Battle of Britain

I. Air battles

II. The Blitz

III. “So much…so many…so few”

United States

I. Lend-Lease

II. “arsenal of democracy”

III. Atlantic Charter, August 1941

Eastern Front

I. Stalin’s delusions

II. Operation Barbarossa

Manchurian Crisis

I. Anti-Japanese agitation in China

A. Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang

B. Mukden Incident

II. Japanese Invasion

III. League Response

A. Lytton Commission

IV. U.S. Response

A. Stimson Doctrine

B. (Kellogg-Briand Pact)

V. Shanghai

VI. Manchukuo

A. Pu Yi

VII. Japan leaves the League

Japanese “New Pacific Order”

I. “Japan’s Monroe Doctrine”

II. “Fundamental Principles of National Strategy”

III. China

A. Rape of Nanjing

U.S. Opposition to Japanese Expansion

I. Roosevelt’s measures

II. Cancellation of 1911 commercial treaty

Japan’s Forward Policy

I. “Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”

II. German-Italian-Japanese Tripartite Pact, September 1940

III. US Embargo

A. Oil

Japan’s Decision for War

I. US Economic Embargo

II. Anglo-American support for Chinese

III. Anglo-American interference in Asia

IV. Pearl Harbor