How did the Treaty of Versailles help lead to WWII?

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27-1: The Gathering Storm

Meet the Leaders

-Joseph Stalin took control after the Russian Revolution

and ruled Russia as a Totalitarian State.

-A single party controls the government and every aspect of

people’s lives.

-Used brutal methods to modernize Soviet industry and

agriculture- Communist style of

government

- Government owns all property and means of production.

Everyone is “equal.”

-May have killed an estimated 30 million people

SOVIET UNION- STALIN

-Represented U.S. Democracy

-Wanted to keep U.S. isolationist-minimal involvement in foreign

affairs

-In 1935 Congress passed the Neutrality Act

-banned arms sales or loans to countries at war.

-He got rid of the Roosevelt Corollary (Teddy)

-wanted to repair relationship with Latin America

UNITED STATES- FDR

- Prime Minister of Great Britain

- Constitutional Monarchy- Prime Minister along with a

Parliament are leaders. (similar to President &

Congress)

- Monarchy is just a ceremonial figurehead position with no

decision making power

- Considered one of the greatest leaders and speakers of the 20th

century

GREAT BRITAIN- WINSTON CHURCHILL

-Benito Mussolini used a fascist style of government

-Fascism- govt, rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism,

and blind loyalty to the state-Once Mussolini came to power he outlawed all political parties but

his own-He outlawed criticism of the

government

-Extremely brutal and violent

-Struck fear into followers

ITALY- MUSSOLINI

-Adolf Hitler turned the National Socialist German

Worker’s Party into the Nazi party.

-Brought them to power-Used anger from the Treaty of Versailles to gain support-When he became dictator of

Germany, he turned them into a fascists state

-Militaristic totalitarian state

GERMANY- HITLER

-Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s

misfortune-Used propaganda to

“brainwash” the people.-Most Jews in Germany

were rounded up and put into concentration

camps.

HITLER CONTINUED…

-Japan was ruled by a figurehead Emperor Hirohito.

- No actual decision making power

-They were taken over by General Hideki Tojo

-Japan believed they were a superior race to all other races.

-Also still angry about Treaty of Versailles

-Started a war with China-Set out to take over the Asian

world and beyond

JAPAN- TOJO & HIROHITO