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Rise of ultra-nationalism and WW II. 1920s in Germany. The new democracy is saddled with admitting responsibility, giving up reparations and territory, and suffering inflation. When Germany is unable to make payments, French occupy the Ruhr German state prints more money to pay its bills.
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1920s in Germany • The new democracy is saddled with admitting responsibility, giving up reparations and territory, and suffering inflation. • When Germany is unable to make payments, French occupy the Ruhr • German state prints more money to pay its bills
German Marks needed to buyone US dollar: • 1919 April--12 • December--47 • 1921 November--263 • 1922 July--493 • December--7,000 • 1923 January--17,000 • July--53,000 • August--4,621,000 • October--25,260,000,000 • November--2,193,600,000,000 • December--4,200,000,000,000
1930’s--Depression and increase of nationalism • rise of militant nationalism--”fascism”--in Germany, Italy, and Japan
In Germany • Depression hits especially hard • 1932 Hitler and Nazis claiming Germany had been “stabbed in the back” in WWI and after, gains about 1/3 of electorate • January 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor • February—responding to mysterious Reichstag fire, receives emergency powers, ending the democracy
German Expansion • Under Hitler, Germany rebuilds military • 1938 Germany annexes Austria, justified with bogus plebiscite • Then invades Czechoslovakia • France and England do nothing--for “peace in our time”
World War II begins • Hitler-Stalin Pact allows partition of Poland between Soviet Union and Germany • 1939 they invade, and Britain and France declare war • 1940 Germany occupies France • 1941 Germany attacks Soviet Union • months later, Japan attacks at Pearl Harbor
In the East • since 1910 Japan had colonized Korea • 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria • 1937 Japan invades China proper
“Asian holocaust” • the rape of Nanking • unit 731--American cover-up • “comfort women” • Induced famine in Vietnam and Indonesia
Axis powers--Germany, Italy, JapanAllies--Britain, France, then Soviet Union, and United States
1945 Allies victorious in Europe, then Japan • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki