1. Unit 8: World War II
3.6.17

2. Entry Task Please turn in your Postcards from the Past project
Then take out your notebook & be ready for notes

3. Refresher Course Treaty of Versailles, 1919 Peace Treaty of WWI
Written by Allied Powers with no input from Germany
Created the League of Nations
Germany not allowed to join for 7 years
US voted not to join – because did not agree with “internationalism”

4. Refresher Course Treaty of Versailles, 1919
Re-drew German boundaries, giving land to other countries
Took all colonies away from Germany
Reduced Germany’s military forces
Blamed Germany for WWI
Imposed financial obligations on Germany
Germany signed under protest

5. Post-WWI Treaty enforced strictly at first But then, Great Depression
Countries could no longer afford to watch Germany
Germany couldn’t pay debts
Enter, Hitler

6. Fascism Rises in Europe
Fascism: A militant political movement emphasizing loyalty to the state & obedience to a leader
Leader has complete authority
Sometimes emphasizes the greater importance of an ethnic group

7. Fascism Rises in Europe
Totalitarian Rule: Government that exerts total control over a nation
Dictator: a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force

8. Italy - Mussolini 1922: Took complete control of Italy -“Il Duce”
His goal: create a new Roman Empire
Organized gangs of “Blackshirts”
Suspended elections & declared dictatorship

9. Russia - Stalin Stalin had been gathering power in Russia
Made Russia into an industrial power
Controlled Russia almost entirely through fear

10. Japan - Hirohito
Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, also began gathering power before WWII
Japan had also been launching invasions of China, trying to gain more land
1937 Japan begins all-out brutal invasion of China
Condemned by world powers
“Rape of Nanking” – 100,000 civilians put to death or brutalized

11. Germany - Hitler
1923: Hitler tries to overthrow the government, but fails.
While in prison, he wrote Mein Kampf
Blamed Jews, proposed building stronger military and expanding German borders
A powerful & spellbinding speaker, attracted Germans desperate for change
Promised the disenchanted a better life & a new and glorious Germany
1932: Hitler becomes Chancellor