American History Since 1865 (HIST 128) Chapter 22 Fighting For The Four Freedoms

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American History Since 1865 (HIST 128)

Chapter 22 Fighting for the Four Freedoms – World War II (1941 – 1945)-give me liberty chapter 22

U.S History
Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms – World
War II, 1941 – 1945
I. Fighting World War II (WWII)
A. Prewar trends in U.S. foreign policy
1. Recognition of Soviet Union
2. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America
B. The road to war
1. Japanese invasions of Manchuria, China
2. Adolf Hitler’s Germany
a) Nazism
b) Rearmament
c) Annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia
d) Persecution of Jews
e) Policy of appeasement toward
(1) Adoption by Britain, France, United States
(2) Munich conference; “peace in our time”
3. Benito Mussolini’s Italy
a) Fascism
b) Invasion of Ethiopia
4. Francisco Franco’s Spain
a) Spanish Civil War
b) Overthrow of democracy; establishment of fascist
regime

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