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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