1. Topic: Causes of World War II (ELP)
Essential Question:
How could World War II have been prevented?

2. Causes of World War II
The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Officially ended World War One
Severely punished Germany

3. Officially ended World War One
Severely punished Germany
BRAT
Blame
Reparations

4. BRAT
Blame
Reparations
Arms
Territory

5. Arms
Territory
Created the League of Nations
International peacekeeping organization
Purpose was to prevent another world war

6. 10-2-2 #1 International peacekeeping organization
Purpose was to prevent another world war #1
Discuss
Treaty of Versailles
BRAT
League of Nations
How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause WW2?

7. International peacekeeping organization
Purpose was to prevent another world war
Worldwide economic depression

8. Purpose was to prevent another world war
Worldwide economic depression
Totalitarianism
Government has total control over the people
Powerful totalitarian governments after World War One:

9. Government has total control over the people
Totalitarianism
Government has total control over the people
Powerful totalitarian governments after World War One:
Soviet Union (USSR/Russia)
Bolshevik Revolution established a communist government (1917)
Lenin
Stalin

10. Soviet Union (USSR/Russia)
Bolshevik Revolution established a communist government (1917)
Japan
Established a militaristic government (1926)
Hirohito

11. Japan
Established a militaristic government (1926)
Italy
Mussolini established a fascist government (1922)
Extreme nationalism

12. Mussolini established a fascist government (1922)
Extreme nationalism
Germany
Hitler established the Nazi government (1933)
Form of fascism

13. 10-2-2 #2 Hitler established the Nazi government (1933)
Form of fascism #2
Discuss
Worldwide depression
Totalitarianism (definition)
Totalitarianism in:
USSR
Japan
Italy
Germany
Describe how one of the following helped cause WW2:
Depression
Totalitarianism

14. Hitler established the Nazi government (1933)
Form of fascism
Imperialism
When a stronger nation dominates a weaker nation
Japan
Invaded Manchuria (1931)

15. Japan
Invaded Manchuria (1931)
Invaded China (1937)

16. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

17. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

18. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

19. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

20. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

21. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

22. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

23. Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”

24. Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”
Invaded China (1937)
Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the “Rape of Nanking”
Italy
Invaded Ethiopia (1935)
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia—speech to League of Nations

25. Italy
Invaded Ethiopia (1935)
Germany
Moved troops into the Rhineland (1936)

26. Germany
Moved troops into the Rhineland (1936)
Invaded Austria (1938)

27. Moved troops into the Rhineland (1936)
Invaded Austria (1938)
Invaded Czechoslovakia ( )

28. Invaded Czechoslovakia (1939) Appeasement British and French policy
Invaded Austria (1938)
Invaded Czechoslovakia (1939)
Appeasement
British and French policy
Hoped to avoid war by giving in to Hitler
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

29. British and French policy
Hoped to avoid war by giving in to Hitler
Enabled Germany to easily conquer its weaker neighbors

30. Hoped to avoid war by giving in to Hitler
Enabled Germany to easily conquer its weaker neighbors

31. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Hoped to avoid war by giving in to Hitler
Enabled Germany to easily conquer its weaker neighbors
Isolationism
The U.S. refused to join the League of Nations
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Woodrow Wilson

32. Isolationism
The U.S. refused to join the League of Nations
The U.S. did little to stop Japanese, Italian, and German aggression

33. 10-2-2 #3 The U.S. refused to join the League of Nations
The U.S. did little to stop Japanese, Italian, and German aggression #3
Discuss
Imperialism in:
Japan
Italy
Germany
Appeasement
US Isolationism
Describe how one of the following helped cause WW2:
Imperialism
Isolationism

34. The U.S. refused to join the League of Nations
The U.S. did little to stop Japanese, Italian, and German aggression
World War II Participants
Axis Powers
Germany
Italy
Japan
Romania
Thailand

35. Soviet Union (joined in 1941) United States (joined in 1941)
Germany
Italy
Japan
Allies
Britain
France
Soviet Union (joined in 1941)
United States (joined in 1941)
China
Canada
Australia

36. Soviet Union (joined in 1941) United States (joined in 1941)
Dots indicate territories conquered by Axis Powers during the war

37. Soviet Union (joined in 1941)
United States (joined in 1941)
World leaders
Italy
Benito Mussolini
“Il Duce”

38. Italy
Benito Mussolini
“Il Duce”
Japan
Hirohito (emperor)
Hideki Tojo (prime minister, general)
Isoroku Yamamoto (navy)

39. Hideki Tojo (prime minister, general)
Isoroku Yamamoto (navy)
Germany
Adolf Hitler
“Der Fuehrer”

40. Germany
Adolf Hitler
“Der Fuehrer”
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin

41. Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill (replaced Chamberlain in 1940)

42. Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill (replaced Chamberlain in 1940)
France
Charles de Gaulle

43. France
Charles de Gaulle
American leaders
Political leaders
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Harry S Truman (replaced Roosevelt in 1945)

44. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Harry S Truman (replaced Roosevelt in 1945)
Military leaders
European Theater
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (supreme commander)

45. European Theater
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (supreme commander)
General George S. Patton

46. General George S. Patton
Pacific Theater
Admiral Chester Nimitz (navy)
General Douglas MacArthur (army)

47. 10-2-2 #4 Admiral Chester Nimitz (navy)
General Douglas MacArthur (army) #4
“If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. … It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Speech to the League of Nations,
Discuss:
According to Haile Selassie, who should stop the aggressors?
According to Haile Selassie, what would happen if the aggressors were not stopped?
Explain how Haile Selassie was right.