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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II. LEGACY OF WORLD WAR I. HORRORS OF WWI TREATY OF VERSAILLES GERMAN ECONOMIC PROBLEMS WAR DEBTS. HORRORS OF WORLD WAR I. TREATY OF VERSAILLES ISSUES TO BE SETTLED ----------------------------------------- TERRITORIAL ADJUSTMENTS REPARATIONS ARMAMENT RESTRICTIONS

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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II

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  1. CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II

  2. LEGACY OF WORLD WAR I • HORRORS OF WWI • TREATY OF VERSAILLES • GERMAN ECONOMIC PROBLEMS • WAR DEBTS

  3. HORRORS OF WORLD WAR I

  4. TREATY OF VERSAILLES • ISSUES TO BE SETTLED • ----------------------------------------- • TERRITORIAL ADJUSTMENTS • REPARATIONS • ARMAMENT RESTRICTIONS • WAR GUILT • LEAGUE OF NATIONS

  5. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, EUROPE 1914 1919

  6. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, GERMANY

  7. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, REPARATIONS

  8. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, GERMAN ARMAMENT LIMITATIONS

  9. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, GERMAN WAR GUILT

  10. 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

  11. FRENCH TROOPS ENTERING GERMAN RUHR, 1923

  12. RISE OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES • ITALY • GERMANY • JAPAN

  13. 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.

  14. Dictators and Wars

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  18. AXIS POWERS

  19. FASCISM WOULD BRING DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND TORTURE TO MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD

  20. AXIS POWER: ITALY

  21. MUSSOLINI AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS POWER

  22. MUSSOLINI AND MISTRESS MURDERED BY THE ITALIAN PEOPLE, 1945

  23. AXIS POWER: GERMANY

  24. GERMANY, 1933

  25. 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.

  26. WHY WAS HITLER SUCCESSFUL IN TAKING OVER GERMANY?

  27. HITLER AS A SOLDIER IN WW1

  28. HITLER ADDRESSING AN EARLY NAZI PARTY GATHERING

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

  30. NAZI PROPAGANDA DEPICTING THE IDEAL ARYAN MEMBER OF THE MASTER RACE NAZI PROPAGANDA DEPICTING THE IDEAL GERMAN ARYAN

  31. EXAMPLES OF NAZI ANTISEMITISM FINAL SOLUTION TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM

  32. HITLER ELECTED CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY 1933

  33. VOLKSWAGEN: A CAR FOR ALMOST EVERY GERMAN FAMILY

  34. PAGES FROM MEIN KAMPF

  35. AXIS POWER: JAPAN

  36. MILITARISTS TOOK OVER JAPANESE GOVERNMENT

  37. JAPANESE TROOPS INVADING MANCHURIA, 1931 HITLER CLOSELY WATCHED THE WORLD’S INACTION TO JAPAN’S INVASION

  38. CHINESE BABY BURNED AFTER JAPANESE BOMBERS STRIKE SHANGHAI IN 1937

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