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How could the end of World War I have been a cause for World War II?
Discuss this with a partner who sits near you and have a written answer
ready.
Agenda• Tests and Mid-Year Review Packets• New Homework Calendar• Treaty of Versailles• Impact on Europe• New European Leaders
CommentsTests• Paragraphs! 4-5 sentences• Corrections and Make-Ups due by Friday
Mid-Year Review Packets• Blanks?• Guessing
• Homework Calendar
How could WWI have caused WWII?
Treaty of Versailles1.
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Impact on Europe:
Leaders in WWII
Use pages 804-809 in the textbook to complete the chart on World War II leaders.
Leaders in WWII
Use pages 804-809 in the textbook to complete the chart on World War II leaders.
MapsUse the maps in chapter 26 of your textbook to complete the maps of Europe and the Pacific.
Benito Mussolini• Preached a Fascist
government• Linked to cultural
superiority and racism• Nicknamed ‘Il Duce’
Italy & Mussolini• Italy was hit with
Great Depression• High unemployment
and inflation• Mussolini knew how
to appeal to wounded national pride
• Played on the fears of economic collapse and Communism
Mussolini• To strengthen nation,
power must rest with single strong leader and small group of devoted party members
• 1922 – Black shirts marched on Romeo King refused to declare
Martial Law and cabinet resigned
• Had the support of industrialists, landowners, and Roman Catholic Church
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Yes, that’s
Joseph Stalin’s Real Name…_
• Communist Leader• Controlled EVERY
aspect of people’s lives
• Eliminated all competition to him in order to stay in power
Stalin• Responsible for the
deaths of 8-13 Million peopleo Collectivization: Turn individual
farms into larger collective farms
• Stalin wanted to transform Soviet Union from backwards rural nation into a great industrial power
Hideki Tojo (Japan) • Japanese Leader• Prime Minister at the
time of attack on Pearl Harbor
• Militaristic and Fascist• GOAL: Expand Japanese
empire to get natural resources
Leaders of Europe• Leaders didn’t stop Hitler.
Why?o Fearful of another BLOODY waro Thought request to unite German
lands reasonableo Thought Nazis would be more
interested in peace once they got land
Hitler’s Demands• GOAL: Unify German
Speaking Peopleo Austriao Czechoslovakia
• Took moved troops into Rhineland in 1936
Video
Agenda
• Video: Cause and Effect• Discussion on Video• U.S. and WWII
Video Questions
• Why did the German people let Hitler take power?
• How did appeasement affect Germany?
• Did appeasement work?
U.S. and the War: Neutrality
Lend Lease Act
Why did the U.S. join the war?
Be ready to listen to a video clip of Roosevelt speaking about the War.
What were Roosevelt’s beliefs?Why did Roosevelt make this speech?
Agenda• Roosevelt’s beliefs• Japan: The Pacific Front• Pearl Harbor• Effect of Pearl Harbor
Questions:
• Why did the United States abandon neutrality?
• Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
• How did Pearl Harbor change the way that
Americans felt about the war? About the Japanese?
Japan• Military leaders gain control in early 1900s• More influential than emperor by 1930• Want an empire
How might this shift affect how the country is run? Brainstorm an idea in your notes.
Japanese Aggression• 1931 take over Manchuria, China
• 1937-8 Kill over 360,000 Chinese as it continues to expand in China
• U.S. protests but does nothing: Why?
• July 1941: Japan invades French Indochina
• Roosevelt demands that Japan withdraw• U.S. freezes Japanese money that is in American
banks and cuts off exports to Japan
What is different this time?
Strategy in attacking Pearl Harbor
Destroy U.S. naval base in Pacific
Give Japan time to control East Asia before
the U.S. intervened
Pearl Harbor2:30
• 7:55am• December 7, 1941• Air attack
• Over 2,400 Americans killed• 200 planes destroyed
• Declare war the next day
Impact