1. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What factors led to the outbreak of WWII?
Causes of WWII
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What factors led to the outbreak of WWII?

2. TEKS and Objectives We will… I will…
(2D) explain the significance of as a turning point in U.S. history
Identify the characteristics of totalitarian leaders in Europe
Summarize the causes of WWII

3. The Origins of WWII Europe Post-WWI
Effects of Great Depression reached Europe
New leaders emerged, taking TOTAL control of their country

4. Joseph Stalin Soviet Union Communism Stalin comes to power
Russian Revolution established first communist state
Communism
Government owns all property (no private ownership)
Stalin comes to power
Seized power by eliminating adversaries
Established brutal totalitarian dictatorship

5. Benito Mussolini Italy Fascism
Became anti- democratic, fascist state under Mussolini
Fascism
Extreme natinalism
the nation is more important than individuals

6. Adolf Hitler Germany Nazism Hitler’s Rule
Affected by Great Depression and Treaty of Versailles
People lost faith in democratic Weimar Republic after WWI
Nazism
Form of fascism
Racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of economy
Hitler’s Rule
Established a dictatorship
Wanted German domination of Europe

7. Causes of World War II

8. Treaty of Versailles War Guilt Clause Dictated Peace
Blamed Germany for WWI
Reparations crippled the German economy
Dictated Peace
Germans felt they were treated unfairly
Hitler promised hope and change

10. The Failure of the League of Nations
Established after WWI
Prevent another war
Collective Security
Idea that peaceful nations would ban together to stop aggressors
Failed because U.S. and Soviet Union did not join
Ineffective
Germany rebuilt military and bombed cities in Spain
Italy attacked Ethiopia
Japan invaded Manchuria and China

12. Munich Conference German Aggression Appeasement Hitler annexed Austria
Demanded Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia)
Appeasement
France and Britain agreed to give Hitler part of Czechoslovakia to avoid war
Hitler convinced France and Britain were weak

14. Germany invades Poland
Non-Aggression Pact
Secret agreement between Hitler and Stalin
Agreed to invade and divide Poland
Blitzkrieg
New type of German warfare
Consisted of rapid, coordinated movements by airplanes, tanks, and infantry
Quickly defeated Poland
WWII begins
France and Britain declared war on Germany