1. WORLD WAR II

2. 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.

3. RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
CAUSES OF THE WAR
RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
MILITARISM
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
APPEASEMENT POLICY

4. 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

5. JAPAN HIROHITO-SEEN AS SUN GOD TOJO- PRIME MINISTER DURING WAR
BUILT UP GREAT IMPERIAL NAVY AND ARMY

6. SOVIET UNION
JOSEPH STALIN
CONTROLLED COUNTRY WITH STEEL FIST
PURGES

7. TREATY OF VERSAILLES REPARATIONS LEFT GERMANY WEAK
TREATY PUNISHED DIDN’T SOLVE
HITLER PLAYED ON WEAKNESS

8. APPEASEMENT POLICY POLICY OF GIVING THINGS IN RETURN FOR PEACE
MARCH, 1936-REARMS RHINELAND
MARCH, OCCUPIES AUSTRIA

9. MUNICH PACT HITLER SIGNS PACT WITH NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
CHAMBERLAIN CLAIMS WE WILL HAVE “PEACE IN OUR TIME”

10. HITLER CONTINUES MARCH, 1939 TAKES CZECHOSLOVAKIA
AUGUST, 1939 SIGNS NON-AGRESSION PACT WITH SOVIET UNION

11. WAR BEGINS HITLER INVADES POLAND BLITZKRIEG INTRODUCED-LIGHTNING WAR
BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939