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How could the end of World War I have been a cause for World War II? Discuss this with a partner who sits near you and have a written answer ready. Agenda. Tests and Mid-Year Review Packets New Homework Calendar Treaty of Versailles Impact on Europe New European Leaders. Comments. Tests

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  1. How could the end of World War I have been a cause for World War II?Discuss this with a partner who sits near you and have a written answer ready.

  2. Agenda • Tests and Mid-Year Review Packets • New Homework Calendar • Treaty of Versailles • Impact on Europe • New European Leaders

  3. Comments Tests • Paragraphs! 4-5 sentences • Corrections and Make-Ups due by Friday Mid-Year Review Packets • Blanks? • Guessing • Homework Calendar

  4. How could WWI have caused WWII?

  5. Treaty of Versailles Impact on Europe:

  6. Leaders in WWII Use pages 804-809 in the textbook to complete the chart on World War II leaders.

  7. Leaders in WWII Use pages 804-809 in the textbook to complete the chart on World War II leaders. Maps Use the maps in chapter 26 of your textbook to complete the maps of Europe and the Pacific.

  8. Benito Mussolini • Preached a Fascist government • Linked to cultural superiority and racism • Nicknamed ‘Il Duce’

  9. Italy & Mussolini • Italy was hit with Great Depression • High unemployment and inflation • Mussolini knew how to appeal to wounded national pride • Played on the fears of economic collapse and Communism

  10. Mussolini • To strengthen nation, power must rest with single strong leader and small group of devoted party members • 1922 – Black shirts marched on Rome • King refused to declare Martial Law and cabinet resigned • Had the support of industrialists, landowners, and Roman Catholic Church

  11. IosifVissarionovichDzhugashvili (Yes, that’s Joseph Stalin’s Real Name…_ • Communist Leader • Controlled EVERY aspect of people’s lives • Eliminated all competition to him in order to stay in power

  12. Stalin • Responsible for the deaths of 8-13 Million people • Collectivization: Turn individual farms into larger collective farms • Stalin wanted to transform Soviet Union from backwards rural nation into a great industrial power

  13. Hideki Tojo (Japan) • Japanese Leader • Prime Minister at the time of attack on Pearl Harbor • Militaristic and Fascist • GOAL: Expand Japanese empire to get natural resources

  14. Leaders of Europe • Leaders didn’t stop Hitler. Why? • Fearful of another BLOODY war • Thought request to unite German lands reasonable • Thought Nazis would be more interested in peace once they got land

  15. Hitler’s Demands • GOAL: Unify German Speaking People • Austria • Czechoslovakia • Took moved troops into Rhineland in 1936

  16. Video

  17. Agenda • Video: Cause and Effect • Discussion on Video • U.S. and WWII

  18. Video Questions • Why did the German people let Hitler take power? • How did appeasement affect Germany? • Did appeasement work?

  19. U.S. and the War: Neutrality Lend Lease Act

  20. Why did the U.S. join the war? Be ready to listen to a video clip of Roosevelt speaking about the War. What were Roosevelt’s beliefs? Why did Roosevelt make this speech?

  21. Agenda • Roosevelt’s beliefs • Japan: The Pacific Front • Pearl Harbor • Effect of Pearl Harbor Questions: • Why did the United States abandon neutrality? • Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? • How did Pearl Harbor change the way that Americans felt about the war? About the Japanese?

  22. Japan • Military leaders gain control in early 1900s • More influential than emperor by 1930 • Want an empire How might this shift affect how the country is run? Brainstorm an idea in your notes.

  23. Japanese Aggression • 1931 take over Manchuria, China • 1937-8 Kill over 360,000 Chinese as it continues to expand in China • U.S. protests but does nothing: Why?

  24. July 1941: Japan invades French Indochina • Roosevelt demands that Japan withdraw • U.S. freezes Japanese money that is in American banks and cuts off exports to Japan • What is different this time?

  25. Strategy in attacking Pearl Harbor Destroy U.S. naval base in Pacific Give Japan time to control East Asia before the U.S. intervened

  26. Pearl Harbor2:30 • 7:55am • December 7, 1941 • Air attack • Over 2,400 Americans killed • 200 planes destroyed • Declare war the next day

  27. Impact

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