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| CHAPTER 29 | FROM ISOLATION TO GLOBAL WAR | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1921–1922 |
Washington Armaments Conference |
| 1925 |
Mussolini took power in Italy |
| 1928 |
Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| 1931 |
Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
| 1933 |
Hitler took power in Germany |
| 1933 |
London Economic Conference |
| 1934–1937 |
Nye Committee |
| 1935 |
Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1937 |
Japan’s invasion of China |
| 1937 |
Quarantine Speech |
| September 1, 1939 |
World War II began |
| 1940 |
First peacetime draft |
| June 1940 |
Fall of France |
| 1941 |
Lend-Lease program began |
| June 1941 |
Germany’s invasion of Soviet Union |
| July 1941 |
Japanese extended protectorate over Indochina |
| December 7, 1941 |
Attack on Pearl Harbor |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Explain and account for the foreign policy pursued by the United States in
the interwar period.
- Describe the aggressions of Japan, Italy, and Germany during the 1930s.
- Account for American efforts at neutrality in the face of aggression and
assess the effectiveness of neutrality in preventing war.
- Describe the election of 1940.
- Understand American support of Britain and the Soviet Union prior to the
United States’s entry into the war.
- Explain and account for the effectiveness of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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