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Causes of WWII Directions: Get your interactive notebook, turn in long ways. Create a 5 column T-chart, title the enter chart “Causes of WWII T-Chart” Causes of WWII T-Chart League of Nations Fails Treaty of Versailles Rise of totalitarian governments Militarism Policy of Appeasement fails -Could not globally enforce peace -Left Germans feeling very angry after WWI Totalitarianism: A political system in the government controls every aspect of citizens lives. -Germany, Italy, and Japan build armies Appeasement: the practice of avoiding war by giving into aggressive demands made by a country -Germany, Italy, and Japan invade other countries -Germany invades Poland causing Britain and France to declare war on Germany. -no real power -only weapon to deal with aggressive nations was an embargo -U. S. did not join League of Nations -Limited Germany’s military forces -Allowed Hitler to gain national support -Germany, Italy, and Japan Fascism: government is more important than individuals -One person has all the power -builds nationalism: extreme pride in your nation, your nation is better than other nations. -Japan invades China and joins Germany and Italy side by signing the Tripartite Pact. -U. S. embargos oil supplies to Japan. Embargo: to stop trading with another country -U. S. supports Britain with military resources to fight Germany

War in the Pacific (Record notes in I. N. ) Japan is invading British colonies in China (1931), Malaya (1941), and Philippines (1941) U. S. sends military resources to Britain, China and France (Dec. 1940) U. S. holds or freezes all Japanese money, oil, and goods (July 1941) Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (Dec. 1941) because of U. S. embargos: stop trading goods (Nov. 1941) 2, 400 American troops die 1, 200 American troops wounded 19 U. S. ship sunk or damaged 188 U. S. aircraft destroyed https: //youtu. be/Utm. Ai. NG 2 Lxk

War in the Pacific: United States Fights Back (Record notes I. N. ) U. S. Declares War on Japan Senate and House of Representatives vote to go to war against Japan (Dec. 1941) U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a formal declaration of war against Japan (Dec. 1941) U. S. Loses in Philippines U. S. surrenders in Philippines (May 1942) Japan takes 75, 000 prisoners of war, this is known as the Bataan Death March (May 1942) Prisoners marched 80 miles in harsh conditions 600 American soldiers died 10, 000 Filipinos soldiers died 200 th and 215 regiments were prominently Hispanic, most taken prisoner Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright praised these units, “They were the first to fire and the last to lay down their arms only reluctantly doing so after being given a direct order. ”

War in the Pacific (Record notes I. N. ) Japan bombs Northwest Australia trying to cut off Australian, British, and American troop (Feb. 1942) Battle of the Coral Sea, off North East Australia, strategic success for U. S. (May 1942) U. S. prevents Japan from cutting Australia off from Allied forces Stops Japanese totalitarian expansion Battle of Midway (May 942) U. S. cracks Japanese secret message about bombing 2 small islands in North Pacific Ocean (May 1942) Japan torpedo's Aleutian Islands in Alaska. U. S. vs. Japanese at Midway Atoll in North Pacific Ocean (June 1942) U. S. defeats Japan, destroying 3 Japanese aircraft carriers and capturing the 4.