1. Chapter 16 Section 1 Dictators Threaten World Peace

2. Brainstorms What were the causes of World War I? Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
System of Alliances
Assassination

3. Brainstorms
What treaty ended WWI?
Treaty of Versailles

4. Brainstorms What is the difference between an idealist and a realist?
A realist understands how the world works and deals with it
An idealist wants things to be perfect regardless of present world conditions.

5. Brainstorms What were the 14 Points?
Wilson’s idealist solution to end WWI and prevention to prevent WWII
No secret treaties
Freedom of the seas
Free trade ( no tariffs)
Disarm
Self Determination

6. Brainstorms
What major world event took place between 1929 and 1941 and what effect did it have on Europe unlike the United States?
The Great Depression
Dictators take control of European Countries during the Depression

7. Objectives:
ID the aggressive leaders and their actions at the beginning of World War I
Define fascism
Describe how the United States tried to remain neutral.

8. Joseph Stalin & Soviet Union
Political Movements and Beliefs
Focused on creating a model communist state after Lenin’s death
Agriculture & Industrial growth are the main goal
Abolished private property. Farms owned & controlled by the state
5 year plans to direct state run industry

9. Joseph Stalin & Soviet Union
Aggressive Actions Taken in the 1920s & 1930s
Government control of everything (Totalitarian government)
Killed 8 to 13 million people who opposed him
Individuals have no rights

10. Benito Mussolino ( Il Duce or Leader) & Italy
Political Movements and Beliefs
Played upon Italian fears of economic collapse & communism
Fascism: stresses nationalism and places the interests of the state above those of an individual. Need a single strong leader & devoted party members.

11. Benito Mussolino ( Il Duce or Leader) & Italy
Aggressive Actions Taken in the 1920s & 1930s
Black Shirts march on Rome & King gives power to Mussolini
Crushed all opposition
Made the trains run on time (fix the economy)
Invaded Ethiopia

12. Adolf Hitler (Der Fuhrer or the Leader) & Germany
Political Movements and Beliefs
Party leader of the Nazis or National Socialist German Worker’s Party
Nazism or fascism stressed extreme nationalism and favored uniting all German-speaking people in a great German empire
Blamed all problems on the Jews
Master Race: blue-eyed blond-hair Aryans
Expansionism or space for Germans to live

13. Adolf Hitler (Der Fuhrer or the Leader) & Germany
Aggressive Actions Taken in the 1920s & 1930s
Storm troopers or private army (brown shirts)
Pursued the Third Reich or 1000 Year Empire (Overthrew Weimar Republic)
Military build-up
Took back the Rhineland

14. Japanese Militarists Political Movements and Beliefs
Imperialism or expansionism. Space for people to live

15. Japanese Militarists Aggressive Actions Taken in the 1920s & 1930s
Invaded Manchuria ( China)

16. Francisco Franco & Spain
Political Movements and Beliefs
Franco installs Totalitarian government

17. Francisco Franco & Spain
Aggressive Actions Taken in the 1920s & 1930s
Spanish Army with general Franco rebelled against Spanish republic (Civil War)
Franco supported by Germany & Italy (Rome-Berlin Axis)
U.S. remained neutral, except for 3000 Abraham Lincoln Battalion
Soviets sent equipment & advisors

18. United States Neutrality
1928 the U.S. 1/62 signed Kellogg-Briand Pact. War will not be used as an instrument of foreign policy
The Nye Committee and the “merchants of deaths”
1933 to 1935 FDR was dealing with other countries
1933 recognized the Soviet Union
Good Neighbor Policy in LA removed U.S. soldiers
Reciprocal Trade Agreement lowered tariffs

19. United States Neutrality
●Neutrality Acts
Outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war or in civil war
U.S. sends arms and supplies to Manchuria (China) because Japan never officially declared war