Allies Great Britain Russia France United States Axis Germany Italy Japan Nationalism in Europe and Asia Problems of WWII caused by WWI Treaty of Versailles War reparations Strong leaders for support ID: 620329
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The Start of World War II
Allies:Great BritainRussiaFranceUnited States
Axis:
Germany
Italy
JapanSlide2
Nationalism in Europe and Asia
Problems of WWII caused by WWI Treaty of VersaillesWar reparationsStrong leaders for support
Dictators took over…with big plansSlide3
Soviet Union (Russia)
Revolution, civil war = communist by 1924Joseph Stalin took controlGovernment farms replace private property
State-run economy
Eliminated opposition
Estimates of 8-13 million
Totalitarian regime: citizens have zero rightsSlide4
Italy
Unemployment and poverty cause Communist supportBenito Mussolini: “protect the upper class”Fascist regime: nationalism
interests of state over individual
Crushed all opposition… totalitarian stateSlide5
Germany
Adolf Hitler rose to power of Nazi partyHitler: tremendous oratorNazism: (German fascism) based on extreme nationalism
Poverty after Treaty of Versailles (war reparations)
6 million unemployed
Joined Nazi party
Germans were humiliated and desperate…Hitler was last hopeSlide6
Nazism
In Mein Kampf, Hitler discussed his goals:"Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill, which we see before our eyes today, is almost exclusively the product of Aryan creative power."
Unite all Germans (Aryan = blonde hair, blue eyes)
anticommunist Slide7
Other goals
"The external security of a people is largely determined by the size of its territory." Expand territory“To secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled on this earth”Lebensraum: living spaceSlide8
Final goal
"Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end satanically glaring at and spying on the unconscious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate." Racial purification (all races not German)
Aryan (blue-eyed, blonde-haired)Slide9
Japan
Military leaders also believed in expanded living spaceIn 1931, Japan attacked ManchuriaVery rich in resourcesLeague of Nations stepped inJapan dropped out of LN
1937, Hideki Tojo takes overSlide10
America had a choice
Many people believed the US should get involved in EuropeIsolationists believed US should focus on “America First”During 1930s books said US went to WWI because of rich bankers and arms dealersSlide11
Steps toward war
Munich Appeasement: empowers HitlerAllies gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler if he “promised to stop there” (1938)“Cash and Carry”Countries could buy weapons from US if they paid cash and carried them with their own ships (1939)Slide12
Steps toward war (cont.)
Lend-Lease Plan:Allies ran out of cashLend or lease arms to “countries whose defense was vital to the US” (1941)
Atlantic Charter:
Meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill (Britain) to set up a world post WWII (1941)
Became basis for the AlliesSlide13
Steps toward war (cont.)
First Peacetime Draft (Selective Training and Service Act 1940)Aimed to build up army in case of war16 million were registered, 1 million were called
July 1941
US and Britain cut off oil supplies to Japan (Manchuria)
Japan could leave China or try to get resources in Pacific