The build up to WWII Do you remember the problems with the Treaty of Versailles?
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The build up to WWII
Do you remember the problems with the Treaty of Versailles?
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The other guys had very different ideas about the future of Europe…
– Set new boundaries - Established nine new nations, carved ottoman empire into four areas (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) given to GB and France as colonies...
– Demilitarizing Germany – decreased German military and gave colonies to France
– Reparations: Germany must pay war damages– War-guilt clause: forced Germany to acknowledge that
it alone was responsible for WWI
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Flaws of Treaty lead to WWII…
• Germany is humiliated and mad…
• Russia felt ignored and determined to regain power
• Ignored claims of colonized people for self-determination
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Stalin seizes control of the Soviet Union
• Joseph Stalin wanted to create a model Communist state– To do so he began an
agricultural and industrial restructuring that trampled the rights of his people.
– Great Purge 1934-1938: responsible for deaths of 8 to 13 million people, millions more died in famines caused by restructuring
– Established totalitarian government – one that maintains complete control over citizens.
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Mussolini rises to power in Italy
• Benito Mussolini (il duce) established a fascist government – strong centralized government headed by a powerful dictator– Fascism rooted in nationalism,
dreams of Italy as great world power!
– Created a very efficient state by crushing all opposition through totalitarian rule
– New Government formed by 1922
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Nazis take over Germany• Rises to power after WWI as he
becomes führer of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis)
• Nazism based on extreme Nationalism – Dreams of Great German Empire which would be ruled by German speaking Aryans
• Great Depression helps Hitler rise to power, becomes chancellor (prime minister) in 1933– Quickly dismantles democratic
Weimer Republic and establishes Third Reich
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Holocaust• In 1935 Nuremberg Laws, 1935,
strip Jews of civil rights and property, Jews forced to wear bright yellow star
• Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938• Jews flee Germany
– 40,000 to France, Britain admits 500 refugees a week – unwilling to admit more….
– 60,000 refugees fled to US, but immigration laws not relaxed
• St Louis – German luxury liner sent away despite 900 of 943 passengers had landing permits, ¼ of passengers survived the holocaust.
• “Final Solution” adopted in 1939 - Genocide
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Militarists Gain Control in Japan
• Military Leaders beginning gaining control and share Hitler’s dream of more “living space” for their growing population.
• Launched surprise invasion of Manchuria province in China, 1931
• League of Nations condemns Japan, Japan quits the League
• Militarists firmly in control after successful invasion.
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America’s Position?
• Isolationists vs Interventionists…