1. THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II
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2. MILITARISM German rearmament
French failed Maginot line: did not realize Hitler would outflank and go through ‘Low countries’ again. (Belgium, Luxembourg)
New weapons and techniques of warfare (as tested in Spain) made nations, particularly Germany, confident of an easy victory.
Japanese Naval build-up after ‘35

7. ALLIANCES AXIS ALLIES vs The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1939.
Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact, 1939.
French alliance with Britain, 1938, and with Little Entente countries, and with Poland.

10. IMPERIALISM
Japan’s conquest of Manchuria in 1931 & the attack on China in 1937.
Italian conquest of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) in 1936.
German annexation of Austria, Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.
Desire of Germany to reacquire her lost colonies, and Italy to gain what she was denied at Versailles.

11. NATIONALISM Nazi Germany’s resentment of Treaty of Versailles.
Italian Fascist desire to play the role of Great Power.
Japan’s doctrine of “ Asia for the Asiatics”.
German master race-Aryan
the Italian dream of Mare Nostrum”,
Japanese chauvinism
“war is a justifiable exercise of national sovereign power”.

12. BONUS CAUSES American neutrality legislation-isolationism
Weakness of League of Nations: membership and lack of a fighting force.
Appeasement
Anger over Treaty of Versailles: “stab in the back and war guilt clause”.
The Great Depression

13. Appeasement

19. Major Causes of World War II
Treaty of
Versailles
Rise of
fascism in
Italy
Japanese
expansionism
Economic
depression
Anti-
communism
Appeasement
Militarism
Nationalism
Hitler

20. Theaters of War: Where WWII Was Fought
Europe
Atlantic Ocean
Asia
North Africa
Pacific

21. HITLER’S WWII PARTNERS

22. THE ALLIED POWERS IN WWII
India
Brazil
These are the nations that had a substantial number of soldiers involved in the fighting.
THE ALLIED POWERS IN WWII