CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II

• HORRORS OF WWI

• TREATY OF VERSAILLES

• GERMAN ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

• WAR DEBTS

HORRORS OF WORLD WAR I

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

ISSUES TO BE SETTLED

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• TERRITORIAL ADJUSTMENTS

• REPARATIONS

• ARMAMENT RESTRICTIONS

• WAR GUILT

• LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TREATY OF VERSAILLES,

EUROPE

1914 1919

TREATY OF VERSAILLES,TREATY OF VERSAILLES,GERMANYGERMANY

TREATY OF VERSAILLES, REPARATIONS

TREATY OF VERSAILLES,

GERMAN ARMAMENT LIMITATIONS

TYPE AMOUNT ALLOWED

PLANES 0

WARSHIPS 6

SOLDIERS 100,000

CONSCRIPTION BANNED

TREATY OF VERSAILLES,

GERMAN WAR GUILT

WAR DEBTS AS A CAUSE OF WORLD WAR II

•U.S. HAD LOANED ALLIES MONEY DURING WWI AND DEMANDED PAYMENT

•ALLIES NEEDED TO GET MONEY FROM GERMANY TO PAY THE U.S.

•GERMANY WAS IMPOVERISHED AS A RESULT OF WWI AND BORROWED MONEY FROM U.S. BANKS TO GIVE TO ALLIES

FRENCH TROOPS ENTERING GERMAN RUHR, 1923

• ITALY

•GERMANY

• JAPAN

Dictators and Wars

• The effects of WW I & the Great Depression touched every corner of the world. In some countries, a new kind of brutal dictatorship-the totalitarian state.

Dictators and Wars

Characteristics of a Totalitarian State

• Single party dictatorship exerting control over ALL aspects of life

• Strong charismatic leader often at the head of govt.

• State control of the economy

Characteristics of a Totalitarian State

• Use of police, spies, and terror to enforce the will of the state

• Govt. control of the media & use of propaganda to indoctrinate people

Characteristics of a Totalitarian State

• Use of schools & youth groups to spread ideology to kids

• Strict censorship of artists, intellectuals and political rivals with dissenting opinions.

AXIS POWERS

FASCISM WOULD BRING DEATH,

DESTRUCTION AND TORTURE TO

MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD

AXIS POWER:AXIS POWER:

ITALYITALY

MUSSOLINI AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER

MUSSOLINI AND MISTRESS MURDERED BY THE ITALIAN PEOPLE, 1945

AXIS AXIS POWER:POWER:

GERMANYGERMANY

GERMANY, 1933

Hitler’s GOAL

• When Hitler came to power, he vowed that Germany would rise again from the quagmire of reparations and depression that it had floundered in since WW I.

WHY WAS HITLER SUCCESSFUL IN TAKING OVER GERMANY?

HITLER AS A SOLDIER IN WW1

HITLER ADDRESSING AN EARLY NAZI PARTY GATHERING

Cover page of German editions of Mein Kampf written in 1924 while Hitler was imprisoned for staging a revolt

NAZI PROPAGA

NDA DEPICTIN

G THE IDEAL

GERMAN ARYAN

NAZI PROPAGANDA

DEPICTING THE IDEAL

ARYAN MEMBER OF THE MASTER

RACE

EXAMPLES OF NAZI ANTISEMITISM

FINAL SOLUTION TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM

HITLER ELECTED CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY 1933

VOLKSWAGEN: A CAR FOR ALMOST EVERY GERMAN FAMILY

PAGES FROM MEIN KAMPF

AXIS AXIS POWER:POWER:

JAPANJAPAN

MILITARISTS TOOK OVER JAPANESE GOVERNMENT

JAPANESE TROOPS INVADING MANCHURIA, JAPANESE TROOPS INVADING MANCHURIA, 19311931

HITLER CLOSELY WATCHED THE WORLD’S INACTION TO JAPAN’S

INVASION

CHINESE BABY BURNED AFTER JAPANESE BOMBERS STRIKE SHANGHAI IN 1937