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WWII
1939-1945
Post WWI Issues
•Unemployment
•Reconstruction
•National Debts
•Social Unrest
•Leadership
CAUSES OF WWII
1. Totalitarianism- Government rule by one
man
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USSR
Stalin
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Italy
Mussolini
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Germany Hitler
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Japan
Tojo
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Totalitarian Themes
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Single-Party Dictatorship
State Control of the Economy
Use of Terror (Secret Police)
Censorship
Indoctrination (Propaganda)
Strict Obedience to a Single
Leader
Obey!
MUSSOLINI-ITALY
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FOUNDED THE FASCIST
PARTY (NATION WAS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
THE INDIVIDUAL)
ANTICOMMUNIST
TOOK THE TITLE “IL
DUCE” (THE LEADER)
BACKED BY THE
BLACKSHIRTS (FASCIST
MILITIA)
HITLER-GERMANY
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ANTICOMMUNIST/ADMIRED
MUSSOLINI
ONE OF THE FIRST
RECRUITS OF THE NAZI
PARTY
WROTE MEIN KAMPF IN
PRISON WHERE HE
OUTLINED HIS MASTER
RACE
APPOINTED PRIME
MINISTER BY GERMAN
PRESIDENT…LATER GAVE
HIMSELF THE TITLE FUHRER
(LEADER)
TOJO-JAPAN
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JAPANESE MILITARY
BLAMED
DEPRESSION ON
CORRUPT
POLITICIANS
MILITARY SEIZED
CONTROL
SUPPORTED A
TOTALITARIAN
STATE
MAO ZEDONG- CHINA
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MARXIST
USHERED IN
COMMUNIST
CONTROL OF CHINA
FOLLOWING
JAPANESE
SURRENDER
FRANCO-SPAIN
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FASCIST WHO
TOOK
CONTROL OF
THE
DEMOCRATIC
GOVERMENT
SUPPORTED A
NATIONALIST
POLICY
CHURCHILL- GREAT BRITAIN
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PRIME MINISTER
OF GREAT
BRITAIN
FOLLOWING
CHAMBERLAIN
HAD A STRONG
FRIENDSHIP
WITH F.D.R.
STALIN- U.S.S.R.
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JOSPEH STALIN:
COMMUNIST
DICTATOR
BECAME LEADER OF
USSR FOLLOWING
THE DEATH OF
LENIN
GOVERNMENT
AIMED TO
CONTROL EVERY
ASPECT OF DAILY
LIFE
ROOSEVELT- U.S.
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U.S. PRESIDENT
DURING MUCH OF
WWII
DIED BEFORE THE
WAR ENDED
ONLY PRESIDENT
TO SERVE MORE
THAN TWO TERMS
MACARTHUR & PATTON- U.S.
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GENERALS WHO LED THE U.S. BATTLES
IN EUROPE & THE PACIFIC
TRUMAN- U.S.
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BECAME
PRESIDENT
AFTER THE
DEATH OF FDR IN
1945
MADE THE
DECISION TO
DROP THE
ATOMIC BOMB
CAUSES OF WWII
2. Militarism- showed strength & created jobs
CAUSES OF WWII
3. Nationalism- Germany believed in
the “master race” and Italy want to
recapture the glory of ancient Rome
CAUSES OF WWII
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Imperialism-expanding countries
borders
Failure of the League of NationsU.S. feared the alliance systems,
USSR was not asked to join, Italy
and Germany ignored decisions
made by the League
Worldwide Depression- linked to
the U.S. depression-countries
looked to dictators for an end to
the hard times
BUILD UP TO WAR
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1936-HITLER OCCUPIES THE
RHINELAND
FEB 1938 -HILTER ANNEXES
AUSTRIA
SEP 1938 -HITLER SEEKS THE
SUDETENLAND (CZECH)
EUROPE’S LEADERS AGREE
(APPEASE) TO GIVE IN TO HITLER
GERMANY SIGNS NON-AGGRESSION
PACT WITH RUSSIA (SECRET PLANS
TO DIVIDE UP POLAND)
WAR BEGINS
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GERMANY INVADES POLAND ON
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 WITH
“BLITZKRIEG” TACTICS
ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1939 BRITAIN AND
FRANCE DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY
Nazi Blitzkrieg April - May 1940
Hitler conquers Denmark, Norway,
Belgium, and the Netherlands
Defeated and forced
to acknowledge the
Nazi government.
FALL OF FRANCE
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AFTER WWI-FRANCE BUILT A LINE
OF CONCRETE BUNKERS CALLED
THE MAGINOT LINE
HITLER OUTFLANKED LINE BY
INVADING BELGIUM, NEHTERLANDS,
LUXEMBOURG
MAGINOT LINE
MAGINOT LINE
MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK
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HITLER’S 3-DAY DELAY ENABLED
THE FRENCH/ENGLISH TO EVACUATE
338,000 TROOPS FROM THE PORT AT
DUNKIRK (May - June 1940)
BRITAIN LEFT BEHIND NEARLY ALL
OF THEIR EQUIPMENT-(90,000
RIFLES, 120,000 VEHICLES, 7 TONS
OF AMMO)
FRANCE SURRENDERED 3 WEEKS
LATER
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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JUNE 1940 -FULL AIR ATTACK ON
ENGLAND TO DESTROY THE ROYAL
AIR FORCE (RAF) BY THE
LUFTWAFFE (GERMAN AIRFORCE)
DEVELOPMENT OF THE RADAR
SAVED ENGLAND FROM INVASION
(OUTNUMBERED 8-1)
OCT 1940 -GERMANY CANCELLED
INVASION
Germany Invades…
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Rhineland (France)
Austria
Sudetenland (Czech)
Poland (September 1, 1939)
France (Maginot lineoutflanked)
Miracle at Dunkirk (Evacuation)
Battle of Britain (Luftwaffe vs.
R.A.F-outnumbered 8-1)
Lend-Lease Act
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FDR found a way
around the Neutrality
Act of 1939
U.S. would send aid to
any country considered
“vital to the defense of
the U.S.” as long as
they agreed to repay
the U.S. after the war
*FDR elected to 3rd term in 1940
PROJECT!
WHERE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES UNITE