3
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Munich Conference
2
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put Jews in ghettos
2
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Italy invades Ethiopia
4
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gassing of Jews, then ovens
1
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Nuremberg Laws passed
1
4
____ Nazis & Soviets sign NonAggression Pact
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concentration camps
3
2 Pearl Harbor attacked
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D-Day invasion
3
4 Atomic bombs dropped on
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
1 Battle of Britain
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1
____ US cuts off oil supplies to Japan
3 Bataan Death March
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2
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Battle of Stalingrad
4
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Battle of the Bulge
AXIS Powers?
JAPAN #1
GERMANY #7
ITALY #6
4
3
7
5
6
2
1
ALLIED Powers?
BRITAIN #4
FRANCE #5
USSR #3
CHINA #2
US (not shown)
Japanese
conquests?
German conquests?
Italian conquests?
SHORT ANSWERS
Characteristics of Fascism: censorship, indoctrination, secret police, extreme
nationalism, uses propaganda, government controls economy, one-party rule,
supreme charismatic leader, use of militarism to achieve goals, racism against a
particular group, State more important than individual
Use BACK of 31.3 notes
Specific actions HITLER took that showed he was FASCIST?
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Burned “incorrect” books in public bonfires
Children forced to join Hitler Youth
SS & Gestapo arrested & imprisoned or killed Hitler’s enemies
Taught Aryan race was superior to all others
All art, music, architecture, books must glorify Hitler & Nazis
Blamed communists for Reichstag fire
Made strikes & labor unions illegal
Nazi party was only political party allowed
Armies invaded most of Europe to get “living space” for Aryans
Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of rights
Jewish businesses & homes attacked in Kristallnacht
Children spied & turned in parents & teachers
Characteristics of Fascism: censorship, indoctrination, secret police, extreme
nationalism, uses propaganda, government controls economy, one-party rule,
supreme charismatic leader, use of militarism to achieve goals, racism against a
particular group, State more important than individual
Use BACK of 31.3 notes
Specific actions of MUSSOLINI showing he was FASCIST?
• Radio shows & newspapers had to be approved daily by govt
• Blackshirts beat up communists & socialists
• Posters of Mussolini were everywhere & made him look all-powerful
• Made strikes illegal
• Gov’t took over transportation & made trains “run on time”
• Fascist party was only political party allowed
• Armies invaded Ethiopia & N Africa to re-create Roman Empire
• Blackshirts marched on Rome to force appointment of Mussolini
Use 31.2 Notes
Major cause of Great Depression? Stock market crash
Specific actions taken by US to deal with Great Depression?
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Government started building projects to put people to work
Government gave aid to businesses & farms
Government gave welfare payments to poor
Congress passed regulations to reform stock market & banking
Specific actions taken by Japan, Italy or Germany to deal with Great
Depression?
• JAPAN – turned over control to military, conquered other countries in
Pacific region to get raw materials
• ITALY – let Mussolini take power as dictator, outlawed strikes by
unions,
• GERMANY – elected Nazi party & Hitler as dictator, sent Jews to
ghettos & concentration camps which opened up jobs to Germans,
increased military production for war providing jobs
USE 31.3 Venn Diagram
How were the BELIEFS of communism & fascism ALIKE?
• BOTH had a dictator with only 1 party
• BOTH believed the State is Supreme
• BOTH denied individual rights & democracy
How were their BELIEFS different?
FASCISM
COMMUNISM
Classless society
Ea class had a different role to play
Was Internationalist
Was Nationalist
Spread communist IDEAS
to other countries
Use military to take
over other countries
Use Homework #1
How did changes in labor-saving devices, communications,or
transportation BETWEEN THE WARS change people’s lives?
LABOR SAVING DEVICES
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Electric irons, electric washing machines, electric refrigerators,
electric coffee pot, electric vacuum cleaner
All made lives of WOMEN easier
COMMUNICATIONS
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Each family had a RADIO & major networks broadcast shows
Sound was added to MOVIES so musicals became popular
BOTH of these “brought the world closer together”
TRANSPORTATION
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AUTOMOBILES became more affordable because of assembly line &
you could buy them on credit
AIRPLANES created national airlines so passengers could use them –
only wealthy could afford this though
POLITICAL CARTOONS
What event?
Battle of Britain
What you see?
• A. Hitler Dentist
• Hats on wall w/
country names
• You’re next
• Man in chair has
pliers
ajor message & Hitler has already conquered most of Europe & is ready
ow you know
to invade Britain but Winston Churchill is ready for him
& will fight back & not surrender
What event?
German invasion of USSR
What you see?
• Hitler (R) stabbing Stalin in the back
with a knife
• Stalin drops “Russo-German pact”
• “Forgive me comrade”
• Oil wells & grain to L of Stalin
• Hidden army to R of Hitler
• Planes flying above
Major message & how you
know
Hitler broke the non-aggression pact he had signed with Stalin when he invaded the
USSR to get its oil supplies & grain. He will invade with army & German Luftwaffe (air
force). He is “stabbing Stalin in back” because they both had promised not to attack
each other.
What event?
Japanese invasion of
Manchuria & China
What you see?
• Japan shooting missiles
through international
agreements
• Kellogg Pact, League of
Nations Covenant
• Dead bodies & pagoda
(China)
• Asian soldier (Japanese)
w/ missile
Major message & Japanese invasion of Manchuria & China violated the
how you know
Kellogg-Briand Pact & Versailles Treaty but League of
Nations did nothing
What event?
Nazis coming to power in
Germany
What you see?
• Rolled up paper labeled
VERSAILLES TREATY
• Man crawling out of the
treaty
• Man is wearing a helmet
labeled HITLER PARTY
• Helmet has a point on
top
Major message & German hatred of the Versailles Treaty helped Hitler
how you know
& the Nazis take over in Germany
What event?
US dropping atomic bomb
on Japan
What you see?
• 2 cloaked figures labeled
DEATH & RUIN
• Suitcases labeled ATOMIC
& BOMBS
• Cloaked figures have no
faces
• Fire at bottom of figures
• Small figure leaning away
in bottom right labeled
JAP PEASANT
• “We have come to stay”
Major message &
how you know
The atomic bomb caused a nuclear age & devastation
in Japan, along with US occupation
Terms to know
idea that a country should remain neutral and not
take sides in a conflict; major US policy between
the wars, ex Neutrality Acts
giving in to someone to avoid war
Isolationism - #19
appeasement - #16
Germany’s weak democratic government
Weimar Republic - #4
after WWIl that was blamed for the
Versailles Treaty
US banks loaned money to Germany, then
Germany paid reparations to Britain & France, &
Britain & France paid back loans to US
Dawes Plan - #5
when many political parties formed a loose Coalition governments alliance to run a country; Britain & France
#3
used it
Type of government Germany & Italy had
during WWII
Fascism - #9
Superior race according to Hitler
Aryan - #13
Name for French government (really
controlled by Hitler) in World War II
Vichy - #25
passed against the Jews in Nazi Germany
Nuremberg Laws - #38
punished Nazi war criminals after
the war
Nuremberg Trials - #47
Il Duce; dictator of Italy
Mussolini - #10
won Spanish Civil War; fascist
dictator of Spain
Franco - #18
Der Fuhrer: dictator of Germany
Hitler - #11
Supreme Allied commander; led troops at
D-Day
Eisenhower - #42
US commander in Pacific; later wrote
Japanese constitution
MacArthur - #36
Japanese emperor
Hirohito - #15
leader of Free French Underground &
government in exile
DeGaulle - #26
inspirational leader of Britain
Japanese commander who
planned Pearl Harbor attack
Churchill - #27
Yamamoto - #31
Created theory of relativity; laid
groundwork for later atomic research
Einstein - #1
systematic killing off an entire race or
group
Genocide - #41
Allies agreed to let Hitler take control of the
Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
opened a 2nd front in Europe against
Nazis
most nations of world signed pledge to
not start a war or attack others
loss for Allies but most British & French
troops were rescued & taken to Britain
by ships
book Hitler wrote while in jail
Munich Conference #20
D-Day - #44
Kellogg-Brian Pact - #6
Dunkirk - #24
Mein Kampf - #12
last offensive of the Germans
started when Jewish boy a Nazi
diplomat; SS destroyed Jewish homes
& businesses
Battle of the Bulge - #45
Kristallnacht - #14
guns placed by the French along German
border to protect themselves from invasion
systematic mass slaughter of 6 million Jews &
millions of other groups during WWII
Japanese suicide pilots who flew their
planes into American ships
Used by Germany to quickly conquer
Europe; tanks followed by troops with air
cover from planes
Used by USSR against German invasion;
burning everything so Germans can’t use it
Maginot Line - #24
Holocaust - #37
Kamikazes- #46
Blitzkrieg - #22
Scorched earth
policy- #29
Changed US policy by allowing it to loan
weapons & supplies to the Allies
Lend-Lease - #30
Japanese soldiers forced US soldiers to march 70
miles across the Philippines because they had no
respect for those who surrendered
The Japanese attack here ended US
isolationism, causing declaration of war
Pearl Harbor - #32
German failure here caused Hitler to decide to
attack Eastern Europe instead; RAF won because
radar helped them know speed & direction of
Luftwaffe planes
Benefitted both Germany & USSR because
Soviet Union gained part of Poland &
Germany avoided a 2-front war
Bataan Death
March - #33
Battle of Britain
- #28
Soviet-Nazi NonAggression Pact #21