1. Interwar years World History Bell ringers
Take notes on 6 of 7 for your 1st assignment

2. 1. The Armenian Genocide 1915
As the Ottoman Empire falls apart during World War I, residents of Armenia or ethnic Armenians were systematically arrested, deported from their homelands and killed because of their ethnicity.
*The term genocide was not coined until The Armenian is the first genocide of the last century and unfortunately, not the last.
*The Armenian atrocities are the 2nd most studied genocide in history.
*Turkey still does not acknowledge the genocide.
*1-1.5 million people were rounded up, taken to the Syrian Desert or location/detention centers, and killed.

5. 2Rise of Benito Mussolini
Italian

6. Fascism-originated with Mussolini and Italy 1919-1921.
1. Powerful nationalism. One political party-”Totalitarian”
2. Disdain for human rights. State above individuals
3. Anti communist and anti democracy
4. Military supremacy
5. Controlled Mass media
6. “Cult of Personality” around leader

7. 3 Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism
Born in Austria 1889, Moved to Germany at age of 3.
Went to technical school, drops out, fails art school entry
WWI soldier. Germany loses WWI and forms Weimar Republic
Nazi party forms 1920
1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Fails and leaders arrested
Hitler writes Mein Kampf (my Struggle) in prison about the T of V, anti-Semitism, anti- internationalism

8. 1930

9. 1925-1930 Nazi Party increases in popularity power 1931-1933 Elections
Nazi Party increases in popularity power Elections. Hitler Appointed Chancellor in 1933 by Von Hindenburg

10. Night of the Long Knives
1934 Night of the Long Knives—Operation Hummingbird Further consolidation of power, elimination of rivals Herman Goring and Heinrich Himmler, Ernest Rohm and the SA do not. The SS (Hitler’s personal guard) murders those opposing Hitler within the NAZI party.

11. 4. Rise of Joseph Stalin 1930’s
Born in Georgia 1879
1917 Bolshevik Revolution
Vladimir Lenin 1st leader of Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin 2nd leader of Soviet Union

13. 5 Hideki Tojo
Japanese Education minister-emphasized military and totalitarian policies in government
Lead the military invasion of Manchuria
Military General and Prime Minister of Japan during WWII
Ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor
After war he was arrested and put to death for war crimes

14. 6. Pablo Picasso and the Lost generation
After WWI, artists had a grim and different outlook on life since an entire generation of young men were killed.
Ernest Hemingway
F Scott Fitzgerald
Pablo Picasso
Gertrude Stein named them
the “Lost” generation.

15. 7/ Causes of WWII