HIST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Atlantic Charter, Germans, Appeasement
16 Aug 2016
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World war ii: america at home and abroad. Hitler takes germany out of the league of nations. He wanted to occupy the rhine and even though germany was supposed to stay away after wwi. Appeasement let hitler keep rhineland but only rhineland to keep him kinda happy, appeasement doesn"t end up working. Invasion of poland, september 1939 leads to war between germany and. Poland had ethnic germans, wanted to keep happy. Italy enters the war june 1940 and france falls to axis forces. Congress: 1937 neutrality act before poland thing even happened that claim. Neutrality act repealed in november 1939 to allow cash and carry. Lend-lease act approved 1941, britain could obtain weapons from us and reimburse later. Atlantic charter signed august 1941 between britain and us (churchill and. Pledged the 2 nations in agreement to protect freedom of the seas and free trade as well as national self determination. Was in a long standing war with china.
