USH2 Unit 5: America and the World

Lesson 5.3 part 1 = America and the World

Focus What do you already

know about the causes of WW2?

EQ: What events led to WW2 in Europe?

Frayer Model: Internationalism

AMERICA AND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS

FOLLOWING WWI, AGRESSIONIST GOVERNMENTS TOOK POWER IN EUROPE AND ASIA. MEANWHILE, MOST AMERICANS DID NOT WANY TO GET INVOLVED IN ANOTHER FOREIGN WAR.

THE RISE OF DICTATORS MANY COUNTRIES

STRUGGLED ECONOMICALLY AFTER WWI.

THIS MADE ROOM FOR DICTATORS IN EUROPE, RUSSIA, AND JAPAN.

AP Why did Europe, Japan, and Russia turn to

dictators?

MUSSOLINI AND FASCISM IN EUROPE MUSSOLINI FOUNDED ITALY’S FASCIST

GOVERNMENT FOCUSED ON PROBLEMS CREATED BY

GREAT DEPRESSION AND ANGER OVER TREATY OF VERSAILLES

PUMPED ITALIANS W/ NATIONALISTIC IDEAS GOING BACK TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE

FASCISM = AGGRESSIVE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT = STRONGLY ANTICOMMUNIST

THE KING OF ITALY EVENTURAL GIVES MUSSOLINI POWER AS “PREMIER” (seen as strong enough to prevent communist takover)= GAVE HIMSELF TITLE OF IL DUCE (THE LEADER)

USED “BLACK SHIRTS” TO KEEP PEOPLE IN LINE

MUSSOLINI’S SUCCESS IN ITALY WOULD GIVE HITLER A “BLUEPRINT” FOR GERMANY

AP: TPS Why did Italians turn to Mussolini? How did Mussolini influence Hitler?

HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY HITLER ROSE TO POWER IN GERMANY

AS THE LEADER OF THE NAZI PARTY WAR HERO, MOTIVATED AND

ORGANIZED, GOOD SPEAKER STOKED GERMAN NATIONALISM AND

PROMISED TO SOLVE GERMANY’S PROBLEMS

HE CLAIMED JEWS WERE TO BLAME FOR GERMANY’S DEFEAT IN WAR

WROTE MEIN KAMPF IN PRISON “My Struggle”

HITLER WOULD EXPLOIT PEOPLES FEARS OF COMMUNISM, AND WOULD USE FEAR TO KEEP PEOPLE IN LINE

BY 1932, THE NAZI PARTY DOMINATED THE REICHSTAG

IN 1934 HITLER NAMED CHANCELLOR, GIVING HIM POWER OVER ARMY. GAVE HIMSELF NEW TITLE =

DER FUHRER = THE LEADER

AP: TPS How did Hitler assume complete power in

Germany?

STALIN TAKES OVER THE USSR VLADIMIR LENIN LED THE

COMMUNIST PARTY IN RUSSIA. COMMUNISM = 1 PARTY SYSTEM

THAT SUPPRESSED INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND PUNISHED OPPONENTS

WHEN JOSEPH STALIN CAME TO POWER, HE BEGAN A PROGRAM TO RAPIDLY INDUSTRIALIZE THE USSR

STALINS “5 YEAR PLANS” MAY HAVE SAVED THE USSR FROM DESTRUCTION DURING WWII, BUT………..

* TURNED FARMS INTO COLLECTIVES, AND KILLED 8-10 MILLION OF HIS OWN PEOPLE THAT HE FELT WOULD SLOW DOWN INDUSTRIALIZATION

AP: TPS Why did Stalin try to rapidly industrialize the

USSR?

Fascism vs. Communism

MILITARIST CONTROL JAPAN JAPAN TURNED TO THE

MILITARY TO SOLVE THEIR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

JAPAN HAS NO NATURAL ALLIES, NO NATURAL RESOURCES, AND IS SUFFERING FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION

ITS ARMY INVADED MANCHURIA, A RESOURCE RICH REGION IN CHINA, WITHOUT CONSENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT

OFFICERS ASSASSINATED JAPAN’S PRIME MINISTER AND ANY OPPONENT

AP Why did Japan turn to militarists?

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM

GREW AFTER WWI GOT OUR OWN

PROBLEMS….GREAT DEPRESSION

MEMORIES OF WW1 BOOKS AND ARTICLES

CLAIMED ARMS MANUFACTURES TRICKED THE USA INTO GOING TO WAR

THE NYE COMMITTEE HELD HEARINGS THAT DOCUMENTED THE HUGE PROFITS MADE BY THESE BUSINESSES

LEGISLATING NEUTRALTY CONGRESS PASSED 3

NEUTRALITY ACTS BETWEEN 1935 AND 1937.

THE NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1935 MADE IT ILLEGAL FOR THE USA TO SELL ARMS TO ANY NATION AT WAR

CONGRESS PASSED THE NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1937 IN RESPONSE TO ITALY, GERMANY, AND JAPAN = AXIS POWERS

ACT REQUIRED WARRING NATIONS TO BUY ALL NON=MILITARY SUPPLIES ON “CASH CARRY” BASIS

AP TPS Why do most Americans not want to get

involved in European affairs in the 1930’s? How is “Cash and Carry” a good example of

American isolationism and neutrality?

ROOSEVELT’S INTERNATIONALISM FDR KNEW THAT ENDING

THE DEPRESSION WAS THE NATION’S FIRST PRIORITY

FDR NOT AN ISOLATIONIST, BUT BELIEVED IN INTERNATIONALISM = TRADE BETWEEN NATIONS PREVENTS WAR

PLAN BACKFIRED WHEN JAPAN INVADED CHINA

HE WARNED THE NATION THAT IT WAS DANGEROUS TO STAND BY AND LET “AN EPIDEMIC OF LAWLESSNESS” INFECT THE WORLD

The Century Rise of the Third

Reich

Learning Log Summarize what you

have learned today about the “growing epidemic of lawlessness” going on in the world in the 1930’s.

Why did Germany, Italy, and Russia turn to dictators? Why did Japan turn to the military to solve their problems? How did the USA respond to these events?