1. -World War Two-
Setting the Stage
Level 2

2. Setting the Stage for War

3. Leads to bitterness and resentment in Germany
The Versailles Treaty
Leads to bitterness and resentment in Germany

4. A Weak League of Nations

5. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations
No control of major conflicts.
No progress in disarmament.
No effective military force.

6. Great Depression Caused by destruction during WWI
Caused by reparations
Italy (Ethiopia) and Japan (Manchuria) took over other nations to make money

7. Soviet Union-Communism
Meet the Dictators
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Soviet Union-Communism
Italy-Fascism
Hideki Tojo
Empire of Japan
Germany-Nazi Party

8. Dictator- held absolute power over the individual person

9. Joseph Stalin Soviet Union Communist Totalitarian Dictatorship
*Use of Secret Police
*Russian people lived in poverty

10. Italy: Benito Mussolini
Fascism
A political movement that believed in a strong national government and a belief that foreigners and minorities were inferior

11. Japan 1941: Prime minister: Hideki Tojo Policies: Militarism
Expand into Asia

12. NAZI Party: Eliminated his political rivals Took over government How?
National Socialist German Workers Party
Hitler: Rise to Power
Eliminated his political rivals
Took over government
How?
Became Führer of Germany 1934

13. Nazi Rally 1937

14. Totalitarian State: HITLER’S GERMANY
A single party controls the government and EVERY aspect of people’s lives. Criticism of the government is severely punished.
Hitler video #5

15. Control over Youth Hitler Youth groups Control of Education
HITLER’S GERMANY
Control over Youth
Hitler Youth groups
Control of Education

16. Militarism HITLER’S GERMANY

17. Violated the Treaty of Versailles
HITLER’S
GERMANY
Violated the Treaty of Versailles

18. The League of Nation disapproves of Hitler’s militarism but takes NO action.

19. The League of Nations was following a policy of Appeasement

20. Appeasement failed to stop Hitler
*Appeasement is a policy where nations make concessions (something granted as a response to a demand) to an aggressive nation to avoid war
*They do this in order to maintain peace

21. Munich Agreement
France & Britain agreed to let Hitler have control of the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) if he promised to stop his aggression

22. Hitler’s Aggression Austria is Annexed peacefully by German in 1938
Czechoslovakia is invaded March 1939
Poland invaded September 1939