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Sit in a desk, not on a desk
Get some work out for another class and
work on it
No cell phones should be out, you can listen
to music with headphones only! This goes for
you too Colby
Absolutely under now circumstances should
there be any food out
Absolutely NO Food
is Allowed
If you have food put it
up or throw it away
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Triple Entente –
Great Britain,
France, Russia
Triple Alliance –
Austria-Hungary,
Germany,
Ottoman Empire
Armistice signed
on November 11,
1918
 Fighting stops
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A result of the Russian Revolution of 1917
 Russia becomes a communist country
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Americans were afraid communism would spread
to the US
Communism
 a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating
class war and leading to a society in which all property
is publicly owned and each person works and is paid
according to their abilities and needs.
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Bomb plots
Many innocent people arrested
 1st 5 points suggested ways future wars could
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be avoided
14th point called for a League of Nations
 Congress did not want the US in the League
because it could easily pull the US into wars in
Europe
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Presented to Germany in May 1919
 Forced to sign or France was going to invade
Germany until they did
 Germany was given the blame of the war
▪ War Guilt Clause
 Germany had to pay reparations
▪ $33 Billion – Germany could not afford
 Germany had to disarm their military
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League of Nations included
 The US does not join
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Humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles
Adolf Hitler threatens to fight again
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Adolf Hitler come to power
 Nazi party
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Germany begins rearming the military
Germany begin reclaiming land lost in the
Treaty of Versailles
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Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
Surprise attack
US officially enters WWII the next day
On Edmodo
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What three things did Germany have to do
after the Treaty of Versailles?
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Presented to Germany in May 1919
 Forced to sign or France was going to invade
Germany until they did
 Germany was given the blame of the war
▪ War Guilt Clause
 Germany had to pay reparations
▪ $33 Billion – Germany could not afford
 Germany had to disarm their military
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League of Nations included
 The US does not join
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Born in Austria-Hungary April 20th, 1889
4th of 6 children
Moved to Germany when he was 3
Wanted to be a painter but was rejected
twice by Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts
 1907,1908 “unfitness of painting”
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Moved to Munich in 1913
 Did not want to serve in the Austro-Hungarian
Imperial Army
▪ “because of the mix of races in its army”
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Joins the Bavarian Army as an Austrian
Civilian
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Had always been prejudice towards religion and
racist
 Murderous and anti-Semitic after the Triple Alliance
were defeated in WWI
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Returns to Munich after WWI and appointed to be
an intelligence agent in the German Worker’s
Party (DPA) (undercover agent)
 Meets Anton Drexler and Dietrich Eckart
▪ Founders, anti-Semitic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, strong
active gov’t, non-Jewish
 Invited to join the Party and became the 55th member
in 1919
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Discharged from the army on March 31, 1920 and
begins working full time with the German Worker’s
Party
 Changes name to the National Socialist German Worker’s
Party aka the Nazi Party
 Hitler designs the party’s flag – red, white circle, black
swastika
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February 1921 – gives his first speech, 6k people
 Against the Treaty of Versailles, rival politicians, against
Marxism and Jews
 Seen as a future prominent political leader in Germany
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Hitler and Drexler have an argument and Hitler
leaves the Nazi Party in June 1921
 Agrees to return in July if he is made the chairman
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Beer Hall Speeches
 Hitler would give speeches across Germany in beer halls
▪ Blamed Jews for economic hardships – scapegoats
▪ Told of his displeasure of German losing WWI
▪ Great and powerful speaker
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Nazi Party was using Italian Fascism as their model
Hitler wanted his own “March on Rome”
Enlist the help of WWI General Ludendorff
November 8, 1923 – Hitler storms into a meeting
of 3K and declares the National Revolution had
begun
Hitler was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in
prison
 Only serves a little over a year – pardoned
 Wrote Mein Kampf
▪ Laid out his plan to transform Germany into a 1 race society
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After being released from prison he agrees to only
seek political power through democratic elections
Renounced his Austrian citizenship to run for office
in Germany
 Could not run for any office until 1932
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Loses two election in 1932 but no majority
government is formed
 Appointed Chancellor in November
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“Brownshirts”– Hitler’s private army
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used fear tactics to eliminate opposition
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Used speeches and propaganda to
gain support
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Nazi Party gains votes in Reichtag
(German Legislature):
 1930 = 18% of vote
 1932 = 37% of vote
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Hitler appointed Chancellor (Prime
Minister) in 1933
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“Reichstag fire” - blamed on
communists
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Ended democracy in Germany
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Ignored the TOV
 Rebuilt Army & Opened Weapons
Factories
 Stopped reparations payments
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Economy improved
 New Jobs - military sector
 Decreased unemployment
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Eliminated political opposition
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Began planning for expansion of the
Third Reich (Third Empire)
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Hitler’s belief that Aryan
German’s were the “Master
Race” – blond hair, blue eyes,
strong and disciplined
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Blamed Germany’s problems on
the Jewish
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Racism and propaganda used to
create distrust and hatred
against Jews and non-Aryans.
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1935 Nuremburg Laws
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Stripped Jews of Citizenship
Can’t Hold Public Office
Barred From Schools
Boycott Jewish Businesses
Banned non-Jews from
marriage to Jews
1938 Kristallnacht
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Jews attacked on streets
Jewish businesses vandalized
Burned Synagogues
Many Jews shot or sent to
prison camps
What did the people
want?
What did Hitler Offer?
2. Name and explain three ways Hitler gained control of Germany
3. Name 3 problems Germany had after WWI
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460,000 Soldiers killed
Heavy debt
Dissatisfaction with TOV - Britain and France
didn’t give Italy the land they promised in the
Treaty of London
Governments were coalitions that couldn’t
make decisions
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Value of lira declined
Price of bread rose
Shortage of Coal
Rising unemployment
let to unrest in cities
Peasants seize lands
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Promises to solve Italy’s problems
Something for everyone:
 Nationalists – recreate the Roman
Empire
 Landowners – protect private
property
 Workers – full unemployment
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Blackshirts
 Mussolin’s Followers
 Used Force to gain power
“Either the government
will be given to us or we
shall seize it by marching
on Rome”
 20,000 Blackshirts in a
planned Coup d’etat
 King Victor Emmanuel
fears Civil War - names
Mussolini Prime Minister
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Solved Unemployment
Problem
Restored Patriotism and
Nationalism
Recaptured Italy’s
Greatness
“Made the Trains Run on
Time
Limited Individual
Freedoms
Weak Constitutional Monarchy
Conflicts with west over
immigration policies and
TOV/LON
 Population Explosion
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 35M to 60 M
 Need land for farming and living
space
Industrial Revolution = need for
more raw materials
 Economic Problems due to Great
Depression
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Civilian government had
no control over military
Militarism influenced all
aspects of society
Military gradually gains
control of the government
▪ Hirohito figurehead
▪ Tojo as Military General and
Leader of Japan
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Solve Countries Problems
through foreign expansion
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Pacific empire rich in raw
materials and living space
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Begin in 1931 – Invasion of
Manchuria
1931 Attack on Manchuria
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What problems did Japan have after WWI?
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Which group in Japan gained political power
after WWI?