In 29/6/1919,

Lloyd George of England, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France & Woodrow Wilson from the US met to discuss how Germany was to be made to pay for the damage world war one had caused.

War Guilt Clause - Germany should accept the blame for starting World War One

Ok…

Reparations - Germany had to pay £6,600 million for the damage caused by the war

Alright…

Disarmament - Germany was only allowed to have a small army and six naval ships. No tanks, no air force and no submarines were allowed. The Rhineland area was to be de-militarised.

Fine…

Territorial Clauses - Land was taken away from Germany and given to other countries. Anschluss (union with Austria) was forbidden.

Yes…

• Unhappy about the treaty • Could not afford to pay the money $$$• Voted to power a man who promised to rip up

the Treaty of Versailles.

• I am Adolf Hitler.

Dominate Europe and the World

“LET’S BE ALLIES”

• Mussolini wanted a Fascist-Roman empire in the Mediterranean and Africa

• Japan wanted a Nipponese empire in the Pacific, extending into China and Australia

• USA – Isolated…• France – Unlikely to intervene against

Germany, because she could not rely on Britain’s and America’s support.

• Britain – Between 1934 and 1937, Britain was sympathetic to German recovery. Between May 1937 and March 1939, Britain appeased Germany.

The number of people who lost their lives during the war was in millions, and the number of

people who were left homeless was manifold larger than that.

• Rosie became the symbol for working women• Woman wore overalls and operated heavy

machinery, just as any man would

• By the end of the war, one third of the work force contained women

Ended discrimination against African Americans

AT FIRST

NO AFRICAN AMERICANS

WORKING IN MY STORE! OUT!

AFTER WHITE MEN WENT INTO WAR

Work in my store?!

AFTER…

Excellent work! Thanks a lot.

Created Neutrality Acts to keep us out of war. The country suffered enough from World

War I and was not yet ready for another war.

How could the Japanese attack

our Pearl Habour!

We are the most powerful force in the war. On August 6th, one bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan,

killing about seventy thousand civilians. Still the Japanese did not

surrender. On August 9th, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki leading to the defeat of the Axis

Powers.

All across the United States, Americans celebrated the end of the war. Many

other nations were left in debt or crippled by the bombings and attacks.

The countries were counting the costs of war. We came out of the war on top.

Not only did we defeat the Axis powers, we unleashed the most powerful force

on the planet.

• Basically, most of the literary works after world war 2 are about the society being united, regardless of race and religion, it was also a way to urge people to maintain peace of the world.

• Writers have long drawn on the experiences of war to examine themes such as race, power, democracy, and human behaviour under conditions of stress.

• Written by John Steinback in 1942• A propaganda novella which details a military

occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia

• Written in year 1944 by John Hersey• Winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.• It tells the story of an Italian-American officer

in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels.

• Written in year 2000 by James Bradley• The book follows the lives of the six flag-

raisers through their early lives of innocence, military training, fierce combat and afterward, when they were sent on tours to raise money for war bonds.

• High Flight (1941) by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (US pilot flying with a Canadian Spitfire squadron during the Battle of Britain).

• High Flight • Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split clouds - and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring thereI've chased the shouting wind along, and flungMy eager craft through footless halls of air.Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,I've topped the windswept heights with easy graceWhere never lark, or even eagle flew -And, while with silent lifting mind I've trodThe high untresspassed sanctity of space,Put out my hand and touched the face of God.