Axis Powers

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Objective Question How did WWII start?
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Warm-upLook at your timeline, and labelled
events if they go under one of the four main
causes of WWIM MilitarismA AlliancesI
ImperialismN Nationalism
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Axis Powers
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Causes of WWIIby the Axis Nations

• Totalitarianism- Japan ruled by military
• Germany and Italy fascist dictatorships
• Militarism
• Axis Nationalism- considered themselves to be
  superior
• Axis Imperialism- Japan expanded into China
  Italy took over Ethiopia Germany annexed Austria
  and Czechoslovakia

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Causes of WWII by the Allied Nations

• Failure by appeasement- Britain France had
  tried to appease dictators
• U.S. rejected the Treaty of Versailles
• Never joined the League of Nations
• Failure of Collective Security- none of the
  democratic nations coordinated their military
  effort to act together against the aggressive
  axis nations
• America was neutral- U.S. prohibited loans and
  sale of war materials
• Which helped axis nations take power over their
  ill-equipped victims

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"We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man
who will once again let loose upon the world
another war in which civilization will
irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down
in history as the man who restored honour and
peace of mind to the Great Germanic
nation.Winston Churchill1935
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U.S. Enters WWII

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• Objective Question What made the U.S. change its
  mind about neutrality?
• HW Finish cause and effect map due Wednesday.

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Hitler and Stalin
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Germany takes over Soviet Union
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September 3, 1939 - Britain and France declare
war on Germany after Germany takes Poland
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German soldiers take Paris

• June 22, 1940 - France surrenders with following
  terms
• Germans would occupy Northern part of France
• Southern France would be run by a Nazi-controlled
  puppet government
• Poem time

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Frenchmen Crying
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France Surrenders
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U.S. Involvement

• U.S. claimed neutrality
• Roosevelt wanted to aid Britain in the war effort
• December 7, 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

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1943Hitlers Dream of World Conquest Threatened
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
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