WORLD WAR II
WORLD WAR II DATES: 1939-1945 OPPONENTS: (U.S. ENTERS DEC. 7, 1941) OPPONENTS: AXIS POWERS: GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN ALLIED POWERS:BRITAIN, FRANCE, USSR(SOVIET UNION), U.S.
RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM CAUSES OF THE WAR RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM MILITARISM TREATY OF VERSAILLES APPEASEMENT POLICY
TOTALITARIANISM FASCISM MUSSOLINI - ITALY HITLER- GERMANY- NAZI PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM EMPHASIZING THE LEADER, NATIONALISM, RACISM, AND NO TOLERANCE OF OPPOSITION MUSSOLINI - ITALY HITLER- GERMANY- NAZI PARTY
JAPAN HIROHITO-SEEN AS SUN GOD TOJO- PRIME MINISTER DURING WAR BUILT UP GREAT IMPERIAL NAVY AND ARMY
SOVIET UNION JOSEPH STALIN CONTROLLED COUNTRY WITH STEEL FIST PURGES
TREATY OF VERSAILLES REPARATIONS LEFT GERMANY WEAK TREATY PUNISHED DIDN’T SOLVE HITLER PLAYED ON WEAKNESS
APPEASEMENT POLICY POLICY OF GIVING THINGS IN RETURN FOR PEACE MARCH, 1936-REARMS RHINELAND MARCH, 1938- OCCUPIES AUSTRIA
MUNICH PACT HITLER SIGNS PACT WITH NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN CHAMBERLAIN CLAIMS WE WILL HAVE “PEACE IN OUR TIME”
HITLER CONTINUES MARCH, 1939 TAKES CZECHOSLOVAKIA AUGUST, 1939 SIGNS NON-AGRESSION PACT WITH SOVIET UNION
WAR BEGINS HITLER INVADES POLAND BLITZKRIEG INTRODUCED-LIGHTNING WAR BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY SEPTEMBER 1, 1939