Download 6.4 The Path to War - Grants Pass School District 7

Warm-up #15:
What is the Cartoon
Saying? Is it painting
the U.S. in a Positive
light?
Essential Question
• What events lead to
the start of World War
II?
Rise of Fascism
• WWI forced governments to assume large amounts of
control.
• Powerful leaders who promise better futures arise.
• Beginnings of totalitarian states
• Nation in which the government controls every aspect of citizen’s
lives
• Dictators
Fascist Italy
• Lower class resisting wealthy elite
• Workers in cities on strike
• Italy did not gain much in Treaty of Versailles
• Benito Mussolini and fascist
party come to power
• Fascism: glorifies nation over
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self and dedication to a strong
leader
Elections and political parties
weaken
Private property okay
War and violence okay as long
as it is to promote national
goals
Silenced critics, controlled
schools, secret police
• Italy takes over Ethiopia
• League of Nations tries to intervene, but
has no real power
• Place economic sanctions
• Restricts weapons and raw materials sale
• Does not cut off sale of oil, coal, or iron
What were the conditions like in Germany
after WWI?
Germany
• Democratic government (Weimar Republic) set
up after WWI faces frequent turmoil:
• Threat of revolution
• Economic ruin/Huge debts
• Hyper Inflation
• Reparations
• 1930’s – Great Depression world wide, hit GER hard.
• Unemployment
German Inflation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSFXt-Ogm4
Nazi Party
• Core beliefs
• Nationalism: Germans part of superior Aryan
race.
• Anti-Semitism: blamed Jews for Germany’s
defeat in WWI and current econ. problems.
• Fascism: Violence and strong government
control needed to advance Germany
• Anti-communist
• Eliminated other political parties
• Controlled every aspect of GER life
Warm Up # 16
• What conditions lead to
more Fascist and
Totalitarian leaders in
Europe?
Warm Up # 17
• What are 2 things that you learned from the video last
time?
• -Hint: look at your video question on pg. 9
Reminders
• Appeasement Thesis Statement already
due
• Friday April 21st
• Project Fixes Due
• Wednesday April 26th
• Unit 6 Test
• Unit 6 Workbook Due
• Unit 6 Overview Due
Nazi Rule
• Secret Police
• Controlled press, schools, and churches
• Strengthened German Men
• Preached hard work, sacrifice, and service to state
• Employed men in building program and military
• Anti-Jewish campaign
• Concentration camps
Nazi Aggression
• 1936: GER sends troops into the Rhineland.
• 1938: GER annexes Austria
• World responds with policy of appeasement
• Making concessions to an aggressor in order to
keep peace.
• Other nations have no money or desire to enter
conflict
• Gave GER part of Czechoslovakia where many
Germans lived.
• Hitler takes the rest 6 months later.
Munich Conference
• 1938 – Hitler promised to settle future disputes with
negotiations and not take any more land by force.
Germany Builds Allies
• 1939 – GER and Soviet Union sign non-
aggression treaty.
• Would not attack each other
• GER wants to gain Poland, now eliminates threat from
other side
The Path to War
• 1920’s and 30’s: European nations struggle to
recover from WW1.
• Economic hardships
• Political unrest
• Fear of revolution (like in Russia)
The Politics of Hunter
• 1. In early March 1919, General Herbert Plumer, commander
of the British Army of Occupation, informed Prime Minister
Lloyd George that his men were begging to be sent home;
they could no longer stand the sight of "hordes of skinny and
bloated children pawing over the offal" from the British
camps.
• 2. A German child who was ten years old in 1918, and who
survived, was twenty-two in 1930. Vincent raises the question
of whether the miseries and suffering from hunger in the
early, formative years help account to some degree for the
enthusiasm of German youth for Nazism later on.
League of Nations
• League of Nations exists to keep peace among
countries.
• Has no real power
• No money
• No military
• No U.S.
The Century: Civilians at War pg. 9
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMWYblZ8gwQ&t=40
0s
• 3rd Period: 28:58
• 6th Period: 32:50
• 7th Period: 34:00
• Skip from 32:45 – 49:55
Essential Question
• What events lead to
the start of World War
II?