Bellringer: 3/9/2016
 1. Pick up the papers by the door.
 2. Take out your Interwar vocab to review on your own
or with the people around you for 5 MINUTES. After
that, we will play the Kahoot review as a last recap
before the vocab quiz.
 3. Write down your HW:
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Complete your Interwar Period study guide
Your Interwar Period mini-test is NEXT CLASS – FRI. 3/11 (45
points)
After your quiz:
 Keep your quiz with you at your desk. We will grade
these together after everyone is finished.
 If you need a colored pencil to use in grading the quiz,
raise your hand and I will bring the bin around.
 Make the following Table of Contents additions:
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119: Vocab Quiz: Interwar Pd.
120: PS Activity: Setting the Stage for WWII
121: Notes: Setting the Stage for WWII
122: Study Guide – Interwar Pd.
Agenda: 3-9
 1. Bellringer (Vocab Review)
 2. Kahoot Review
 3. Vocab Quiz – Interwar Period
 4. PS Activity – Setting the Stage for WWII
 5. Notes – Setting the Stage for WWII
 6. Study Guide Work Time (time permitting)
Setting the Stage for War
T H E E V E N TS A N D AT T I T U D E S I N T H E
I N T E RWA R P E R I O D T H AT L E D TO W W I I
6.
Nationalism
5.
Isolationism
and pacifism
4.
Expansion/
aggression
by
totalitarian
powers
1. Problems
with the
Treaty of
Versailles
Events and attitudes
in the Interwar
Period helping to
cause WWII
2. Problems
with the
League of
Nations
3. Appeasement
1. Issues with the Treaty of Versailles
 Back to Versailles again!
 Conditions leveled on Germany
creates tension
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Between Germany and other European
nations (especially the Allies)
“War Guilt” clause = problematic!
 Germany goes into debt
because of high reparation
payments
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Economy further hurt by global
economic depression
The people blame democratic
government in place (Weimar Republic)
This anger helps Hitler and the Nazi
Party gain power and popularity
2. Problems with the League of Nations
 League of Nations: Does it do what
it set out to do?
 PROBLEM: League of Nations does
not get its most important
potential member to join
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The United States = DOES NOT JOIN!
 Hurts the international reputation of the
LoN
 League also required 100%
agreement to do anything
 League of Nations is supposed to
prevent future wars
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LoN does not want another WWI
Because of this, the LoN sometimes is not
assertive enough in international relations
3. Appeasement
 What did you see in the cartoon
that might help us understand
appeasement?
•What is appeasement?
A diplomatic policy of making
political or material concessions to
an enemy power in order to avoid
conflict
•Other European countries will
try to “appease” Hitler,
Mussolini, and Hirahito/Tojo
3. Appeasement
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Why do Britain, France, etc. think
appeasement is a good idea in dealing
with Hitler?
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GB and France = afraid of war
 For France especially, it’s a
geographic thing
Britain also had some issues of their
own with the punishments placed on
Germany
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Britain = thinks Versailles was too harsh
on Germany
Many felt Hitler was just grandstanding
and making demands he wouldn’t
actually follow through with
•Leads Chamberlain (British PM) to
sign the Munich Agreement
Hitler said he would only take the
Sudetenland and if Czechoslovakia falls
apart, then he would govern it. The
other three agreed to this.
4. Aggression by Totalitarian Powers
 Germany, Japan, and Italy
all pursue aggressive,
expansion-oriented policies in
the Interwar Period
•Germany
•Expands military
•Takes Austria (via
Anschluss) and Sudetenland
•Will later invade Poland
•Japan
•Needs more room, raw
materials
•Invades Manchuria (1931)
•Starts Sino-Japanese War
(1937)
•Conflict with USSR (1938)
•Italy
•Still angry about lack of territory
from Treaty of Versailles
•Invades Ethiopia in 1935
•Wants a grand Roman-esque
empire
5. Isolationism and Pacifism
 See this especially from the U.S.
 Why does the U.S. isolate itself from
what is going on in Europe/Asia in
the Interwar Period?
1. Americans are disillusioned about
international involvement
2. U.S. in the midst of the Great Depression
- Can’t really afford to be in a war
right now
3. Problem of geography and distance
- Conflict in Europe seems distant
U.S. wants to remain neutral
- Does not want to have to send
its men and its soldiers to fight
a “European war”
6. Nationalism
 What is nationalism?
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The belief in the superiority of one’s own
nation over all others
•Extreme nationalism = the real
problem
Extreme nationalism will pit countries
against each other  can lead to major
conflicts between nations
6. Nationalism
 Where do we see this extreme
nationalism?
Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy
And Hirahito’s/Tojo’s Japan
7. Economic depression
 After WWI, many European economies
were unstable.
 The 1929 stock market crash in the
U.S. and the Great Depression spread
throughout the world
 Unemployment rises as economies
tumble down
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This leads to the rise of totalitarian states