1. World War II Review

2. Treaty of Versailles—What happened?

3. What was the 14th Point? Placed full blame of World War I on Germany
German economy collapsed
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points mostly ignored
What was the 14th Point?

4. FASCISM is...
A way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government

5. ITALY – BENITO MUSSOLINI
Organized veterans and discontented Italians in the the Fascist party (coined the term Fascism)
Latin word fasces meaning a bundle of sticks wrapped around an axe
Promised
end to corruption
restoration of Roman greatness
Improve economy and army

6. ITALY – BENITO MUSSOLINI
March on Rome
30,000 fascists forced the King to make Mussolini the leader
Il Duce, “The Leader” (eel-doo-che)

7. ITALY – BENITO MUSSOLINI
Jailed opponents
Censored the press
Outlawed political parties

8. GERMANY – ADOLF HITLER High school dropout WWI honored soldier
Failed artist
Joined small group who believe that the Treaty of Versailles was destroying Germany called National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NAZI)
German Fascism
Formed the Brown Shirts or Storm Troopers
Hurt those who opposed Hitler

9. GERMANY – ADOLF HITLER Der Fuhrer – The Leader (FOO-rer)
Attempted to imitate the March on Rome
Found guilty of treason
5 year sentence
Served 9 months
Wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in jail.
Included theories of living space and Aryan superiority

10. GERMANY – ADOLF HITLER, CHANCELLOR
Conservatives made him Chancellor
Book burning
Hitler took over creation of literature, art and press
Kristallnacht—Night of Broken Glass
November 9, 1938
Pogroms against Jews
91 killed, 30,000 arrested and sent to concentration camps

11. GERMANY –HITLER’S 3RD REICH
Book burning
Hitler took over creation of literature, art and press
Kristallnacht—Night of Broken Glass
November 9, 1938
Pogroms against Jews
91 killed, 30,000 arrested and sent to concentration camps

12. Fascism Vs. Communism Similar to Communism Different to Communism
Denies individual rights
No democracy
The state is supreme
Different to Communism
Fascism does not care about the “classless society”
Strong should overpower the weak

13. Soviet Union—Stalin
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14. Appeasement Appeasement:
giving into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
The Munich Agreement
Germany would receive the Sudetenland, and promised Germany would not take further land from Czechoslovakia

15. Sudetenland

16. DATES TO REMEMBER Occupied Czechoslovakia
3/13/1939-Germany violated Munich Agreement
Occupied Czechoslovakia
9/1/1939-Germany invaded Poland, which initiated WWII in Europe
9/3/1939-Great Britain and France declare war on Germany