World War Two The Road to War Failures

World War Two The Road to War

Failures of the Treaty of Versailles • Germany was forced to accept the blame for the war • Germany was forced to pay reparations • Germany was forced to demilitarize • The German people were left in economic despair • Germany was forced to give up land for the creation of Poland other nations

Japan • Japan island nation devoid of resources • Japan wants to create industries but has no resources • Japan realizes that Industrialization can only be realized through Imperialism / militarism

Japan seeks Growth

Japan invades Manchuria Japan desired mineral deposits vital to its Industrial expansion

Japan Attacks! • Manchuria China held • Japanese feel racially superior • to other Asian groups the resources Japan needed. Japanese soldiers easily crush The League of Nations condemns the action but is the Chinese forces. powerless to stop it • Japan celebrates a great Nationalistic victory.

Dictators on the Rise • Instability in Europe after WWI has allowed dictators, who promise prosperity, to rise to power. • Joseph Stalin seizes control of the USSR. He purges out enemies and forces industrialization upon his people

Hitler Rises to Power • In 1933 Hitler is announced as the Chancellor of Germany. He announces his plan for a Third Reich. A German domination of the world for a thousand years.

• In Italy, Benito Mussolini, “IL Duece, ” uses Facism to seize control. Facism is a movement utilizing a centralized authoritarian state to control the people. It involves ultra nationalism and militarism to convince the people that the Dictator is their hero. Facists hate communism due to the creation of a single class and the destruction of capitalism

• Mussolini seeks to rebuild the old Roman Empire. He attacks small nations near Italy and invades Ethiopia. He then sets his eyes upon places like Greece.

Spain • • • Franciso Franco Fascist Uses a civil war to take control of Spain He invites Germany to help him win the war He uses German military equipment to win. The Germans are able to test new tech and techniques. • Germany gets to display their power to the world

Franco’s War on Spain A soldier at his moment of death in the Civil War

Britain Faces Adversity • British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin • Attempts to create a peace agreement with Adolf Hitler. He and Hitler sign the Munich Pact. This pact promises that Germany may invade Czechoslovakia but may not invade any other nations. • Chamberlin thinks he has won peace • Others are not so sure Hitler will obey.

Munich Pact

Sir Winston Churchill

Churchill Takes Over • Winston Churchill leads an oposition movement to take over Parliament. • In 1939, Germany signs a non-aggression pact with Stalin. Both men agree that Germany can invade Poland. Stalin will not attack Germany. • Germany attacks Poland. Thus violating the Munich Pact • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

Battle of Britain Throughout the Summer of 1940, Britain endured daily and Nightly attacks from the German Air Force. Citizens spent nights In bomb shelters

Children take shelter during a raid at their school

America Clings to Neutrality • President FDR promises to abide by the Neutrality Acts, yet he begins to realize that Britain cannot fight a war against Germany by itself. He starts the lend lease act in order to begin sending supplies to Britain.

What will happen next? • Americans suspect that the United States will not be able to escape from the growing war. • The United States begins preparing for the inevitable entry into the war. • However, how will war come to us? • How will the American people be brought into this war?

DEC 7 th, 1941 • The United States saw its relationship with Japan eroding away. • The US suspected an attack would come from Japan at some point. Likely the attack would be on the Philippine Islands. The Philippines were a US territory in the Pacific Ocean. • Surprise! The attack came on Sunday Morning at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.