Post on 04-Jan-2016
11/03 BELLRINGER 4+ SENTENCES
As the US was recovering slowly from the effects of the
Depression, another threat loomed on the horizon in
Europe. In reaction to the rise of dictators in several
European nations, FDR addressed Congress and
identified four “essential freedoms”: speech, religion,
from want, from fear. Which of these do you think is
most important and why?
WORLD WAR TWO1935-1950
DICTATORS COME TO POWER
• Why?
• Treaty of Versailles
• World-wide Depression
• New democracies floundered
DICTATORS COME TO POWER
• Totalitarian – government that controls every aspect of
citizens lives (Soviet Union, Germany, Italy)
• Fascism – philosophy that says nation is more valuable
than the individual (Germany, Italy)
• Communism – philosophy that says everything is
publicly owned but managed by the government
(Soviet Union)
DICTATORS COME TO POWER
• The Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
• Italy – Benito Mussolini
• Germany – Adolf Hitler
• Spain – Francisco Franco
• Japan – Military dictatorship
AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS BEGIN
• 1931 - Japan invaded
Manchuria
• 1935 - Italy invaded
Ethiopia
• 1936 - Germany supports a
civil war in Spain
• 1936 – Japan invades
China
AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS BEGIN
• 1931 - Japan invaded
Manchuria
• 1935 - Italy invaded
Ethiopia
• 1936 - Germany supports a
civil war in Spain
• 1936 – Japan invades
China
Hitler is encouraged by a lack of response from the rest of
the worldRhineland (1937)
Austria (1938)
Czechoslovakia (1939)
MUNICH PACT (September 1938) – appeasement
Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia (1938)
August, 1939 – German/Soviet non-aggression pact
September 1, 1939 – Poland attacked – WWII begins
September, 1939 - June 1940, all of western Europe
Poland - the “line in the sand”
August, 1940, Battle for Britain
1941 - Germany “Wolf Packs” – submarines – begin sinking ships in the Atlantic
Germany invades the Soviet Union May, 1941
Germany broke the non-aggression pact
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