WORLD WAR II

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WORLD WAR II
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WORLD WAR II

• DATES 1939-1945
• (U.S. ENTERS DEC. 7, 1941)
• OPPONENTS
• AXIS POWERS GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN
• ALLIED POWERSBRITAIN, FRANCE,
  USSR(SOVIET UNION), U.S.

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CAUSES OF THE WAR

1. RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
2. MILITARISM
3. TREATY OF VERSAILLES
4. APPEASEMENT POLICY

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TOTALITARIANISM

• FASCISM
• POLITICAL SYSTEM EMPHASIZING THE LEADER,
  NATIONALISM, RACISM, AND NO TOLERANCE OF
  OPPOSITION
• MUSSOLINI - ITALY
• HITLER- GERMANY- NAZI PARTY

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JAPAN

• HIROHITO-SEEN AS SUN GOD
• TOJO- PRIME MINISTER DURING WAR
• BUILT UP GREAT IMPERIAL NAVY AND ARMY

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SOVIET UNION

• JOSEPH STALIN
• CONTROLLED COUNTRY WITH STEEL FIST
• PURGES

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TREATY OF VERSAILLES

• REPARATIONS LEFT GERMANY WEAK
• TREATY PUNISHED DIDNT SOLVE
• HITLER PLAYED ON WEAKNESS

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APPEASEMENT POLICY

• POLICY OF GIVING THINGS IN RETURN FOR PEACE
• MARCH, 1936-REARMS RHINELAND
• MARCH, 1938- OCCUPIES AUSTRIA

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MUNICH PACT

• HITLER SIGNS PACT WITH NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
• CHAMBERLAIN CLAIMS WE WILL HAVE PEACE IN OUR
  TIME

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HITLER CONTINUES

• MARCH, 1939 TAKES CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• AUGUST, 1939 SIGNS NON-AGRESSION PACT WITH SOVIET
  UNION

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WAR BEGINS

• HITLER INVADES POLAND
• BLITZKRIEG INTRODUCED-LIGHTNING WAR
• BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
• SEPTEMBER 1, 1939