1. World War II Unit 7 Lesson 1
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including
the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic
distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.

2. What you will learn Anschluss Sudetenland Appeasement Pacifism
How Europe mishandled Hitler.
Axis powers
Nazi-Soviet Pact

3. The Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
Depression
High unemployment
Inflation
Reparations

5. Friedrich Ebert: First President of the Weimar Republic

6. The German Mark

7. The German Mark

8. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]

9. Adolf Hitler Born in Austria in 1889 Failed artist
Worked for the Weimar Rep.
sent to spy on a group called the National Socialists German Workers party ( NAZI)
Tried to lead a revolt in 1923
Mein Kampf (my Struggle)

10. NAZI gain power
1928 to 1932 NAZI gain power by being voted into the German Legislature
Pres. Von Hindenburg asks Hitler to become his Chancellor
Hindenburg dies and Hitler appoints himself President and Chancellor
He rounds up any rivals to the NAZI

11. Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler test LofN
built up German military
1936 sent troops in the dmz near France
Western nations did not denounce Hitler
They APPEASED him.
adopted an appeasement policy

12. Rome-Berlin Axis, 1939
The “Pact of Steel”

13. Austria and Sudetenland
1938 Nazi propaganda worked in Austria
Hitler started the Anschluss or reunification of Austria and Germany
Hitler turned to Czechoslovakia
3 million Germans in the Sudetenland be independent
Sept The Sudetenland annexed

14. Hitler on the attack
Austria annexed: Anschluss – union of Austria and Germany. Germany takes over Austria and violates the Treaty of Versailles
Czech Crisis – Hitler Takes over the Sudetenland
Munich Conference – French and British leaders give over the area Sudetenland in Czech. Hitler promises never to expand German Territory

15. Munich Conference 1938 Prime Minister Chamberlain -GB
Hitler gets to keep the Sudetenland and Austria
as long as he promises to stop there

18. Why Appeasement? France was demoralized, could not take on Hitler
Britain did not want to confront Hitler
Some thought the Treaty of Versailles was too hard on Germany
Others thought fascism was better than the spread of communism
Most opposed war

19. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

20. Nazi Soviet Pact August 1939 nonaggression pact with Stalin
Called the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Promised to be peaceful
Privately agreed to divide Poland if they went to war
Promised to not fight each other
Sept Germany invades Poland

22. Appeasement fails to work
In takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia
F and GB promise to protect Poland
Nazi-Soviet Pact- Promise not to attack each other if war breaks out.
Both would divide up eastern Europe.

24. POLAND INVADED
Germany attacks Poland Sept Germany takes over Poland.
G.B. and F declare war on Germany.
WWII begins

25. WHAT ABOUT ITALY AND JAPAN?

26. Italy’s Path to War Overview
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Militarism put people to work building weapons
Attacked Ethiopia –

27. Benito Mussolini Fascism
Militarism put people to work building weapons
Attacked Ethiopia

28. IMPACT: ITALY AND GERMANY GET BOLD 1930S
Mussolini and Hitler took note
Mussolini: invaded Ethiopia in 1935
Ethiopian King Haile Selassie asked LofN for help
League voted sanctions on Italy
did not stop Mussolini

29. Italy Invades Ethiopia
Italy was defeated by Ethiopia in 1896
1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia again
King Haile Selassie appeals to the League of Nations – applies sanctions against Italy – basically does nothing –

31. Japan’s Path to War: An Overview
Imperialist
Created a dictatorship lead by military leadership
Manchurian Incident – Japan needed war supplies, a Japanese RxR is exploded and blamed on the Chinese. Take over Manchuria.
League of Nations condemn aggression.
Japan withdrawals for L of N.
Rape of Nanking
Made an alliance with Germany and Italy called the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

33. Japanese Aggression Japan’s goal: have an empire = to Western powers
Action: invaded Manchuria in 1931
Significant: proved the LofN was WEAK
Action: 1937 Japan invade China starting Second Sino-Japanese war
Sig: West could do NOTHING!!

34. The Japanese Invasion of China, 1937

36. Axis Powers Germany, Italy and Japan formed the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis
AKA Axis Powers
Three agreed to fight Soviet communism