Post on 17-Jan-2016
““A World in Flames” A World in Flames”
Mrs. O’NeillMrs. O’Neill
World War IIWorld War II
““A War to End All Wars”A War to End All Wars”
“Everything for which America fought has been accomplished…the United States could aid in the establishment of just democracy throughout the world…”
Treaty of Versailles:•Germany’s harsh terms- disarmament, war reparations $$$, loss of land=humiliation
1929 Stock Market crash in U.S. set off world-wide depression
A Weak League of A Weak League of NationsNations
WWII Governments
• Socialism- community ownership
• Communism- adds a single-party system of government
• Fascism: military government based on racism & nationalism with strong support from the business community
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Individual rights are not viewed as important as the needs of the nation
Totalitarianism
Communist Dictatorship
(USSR)
Fascist Dictatorship
(Germany, Italy, Spain)
Military Dictatorship
(Japan)
Major Governments WWIIMajor Governments WWII
The Rise of DictatorsThe Rise of Dictators
• 1919- Benito Mussolini founds Italy’s Fascist Party– Fascism-aggressive
nationalism against Communism
Il Duce“The Leader”
Blackshirts
The Rise of DictatorsThe Rise of Dictators• 1917 Bolshevik Russian Revolution
– Vladimir Lenin
•1922 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
•1926 Joseph Stalin becomes new Soviet dictator
The Rise of DictatorsThe Rise of Dictators
• Hirohito/Emperor Showa– Ruled from 1926-1989
•Imports more then exports
•Attempted to take over Manchuria in Northern China to get resources and expand
The Rise of DictatorsThe Rise of Dictators•1936 Spanish Civil War
•Backed by Spanish fascists, army officers, landowners, and Catholic Church leaders
Francisco Franco
USSR, Germany and Italy send tanks, airplanes, and soldiers
The Rise of DictatorsThe Rise of Dictators
• National Socialist German Workers’ Party– Aka Nazi Party
•1923 Nazis marched in Munich ---> Berlin but plan failed and Hitler was arrested
•Aryan Race in need of “lebensraum”
•Expansion east into Poland and Russia
•1933 German president appointed Hitler as chancellor
•1934 Hitler becomes President
•1935 rebuilds Germany’s military in violation of Treaty of Versailles
Fuhrer
“The Leader”
Hitler provided scapegoats for Germany’s problems (foreigners, Jews, communists, Roma (Gypsies), mentally ill, homosexuals)
1923 - Wallpapering with German Deutchmarks
Kristallnacht Nov. 1938- vandalism & destruction of Jewish property & synagogues. Jewish refuguee shot and killed German diplomat in Paris because Jewish people had been deported from Germany to Poland
The Austrian Anschluss, 1938The Austrian Anschluss, 1938
Policy of appeasement (concessions in exchange for peace) b/c of:
1.) WWI
2.) To unite German-speaking lands seemed reasonable
3.) Nazis would be interested in peace once they gained more territory
The “Problem” of theSudetenland
The “Problem” of theSudetenland
Democracy
Diversity
Allied w/ France and USSR
Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939
Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939
The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939
The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939
Germany and USSR divide Poland in half
Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Sept. 3rd, Britain and France declare war
Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939
Sept. 3rd, Britain and France declare war
Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]
• Blitzkrieg- “lightening war” large numbers of massed tanks to break through and rapidly encircle enemy positions
• September 27th- Warsaw fell• October 5th- Polish army had been defeated
German Troops March into Warsaw
German Troops March into Warsaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBG34TSJJ4