1. WWII

2. The Axis Powers

3. Germany
Adolf Hitler

4. Japan
Hideki Tojo

5. Italy
Benito Mussolini

6. The Allies

7. United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman

8. Great Britain
Winston Churchill

9. Russia
Josef Stalin

10. So why does Europe go to war?
ONE
Worldwide Depression
TWO
High war debt owed by Germany
THREE
High inflation
FOUR
Massive Unemployment

11. Fascism was rising.
Fascism is a political system based on racism and nationalism where a dictator has all the power and people’s freedoms are denied.

12. So when did it start? The year was 1939.
Hitler (what was the country?) and Stalin (What was the country?) invaded Poland.

13. But what is important here is…WHAT DID WE DO?
Well, we started out by not getting involved at all. What is that word to stay by yourself and not get involved in foreign affairs?

14. But then... We are good friends with who?????
We can’t leave them to fight themselves but we still don’t want to fight. Soooooo…
WE SEND THEM ECONOMIC AID (MONEY).

15. WELL FINALLY SOMETHING HAPPENS THAT MAKES US HAVE TO GO TO WAR!
NOW THINK!
What has happened in the past to make us go to war?

16. PEARL HARBOR!
JAPAN SUNK MORE THAN ONE SHIP!

17. NOW WE WERE INVOLVED!

18. Appeasement
Making someone/country happy by giving them something to avoid attack/invasion.
Totalitarian State-A country that has total control of its people.