1. UNIT I: THE TOTALITARIAN WORLD OF THE 1930’S
LESSON #1-3

2. THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did the Second World War Happen
THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did the Second World War Happen? Could it have been prevented?
Learning Targets:
1. Students can describe how the end of the First World War and Economic Depression contributed to the rise of Totalitarian Dictatorships.
2. Students understand what Fascism and Bolshevism are and can explain their belief systems and goals.
3. Students understand what Isolationism and Appeasement are and how they allowed demagogues to come to power.
4. Students can explain how distribution of Economic Resources contributed to the Japanese decision to go to war with the United States.
5. Student can compare and contrast the long term and immediate causes of the Second World War.

3. UNIT I: LESSON #1 Lessons Unlearned

4. Lesson #I: Lessons Unlearned
A World Exhausted
A. The Aftermath of the Great War (WWI)
November 11, 1918
Nations Collapse

6. I: Lessons Unlearned I. A World Exhausted (cont’d)
B. Imperialism is alive and well: Greed and Subjugation.
1. The Treaty of Versailles
2. The Concept of Self Determination
3. The Winners Redraw the Maps
4. The League of Nations

7. VERSAILLES

8. I: Lessons Unlearned

9. CHOPPING UP THE LOSERS

10. I: Lessons Unlearned I: A World Exhausted (cont’d)
C. Communism: Society Unraveled.
Russia had dropped out of the war.
2. Communism spreads to other countries.

11. I: Lessons Unlearned I. A World Exhausted (cont’d)
D. The World Depression
1. Germany is swept into depression.
2. European depression made worse by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 in the USA

12. Postwar Germany

13. I: Lessons Unlearned E. The Spanish Influenza 1. 20 to 40 million
2. 675,000 Americans.
3. Of all American casualties of the war 50 percent were Influenza.

14. HOMEWORK QUESTIONS HANDOUT #1
(4) What are the four determining factors which led to the crisis known as the Second World War?
(4) How did the League of Nations react to Depression and destabilization (examples).
(4) Why was Fascism seen as an appealing alternative to Democracy in the 1920’s and 1930’s?

15. HOMEWORK QUESTIONS
4. (4) Please list some (Four) aspects or characteristics of a Fascist state that would explain its beliefs.
5. (4) Which country was the first to become Fascist, when and under what demagogue?
6. (4) Who adapted Fascism to Germany and in what year?