1. World War II
Chapters 24 and 25

2. Rise of the Dictators Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union (Russia)
Totalitarianism – government has total control over its people. (communism)
Benito Mussolini – Italy
Fascism – nationalism where the interests of the country are above the people
Adolf Hitler – Germany
Nazism – the German brand of Fascism
National Socialist German Workers Party
Militarism in Japan

3. Dictators
Hitler Stalin Mussolini

4. Hitler’s Ideas Mein Kampf – Hitler’s book
Racial Purification – “Aryan Race”
Primarily blonde hair, blue eyes
All other races should serve the aryans
Anti-Semitism – hatred of the Jews
Took power, got rid of democracy
“Third Reich”
Preyed on the poor economy

5. America Stays Out
Neutrality Acts
Isolationism

6. War Begins 1931 – Japan Invades China (Manchuria)
1935 – Italy invades Ethiopia
1939 – Germany invades Poland
Blitzkrieg – lightning war
Nonaggression Pact with Soviets
Take over of Austria and Czechoslovakia

10. Fall of France Germany Invades Belgium to have a safe route to France
Maginot Line – boarder between Ger. And Fr.
1940 – France fell to the control of Germany
Many French soldiers escaped to Britain

12. Battle of Britain
Summer of 1940 – German Luftwaffe (air force) bombed Great Britain night after night for 2 months
Going after bases, factories and cities
Winston Churchill
Inspired people to never give up
Royal Air Force fights of Germans, cities destroyed