1. Bell Work: ISN page
Draw a chart like the one below. Use textbook pages 747 – 748 to find the missing information.
Nazi Party
Fascist Party
Communist
Party
Dictator
Country

2. WWI – Treaty of Versailles
Signed June 28, 1919
Germany had to:
Pay billions of dollars in reparations
Completely disarm
Wilson did not want to punish the defeated nations. Europe wanted revenge. America’s objections to treaty: too hard on Germany, League of Nations would keep America involved in the problems of other nations. Returning to a period of isolationism.

3. WWI – Treaty of Versailles
Completely disarm
Give up overseas colonies
Give up some land in Europe
Wilson did not want to punish the defeated nations. Europe wanted revenge. America’s objections to treaty: too hard on Germany, League of Nations would keep America involved in the problems of other nations. Returning to a period of isolationism.

4. Great Depression- 1929 - 1942 Severe economic crisis
Business activity slowed sharply
Unemployment rose

6. Mussolini - Italy First dictator in Europe after WWI
Fascist – a non-democratic form of government that stresses the greatness of a race or nation
Called Il Duce – the leader

7. Outlawed all other political parties
Took away people’s rights
Stopped newspapers from reporting any news that he didn’t like

8. Built up the military and attacked other countries; Ethiopia in 1935
League of Nations mildly protested
1939 – Italy invaded Albania

9. Hitler - Germany Played on people’s emotions like Mussolini
Led the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) – believed that Germans were superior to others

10. Blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
Anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews, had many terrible results

11. Gained power in 1939 and ended democracy
Set up totalitarian rule – gets rids of all opposition and government controls every aspect of life

12. Sought to dominate other nations as well as Germany
Breaks treaty and rebuilt Germany’s military
Formed an alliance with Italy in 1936

13. Soviet Union Joseph Stalin rose to power in late 1920s
Communist leader – killed rivals and sent millions he thought were disloyal to labor camps

14. Japan Lacked jobs and food during the depression
Military leaders believed Japan needed more land and resources.

15. September, 1931 – invaded Manchuria in northeastern China
League of Nations criticized Japan but did nothing else

16. Hideki Tojo – one of the generals who led the invasion later become Prime Minister
1937 – Japanese army invaded China

17. 1940 – joins Germany and Italy in the “Axis” alliance

18. United States
Between 1935 and 1937 Congress passed the Neutrality Acts
Laws said that the US could not lend money or sell weapons to nations at war

19. United States European nations still had not paid back WWI loans
Most Americans wanted to stay out of problems in other lands