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World War II

Explore the events and factors that led to the outbreak of World War II, including the Versailles Treaty, the rise of fascism, the Great Depression, and the failure of appeasement.

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. The Road to War: 1919-1939

  3. The Versailles Treaty

  4. The Versailles Treaty • Land • Reparations • War Guilt • League of Nations • Military Restrictions

  5. The Versailles Treaty • German army reduced • Germany barred from having tanks, an air force, or submarines • Occupied DMZ west of the Rhineland Map showing German territory lost and the Rhineland DMZ

  6. The League of Nations Although President Wilson was the driving force behind the creation of the League of Nations, the United States did not join it.

  7. The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied.

  8. The Great Depression

  9. Economic • economic functions controlled by state corporations or state • Cultural • Censorship • Indoctrination • Secret police • Basic principles • Authoritarianism • State more important than the individual • Charismatic leader • Action oriented Characteristics of Fascism • Social • Supported by middle class, industrialists and military • Political • nationalist • racist (Nazism) • One-party rule • Supreme leader • Chief Examples • Italy • Spain • Germany

  10. Italy Dictator Benito Mussolini addresses his followers

  11. Rise of the Nazis • Germany’s economic woes • Political instability • Fascism • National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  12. Adolf Hitler

  13. The Nazis promoted a view of Germany as surrounded by enemies and threatened on all sides

  14. The Nazis Gain Power Hitler sworn in as Chancellor, 1933

  15. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Il Duce Emperor Haile Selassie

  16. Germany Rearms German troops march back into the Rhineland, March 1936

  17. Building an Axis Signing of Tripartite pact to form the Axis Alliance Hitler and Mussolini Rome-Berlin Axis

  18. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939 Francisco Franco

  19. The Spanish Civil War:A Dress Rehearsal for WWII? Italian troops in Madrid

  20. The Destruction of Guernica

  21. American Foreign Policy, 1932–1941 • Isolationism • Neutrality Acts • FDR • Lend-Lease • The Atlantic Charter Churchill and FDR at sea during the Atlantic Charter talks

  22. America-First Committee Charles Lindbergh

  23. The Austrian Anschluss, 1938

  24. The “Problem” of theSudetenland

  25. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

  26. 1938: Hitler named Time’s Man of the Year

  27. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

  28. The Nazi-SovietNon-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

  29. The War Begins!

  30. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

  31. German Troops March into Warsaw

  32. German Advances, 1939

  33. The European & North African Theaters

  34. France – False Sense of Security? The MaginotLine

  35. European Theater of Operations

  36. Dunkirk EvacuatedJune 4, 1940

  37. France SurrendersJune, 1940

  38. A Divided France Henri Petain

  39. The French Resistance The Free French General Charles DeGaulle

  40. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

  41. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

  42. Battle of Britain:The “Blitz”

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