THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II MAIN MILITARISM
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THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II MAIN
MILITARISM • German rearmament • French failed Maginot line: did not realize Hitler would outflank and go through ‘Low countries’ again. (Belgium, Luxembourg) • New weapons and techniques of warfare (as tested in Spain) made nations, particularly Germany, confident of an easy victory. • Japanese Naval build-up after ‘ 35
ALLIANCES AXIS vs ALLIES • The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1939. • Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact, 1939. • French alliance with Britain, 1938, and with Little Entente countries, and with Poland.
IMPERIALISM • Japan’s conquest of Manchuria in 1931 & the attack on China in 1937. • Italian conquest of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) in 1936. • German annexation of Austria, Sudetenland Czechoslovakia. • Desire of Germany to reacquire her lost colonies, and Italy to gain what she was denied at Versailles.
NATIONALISM • Nazi Germany’s resentment of Treaty of Versailles. • Italian Fascist desire to play the role of Great Power. • Japan’s doctrine of “ Asia for the Asiatics”. • German master race-Aryan • the Italian dream of Mare Nostrum”, • Japanese chauvinism • “war is a justifiable exercise of national sovereign power”.
BONUS CAUSES • American neutrality legislation-isolationism • Weakness of League of Nations: membership and lack of a fighting force. • Appeasement • Anger over Treaty of Versailles: “stab in the back and war guilt clause”. • The Great Depression
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles Rise of fascism in Italy Rise of Hitler Nationalism Japanese expansionism Major Causes of World War II Economic depression Militarism Appeasement Anticommunism
Theaters of War: Where WWII Was Fought Europe North Africa Atlantic Ocean Asia Pacific
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