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The Rise of Dictators
Unit 4- Hot and Cold War
Lesson 1
(Section 24.1)
Objectives
Explain why WW2 is an extension of
WW1.
Trace the rise of dictators and their
actions that put the world on the path
to war.
Locate key areas and alliances of WW2
in a map activity.
Warm Up
How did the Treaty
of Versailles set up
Euro for WW2?
Humiliated GRM
New borders
Marginalized smaller
allies
Europe Post WW1
Conditions?
Economic Depression
Social and Political
Unrest
Opportunist #1- Joseph Stalin
1924 Soviet Union
Communism
Reform Agriculture &
Industry “Great Leap
Forward”
Collective Farms
Industrialization
Reign of Terror
Purges – govt of all enemies
Opportunist #2- Benito Mussolini
1922 Italy
Fascism
Importance of nation
& leader over individ.
Nationalism &
Empire-Building
Ethiopia (35-36)
Opportunist #3- Hideki Tojo
•1930’s Japan
•Military regime wants
imperial and industrial power
•Maintain Emperor Hirohito
as puppet figurehead
Opportunist #4- Adolf Hitler
1933 Germany
Nazism
German Empire
Racial Purification
Mein Kampf
GRM’s problems
Plans for nation
Remilitarize , Expand, & Align
Draft & rearm
Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Rome-Berlin Axis (later Tokyo)
Opportunist #5- Francisco Franco
Spanish Civil War 1936
Franco’s Nationalists
• Supported by GRM & ITL
Republicans
• USSR
Military Dictatorship
1939-1975
The Crisis Deepens
• Road to War
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Prevention?
APPEASEMENT – pacify,
satisfy to avoid war
Munich Conference
NEUTRALITY
Nye Committee
Comparing Causes of War
World War I?
World War II?
•Nationalism
•Nationalism
•Imperialism
•Imperialism
•Militarism
•Militarism
•Alliances
•Alliances
•International Anarchy
•International Anarchy
•Assassination F2
•Polish Blitzkrieg
Activity
Closure
In what ways did WWI “lead into” WWII?