROME

BERLIN

TOKYO

ITALYITALY

GERMANYGERMANY

JAPANJAPAN

GIVING IN TO A POTENTIAL ENEMY

TO AVOID WAR

DEFENSES BUILT BY THEFRENCH ALONG THE

GERMAN BORDER

DEFENSES BUILT BY THEFRENCH ALONG THE

GERMAN BORDER

AND 50 MILESALONG THE BELGIUM

BORDER

AND 50 MILESALONG THE BELGIUM

BORDER

MAGINOTMAGINOT

LINELINE

“LIGHTNING WAR”

A STRIP OF LAND LEADING

TO THE BALTIC SEATO GIVE POLAND

ACCESSTO TRADE

POLISHPOLISH

CORRIDORCORRIDOR

THIS WAS SIGNEDBETWEEN HITLER

AND STALIN

GERMANY AND RUSSIAWOULD NOT ATTACK

EACH OTHER

NON-AGGRESSIONPACT

NON-AGGRESSIONPACT

PUPPET COLLABORATIVEGOVERNMENT IN

SOUTHERN FRANCE

CAPITAL WAS VICHY

VICHYGOVERNMENT

VICHYGOVERNMENT

A 57 DAY BLITZ ON LONDON

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

U.S. POLICY TO SUPPLY WAR

MATERIALSTO GREAT BRITAIN

MASS EVACUATION

OF ALLIED TROOPS

300,000 MEN IN 9 DAYS

DUNKIRK

DUNKIRK

THE POLICY TO BURN EVERYTHINGTHAT MIGHT AIDTHE GERMANS

WHEN THE RUSSIANSRETREATED

SCORTCHEDEARTHPOLICY

GERMAN SEIGED BEGINS

LASTING 890 DAYS

KILLING OVER 800,000 CIVILIANS

LENINGRAD

HORRIFIC URBAN

WARFARE

CITY DESTROYED

STALINGRAD