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WORLD WAR II
WORLD WAR II
• DATES: 1939-1945
• (U.S. ENTERS DEC. 7, 1941)
• OPPONENTS:
– AXIS POWERS: GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN
– ALLIED POWERS:BRITAIN, FRANCE,
USSR(SOVIET UNION), U.S.
CAUSES OF THE WAR
1. RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
2. MILITARISM
3. TREATY OF VERSAILLES
4. APPEASEMENT POLICY
TOTALITARIANISM
• FASCISM
– POLITICAL SYSTEM EMPHASIZING THE LEADER,
NATIONALISM, RACISM, AND NO TOLERANCE OF
OPPOSITION
• MUSSOLINI - ITALY
• HITLER- GERMANY- NAZI PARTY
JAPAN
• HIROHITO-SEEN AS SUN GOD
• TOJO- PRIME MINISTER DURING WAR
• BUILT UP GREAT IMPERIAL NAVY AND ARMY
SOVIET UNION
• JOSEPH STALIN
• CONTROLLED
COUNTRY WITH
STEEL FIST
• PURGES
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
• REPARATIONS LEFT
GERMANY WEAK
• TREATY PUNISHED
DIDN’T SOLVE
• HITLER PLAYED ON
WEAKNESS
APPEASEMENT POLICY
• POLICY OF GIVING
THINGS IN RETURN
FOR PEACE
• MARCH, 1936REARMS
RHINELAND
• MARCH, 1938OCCUPIES AUSTRIA
MUNICH PACT
• HITLER SIGNS PACT
WITH NEVILLE
CHAMBERLAIN
• CHAMBERLAIN
CLAIMS WE WILL
HAVE “PEACE IN
OUR TIME”
HITLER CONTINUES
• MARCH, 1939 TAKES
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• AUGUST, 1939 SIGNS NONAGRESSION PACT WITH SOVIET
UNION
WAR BEGINS
• HITLER INVADES
POLAND
• BLITZKRIEG
INTRODUCEDLIGHTNING WAR
• BRITAIN DECLARES
WAR ON GERMANY
• SEPTEMBER 1, 1939