Warm ups 4.26.2017*What were two of the effects of WWI?

*What was the League of Nations?

Lesson Objective:

*explain at least two causes of WWII

Causes of WWII*many causes of World War 2 were from unresolved issues during World War 1……

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED!

Causes of WWII*too extreme of punishments for losing countries of WWI

*appeasement (appeasement means giving people what they want)

*failures of the League of Nations

Causes of WWII Explained*Too harsh of a punishment for countries that lost WWI

reparations: money paid to cover damage or injury inflicted during war (Germany made its final payment from WWI in 2010)

Causes of WWII Explained

*How do you think these reparations could have helped lead to WWII?

Causes of WWII Explainedappeasement: is to give someone what they want

*Hitler began breaking the Treaty of Versailles, and nobody tried to stop him

*they thought if they gave him these little things that he wanted, he would be happy and war could be avoided

Causes of WWII Explained

*How do you think this policy of appeasement could have helped lead to WWII?

Causes of WWII Explained*Failure of the League of Nations

*many countries did not join the LON, so they were not bound to follow its decisions

*also, it had no power to enforce its decisions, and other countries took advantage of that

Fighting Begins*Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to split up territory in Eastern Europe

*Germany eventually became greedy, and invaded Soviet territory

Role of the U.S. in the Beginning*What do you think the position of the United States was in the beginning?

*Why would we have taken that position?

Why we did not want to be involved*117,000 U.S. citizens and soldiers died in World War I

*Our country sank into the Great Depression after World War I

Great Depression

*a global economic depression

*the U.S. economy crashed, and many people lost their jobs

Unemployment During the Great Depression