1. WWI-WWII Ch. 26-29 main points

2. WWI
Causes: Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism, Secret Alliances
Total War: ALL resources going toward war
Sides: Allies vs. Central powers
Russia, France, Britain VS Germany, Austria, Italy
Turning Point = US entering the war in 1917
Reds (Vladimir Lenin; Bolsheviks) VS Whites (army leaders)
Paris Peace Conference = Mandate system
Czech & Yugo = new independent nations
US = best economic shape (Roaring Twenties)
Balfour Declaration – British supported Israel (Jewish State)
Conflict = BOTH groups claim the same homeland

3. 1920s China – Communists vs. Nationalists
Long March = Communists attempt at peasant support
Japan- Growing industrialization and Democracy
Latin America- Military dictators holding most of the power.
1920s – Roaring Twenties
Apartheid = official policy in South Africa

4. 1930s Great Depression hits the world:
Causes: Overproduction, deflation, and falling demand.
Manchuria = taken over by Japan because they need resources
Fascism = total government control that is NOT communism
Implemented by Germany and Italy
Spanish Civil War between Fascism and Communism
India--Gandhi resists British colonization through nonviolent protest
Italy, Japan, and Germany become the axis powers (1936)

5. WWII Appeasement = pleasing the enemy to avoid war
Germany annexes its neighbors
Beginning of WWII: Germany invades Poland (1939)
Soviets break pact with Germans when Germany invaded them
Allies: Britain, France, Soviet Union; Axis: Italy, Germany, Japan
Italy takes over N. Africa
Japan-Raping of Nanjing
German Nazis- Their goals-unite and purify their country- Final Solution (Holocaust).

6. WWII Pearl Harbor attack in 1941
Turning point in the war: D-Day invasion
The Big Three start to plan for the end: Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Japan refuses to surrender-atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima (1945)
Nuremburg Trials
Divide Germany into 4 zones-becomes West Germany (democracy) vs. East Germany (communism)
Eastern Europe takes on dictatorship-sympathize with USSR