Road to WWII Fascism, Asia, and US Response (10.1 & 10.2)

Review Match the dictator w/ the appropriate country. Stalin ____________________ Hitler ____________________ Mussolini _____________________

Fascism – means a government by dictators Francisco Franco – dictator who crushed the hopes of a democracy in Spain and proved to Mussolini and Hitler that dictators could rise. Franco won control of Spain in (Guess what year Hitler decided to attack Poland and start WWII)

Japan – Pacific island nation that needed raw materials, so they attacked China after hardships of the depression

US response to events in Europe Reasons the US decided to isolate 1. Geography 2. Great Depression 3. Effects of WWI – laws passed to stay neutral

FDR – What did he think?

Giving in to Hitler – We let him build the 3 rd Reich (empire) Appeasement – (doing something to keep peace.) Britain’s Chamberlain believed Hitler when he said he only took the Sudetenland and the Rhineland for lebensraum (What is that?) Hitler wanted to unite the German speaking people of Czechoslovakia and Austria

Hitler’s Expansion 1. Austria – March, 1938 – He was Austrian! This is called the Anschluss 2. The Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) this was for lebensraum Timeout! – this is when he met w/ Chamberlain from Britain. Chamberlain famously said after the meeting, “Peace with honor, peace in our time.”

Holocaust – we’ll do this another day

Germany attacks Poland to start WWII 9/1/1939 – WWII begins when Germany attacks Poland w/ a tactic called Blitzkrieg.