Topic:
World War II Begins
Essential Question:
How could World War II have been
prevented?
 Causes of World War II
 The Treaty of
Versailles (1919)
 Officially ended
World War One
 Severely punished
Germany
 Officially ended World War One
 Severely punished Germany
 BRAT
 Blame
 Reparations
 BRAT
 Blame
 Reparations
 Arms
 Territory
 Arms
 Territory
 Created the League of Nations
 International peacekeeping organization
 Purpose was to prevent another world war
 International peacekeeping organization
 Purpose was to prevent another world war
 Discuss
 BRAT
 League of Nations
 How did the Treaty
of Versailles help
cause WW2?
 International peacekeeping organization
 Purpose was to prevent another world war
 Worldwide economic depression
 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:
 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
 Soviet Union (USSR/Russia)
 Bolshevik Revolution established a communist
government (1917)
 Japan
 Established a militaristic government (1926)
Hirohito
 Japan
 Established a militaristic
government (1926)
 Italy
 Mussolini established a fascist
government (1922)
 Extreme nationalism
 Mussolini established a fascist
government (1922)
 Extreme nationalism
 Germany
 Hitler established the Nazi
government (1933)
 Form of fascism
 Hitler established the Nazi government (1933)
 Form of fascism
 Discuss
 Worldwide depression
 Totalitarianism (definition)
 Totalitarianism in:
 USSR
 Japan
 Italy
 Germany
 Write a sentence describing how one of the following
helped cause WW2:
 Depression
 Totalitarianism
 Hitler established the
Nazi government (1933)
 Form of fascism
 Imperialism
 When a stronger nation
dominates a weaker nation
 Japan
 Invaded Manchuria (1931)
 Japan
 Invaded Manchuria (1931)
 Invaded China (1937)
 Invaded China (1937)
 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”
 Invaded China (1937)
 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”
 Invaded China (1937)
 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”
 Invaded China (1937)
 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”
 Invaded China (1937)
 Murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the
“Rape of Nanking”
 Italy
 Invaded Ethiopia (1935)
 Italy
 Invaded Ethiopia (1935)
 Germany
 Moved troops into the
Rhineland (1936)
 Germany
 Moved troops into the Rhineland (1936)
 Invaded Austria (1938)
 Moved troops into the Rhineland (1936)
 Invaded Austria (1938)
 Invaded Czechoslovakia (1939)
 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
 British and French policy
 Hoped to avoid war by giving in to Hitler
 Enabled Germany to easily conquer its
weaker neighbors
 Hoped to avoid war by giving in to Hitler
 Enabled Germany to easily conquer its
weaker neighbors
 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
 Isolationism
 The U.S. refused to join the
League of Nations
 The U.S. did little to stop
Japanese, Italian, and
German aggression
 The U.S. refused to join the League of Nations
 The U.S. did little to stop Japanese, Italian, and
German aggression
 Discuss
 Imperialism in:
 Japan
 Italy
 Germany
 Appeasement
 US Isolationism
 Write a sentence describing how one of
the following helped cause WW2:
 Imperialism
 Appeasement
 Isolationism
 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
 Germany
 Italy
 Japan
 Allies
 Britain
 France
China
Canada
Australia
 Soviet Union (joined in 1941)
 United States (joined in 1941)
 Soviet Union (joined in 1941)
 United States (joined in 1941)
 Soviet Union (joined in 1941)
 United States (joined in 1941)
 World leaders
 Italy
 Benito Mussolini
 Italy
 Benito Mussolini
 Japan
 Hirohito (emperor)
 Hideki Tojo (prime minister, general)
 Isoroku Yamamoto (navy)
 Hideki Tojo (prime minister, general)
 Isoroku Yamamoto (navy)
 Germany
 Adolf Hitler
 Germany
 Adolf Hitler
 Soviet Union
 Joseph Stalin
 Soviet Union
 Joseph Stalin
 Britain
 Neville Chamberlain
 Winston Churchill (replaced Chamberlain in 1940)
 Neville Chamberlain
 Winston Churchill (replaced Chamberlain in 1940)
 France
 Charles de Gaulle
 France
 Charles de Gaulle
 American leaders
 Political leaders
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
 Harry S Truman (replaced Roosevelt in 1945)
 Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
 Harry S Truman (replaced Roosevelt in 1945)
 Military leaders
 European Theater
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower (supreme
commander)
 European Theater
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower (supreme
commander)
 General George S. Patton
 General George S. Patton
 Pacific Theater
 Admiral Chester Nimitz (navy)
 General Douglas MacArthur (army)
 Admiral Chester Nimitz (navy)
 General Douglas MacArthur (army)
 “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 Selasie of Ethiopia, Speech to the League of Nations,
1935
 According to Haile Selassie, who should stop the
aggressors?
 What would happen if the aggressors were not
stopped?