Adapted from Susan M. Pojer
The Versailles Treaty
Land Reparations War Guilt League of Nations Military Restrictions 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 The Versailles Treaty
Although President Wilson was the driving force behind the creation of the League of Nations, the United States did not join it. The League of Nations
The “Stab-In-The-Back” Theory German soldiers are dissatisfied. German soldiers are dissatisfied.
The Great Depression
Economic economic functions controlled by state corporations or state Cultural Censorship Indoctrination Secret police Social Supported by middle class, industrialists and military Chief Examples Italy Spain Germany Political nationalist racist (Nazism) One-party rule Supreme leader Basic principles Authoritarianism State more important than the individual Charismatic leader Action oriented Characteristics of Fascism
Italy Dictator Benito Mussolini addresses his followers
Rise of the Nazis Germany’s economic woes Political instability Fascism National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Adolf Hitler
The Nazis promoted a view of Germany as surrounded by enemies and threatened on all sides
Hitler sworn in as Chancellor, 1933 The Nazis Gain Power
Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie IlDuce
Germany Rearms German troops march back into the Rhineland, March 1936
Hitler and Mussolini Rome-Berlin Axis Signing of Tripartite pact to form the Axis Alliance Building an Axis
The Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco
The Spanish Civil War: A Dress Rehearsal for WWII? Italian troops in Madrid
The Destruction of Guernica