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CAUSES: NATIONALISM THE SLAVS AND RUSSIA SERBIAN NATIONALISM REUNIFIED GERMANY AND ITALY THE FRENCH AND ALSACE LORRAINE IMPERIALISM MOSTLY IN AFRICA (COLONIALISM FOR RAW MATERIALS) MILITARISM ALLIANCES. LONG-TERM CAUSES OF WWII 1. TREATY OF VERSAILLE - GERMAN REPARATIONS
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CAUSES: • NATIONALISM • THE SLAVS AND RUSSIA • SERBIAN NATIONALISM • REUNIFIED GERMANY AND ITALY • THE FRENCH AND ALSACE LORRAINE • IMPERIALISM • MOSTLY IN AFRICA (COLONIALISM FOR RAW MATERIALS) • MILITARISM • ALLIANCES
LONG-TERM CAUSES OF WWII • 1. TREATY OF VERSAILLE • - GERMAN REPARATIONS • - WAR CRIMES • - DEMILITARIZEDTHE RHINELAND • 2. ITALY WANTED ANOTHER ROMAN EMPIRE • 3. JAPANWANTED TO BE A COLONIAL NATION • 4. RACISM, FASCISM AND NATIONALISM!! • 5. THE GREAT DEPRESSION • 6. APPEASEMENT
SHORT-TERM CAUSES OF WWII • THE RHINELAND WAS MILITARZIED • HITLER IS APPEASED AND GIVEN THE SUDETENLAND AND ‘AUSHLUSS’ WITH AUSTRIA • HITLER GOES INTO POLAND……..
WHY WAS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE SO UNSKILLFUL THE GERMAN EMPEROR, WILHELM II, WAS TO BE CHARGED AS A WAR CRIMINAL, AS WERE MANY OF HIS GENERALS. 2. ARTICLE 231 “THE WAR GUILT CLAUSE” ASSIGNED BLAME TO GERMANY AND TO NO OTHER FOR STARTING WWI 3. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 4. LAND……………………………………………………
THE REPARATION WERE TOO HIGH GERMANY WAS REQUIRED TO PAY 132 BILLION MARKS THAT’S 31 BILLION DOLLARS IN 1919 THAT’S THE EQUIVALENT OF OVER 500 BILLION DOLLARS IN TODAY’S MONEY!!!!!!!!
IN FACT, GERMAN MARKS LOST SO MUCH VALUE THAT A GERMAN CANDY BAR (THEY HAVE GREAT CHOCOLATE) COST 100 MILLION MARKS. ON SALE: ONLY 100,000,000 MARKS!!!!!!!
THIS, MIXED WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION, CREATED THE ECONOMIC CLIMATE WHICH ADOLF HILTER WAS ABLE TO SO EASILY EXPLOIT.
THEY HAD A GREAT DEAL OF LAND TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM POLAND WOULD GET EASTERN GERMANY RUSSIA WOULD ALSO GET A PART OF EASTERN GERMANY (WHICH IT STILL OWNS TODAY BY THE WAY) OBVIOULSY FRANCE WOULD GET BACK ALSACE-LORRAINE DENMARK GOT A PIECE OF NORTHERN GERMANY CZECHOLSAVAKIA GOT A PIECE OF SOUTHERN GERMANY CALLED THE SUDETENLAND (WHICH HITLER WILL THEN, UM , TAKE BACK!)
6. BELGIUMGOT A PIECE OF WESTERN GERMANY 7. EVEN TINY LITTLE LITHUANIA GOT IN ON THE FUN 8. THE CITY OF DANZIG, TODAY IN POLAND, WOULD BE RUN BY THE INCOMPETENTLEAGUE OF NATIONS 9. ALL GERMAN COLONIES IN AFRICA WERE GIVEN TO THE REST OF EUROPE 10.AND JUST TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY ALL GERMAN COLONIES IN THE PACIFIC WERE GIVEN TO ____ __________! (GUESS)
AND GERMANY WAS UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOWED TO KEEP ANY TROOPS IN THE RHINELAND
BUT GERMAN NATIONALISM TOOK ON A DIFFERENT FIORM WITH HITLER’S OVERT HATRED OF JEWS, SLAVS, BLACKS, HOMOSEXUALS, THE MENTALLY RETARDED, GYPSIES, AND ANYONE WITHOUT BLONDE HAIR OR BLUE EYES.
FASCISM: A GOVERNMENT IN WHICH THE STATE CONTROLS EVERYTHING, AND IS FERVENTLY NATIONALISTIC, VIOLENT AND RACIST.
ITALY………………. A PIECE OF AUSTRIA SEVERAL PIECES OF YUGOSLAVIA BUT IN FORMING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON VETOED THIS PROVISION (AFTER ALL, ORIGINALLY ITLAY FOUGHT WITH THE BAD GUYS OF GERMANY AND THE AUSTR-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE.)
THIS, MIXED WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AGAIN CREATED THE IDEAL ENVIRONMENT FOR FASCIST CONTROL AND RACIST BLAME.
WAY BACK IN 1935 MUSSOLINI INVADED ETHIOPIA IN HOPES OF ADDING IT TO ITALY’S COLONIES IN EAST AFRICA,. IT IN EFFECT EXPOSED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AS ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS.
To President Harry S. Truman. Haile Selassie I. It is us today, it will be you tomorrow. -- “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” ― Haile Selassie I
JAPAN INVADES MANCHURIA IN 1931 AGAIN, THE LEAGUE DID NOTHING
THEN JAPAN INVADES CHINA IN 1937. THIS WAS KNOWN AS THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR AGAIN, THE LEAGUE DID NOTHING
APPEASEMENT ITALY ATTACKING ETHIOPIA JAPAN INVADING CHINA GERMANY MILITARZIES THE RHINELAND
GERMANY TAKES AUSTRIA-MARCH, 1938 HITLER AND CHAMBERLAIN SIGN THE MUNICH PACT OF 1938 FOR WHICH HITLER WAS NOMINATED AS A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE-SEPTEMBER, 1938 GERMANY IS GIVEN A PIECE OF CZECHOSLAVAKIA KNOWN AS THE SUDETENLAND GREMANY GOES AHEAD AND TAKES THE REST OF CZECHOLSVAKIA-MARCH, 1939 SEPTEMBER, 1939 UH-OH….GERMANY TAKES POLAND!!!!!!!!
GERMANY TAKES AUSTRIA (ANSCHLUSS). MARCH, 1938
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN AND HITLER SIGN THE MUNICH PACT 1938
GERMANY TAKES A PICE OF CZECHOSLAVAKIA KNOWN AS THE SUDETENLAND
TECHNOLOGY: WWI WWII AIRPLANES BETTER AIRPLANES U-BOATS BETTER U-BOATS FLAMETHROWERS AND TANKS BETTER TANKS AND AUTOMTIAC MACHINE GUNS SONAR RADAR GAS MASKS ATOMIC BOMB
HOMEFRONT: ISOLATIONSIT TO THE CORE!!!!!!!
IN BOTH WWI AND WII AFRICAN -AMERICANS PARTICPATED BUT SEGREGATED AFRICAN-AMERICANS, LIKE ALL OTHER AMERICANS, WERE ISOLATIONIST. THEY REGARDED WWI, AMD WWII, AS “EUROPE’S WARS!” ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY TENDED TO SIDE WITH FRANCE BECAUSE FRANCE WAS AHEAD OF THE GAME IN TERMS OF RACIAL EQUALITY. ALLOWING FRENCH-AFRICAN SOLDIERS TO FIGHT WITH OTHER FRENCH SOLDIERS
AS WITH WOMEN, AFRICAN-AMERICANS SAW WWI AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AT HOME. AFTER ALL, THEY ARGUED, IT WOULD BE HYPOCRITICAL FOR AMERICAN TO FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY ABROAD, AND NOT PROVIDE IT FOR BLACKS OR FOR WOMEN AT HOME. "Let us have a real democracy for the United States and then we can advise a house cleaning over on the other side of the water," the Baltimore Afro-American asserted.
W. E. B. Du Bois arguedIN FAVOR of a seperateOfficer Training School for African-Americans
Over one million African Americans responded to their draft calls, and roughly 370,000 black men were inducted into the army.
WOMEN IN WWI WWI: GAVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE THE 19TH AMENDMENT: 1920
As well as paid employment, they were also expected to take on other unpaid, voluntary work such as preparing rolling bandages, knitting clothes and preparing hampers for soldiers on the front. • Working in factories making ammunition that would be sent to the front and also farming the land to keep up food supplies. • - Women helped pack up coal into sacks for distribution to where it was needed.
21,480 U.S. Army nurses • Eighteen were African-American Army • 1,476 U.S. Navy nurses • 13,000women admitted into active duty in the Navy and Marines but only had non-combat positions • (They received the same benefits and responsibilities as men, including identical pay (US$28.75 per month) • The U.S. Army recruited and trained 233 female bilingual telephone operators
WWII: THE WORKFORCE • The percentage of females in the workforce increased from 27% to 37% • 25% of married women had a job outside of the domestic sphere (An effect which became known as "Rosie the Riveter" effect. • IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE DURING WWII SET UP THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT OF THE 1970’S