1. Failure of Versailles
Lecture 1

2. Standard
Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Essential Question: How did the British policy of appeasement contribute to the eruption of WWII?

3. League of Nations No way to stop aggressor nations
the geography of Europe almost begged for war
Rhineland
Poland
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
East Prussia

4. Japan Hirohito and Imperial Japan
Japan shifted from democratic reform to military rule
wanted to become a world power
needed more resources
invaded Manchuria in 1931
invaded China in 1937
Rape of Nanjing

5. Soviet Union Stalin and the Soviet Union
tried to industrialize Russia in five-year plans
Collectivization
Terror tactics
Gulags
up to a million “traitors” were killed or sent to Siberia
Purges

6. Italy Mussolini and Italy fascist leader invaded Ethiopia in 1935
“black shirts”
outlawed political parties
seized the press
formed secret police
invaded Ethiopia in 1935
the League of Nations did nothing
“We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.” (1934)

7. Germany Hitler and Germany the Nazi Party promised a Third Reich
Blamed Germany’s problems on inferior peoples
Jews
Called for all German-speaking people to join in one nation
Time Magazine’s man of the year in 1936
Hosted the 1936 Olympics

8. German Propaganda

10. 1936 Olympic Games

11. Spain Spanish Civil War, 1936
Hitler and Mussolini sent aid to fascist Francisco Franco so he would win the war
used the war to field test their military hardware
US and Britain feared involvement would lead to war and did nothing
Spain will sit out WWII

13. Munich Pact Munich Pact, 1938
Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler in Munich
signed a treaty that Hitler would not take any more territory
appeasement or just encouraged the fascists
Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939
Mussolini seized Albania