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Unit 8: World War II
2.27.18Slide2
Entry Task
America is a country in which…Slide3
Refresher Course
Treaty of Versailles, 1919
Germany signed under protest
Enforced
strictly at first
But then, Great Depression
Countries could no longer afford to watch Germany
Germany couldn’t pay debts
Enter,
HitlerSlide4
Fascism Rises in Europe
Fascism
: A militant political movement emphasizing
loyalty to the state
&
obedience to a leader
Leader has complete authority (no checks & balances, no separation of powers)
Sometimes emphasizes the greater importance of an ethnic groupSlide5
Fascism Rises in Europe
Totalitarian Rule
: Government that exerts total control over a nation
Dictator
: a
ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by
forceSlide6
Italy - Mussolini
1922: Took complete control of Italy -“Il Duce”
His goal: create a new Roman Empire
Organized gangs of “
Blackshirts
”
Suspended elections & declared dictatorshipSlide7
Russia - Stalin
Stalin had been gathering power in Russia
Made Russia into an industrial power
Controlled Russia almost entirely through fearSlide8
Japan - Hirohito
Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, also began gathering power before WWII
Japan had also been launching invasions of China, trying to gain more land
1937 Japan begins all-out brutal invasion of China
Condemned by world powers
“Rape of Nanking” – 100,000 civilians put to death or brutalizedSlide9
Germany - Hitler
1923: Hitler tries to overthrow the government, but fails.
While in prison, he wrote
Mein
Kampf
Blamed Jews, proposed building stronger military and expanding German borders
A
powerful
&
spellbinding
speaker, attracted Germans
desperate for
changePromised the disenchanted a better life & a new and glorious
Germany
1932: Hitler becomes ChancellorSlide10
Hitler’s Anti-Semitism
Hatred & persecution of Jews was not new
Grew up in Vienna, Austria
Mayor was extremely anti-Semitic; hatred of Jews was widespread
Believed the “Aryan race” to be superior to all othersSlide11
Hitler’s Anti-Semitism
Germany loses the war
Hitler believes Jews betrayed Germany
No other reason why the German Empire should have lost
Economic struggles
Hitler believed Jews behind economic problemsSlide12
Definitions
Scapegoat
: A person/group who is blamed for the mistakes, faults, or problems of othersSlide13
Persuade
: to convince a person to do something, as by advertising or urging
synonyms: influence, entice, impel
Propaganda
: information, ideas, or
rumors
deliberately
spread widely
to help
or harm a
person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
DefinitionsSlide14
Joseph Goebbels
Minister of Propaganda
Designed posters
Published articles
Incited street violence
Led boycott of Jewish businesses
Led book burningsSlide15
Front page of the most popular issue ever of the Nazi publication, Der
Stürmer
, with a reprint of a medieval depiction of a purported ritual murder committed by Jews.Slide16
An
anti-semitic
poster
published in Poland in March 1941.
The caption reads, "
Jews are lice; They cause typhus
."Slide17
A page
of an
anti-semitic
coloring book
for
children with a
“portrait”
of a Jew drawn by the German caricaturist known as
Fips
.
The caption under the star reads: "Without a solution to the Jewish question, there will be no salvation for mankind."