MindSet: Monday, March 31st

If you had been alive in 1937, how do you think you would have felt about the war brewing in Europe? What would your position be as a U.S. citizen?

Goal: Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.

What were the causes of World War II?

The Causes of World War II

What is an axis?

Axis

Axis Powers

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Hideki Tojo

What: Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. Why: The causes of World War II continue to influence foreign policy today. How:

The Causes of World War II

1. WWI
1914-1918 Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, etc.
Allied Powers

Germany, AustriaHungary, Japan, Bulgaria

Central Powers

Caused by nationalism, imperialism, and militarism

2. Nationalism
Mussolini, Hitler
Nationalists

Mussolini
Promised to make Italy as great as the Roman Empire

Hitler
master race All others were inferior

Italy, Germany, Japan

Believed they had a right to rule others

3. Imperialism
Italy, Germany, Japan
Imperialistic Wanted to take over others land and resources

Japan tried to create a new empire

Manchuria, Vietnam, Pacific Islands

Italy moved into Africa

Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya

Germany united the German people

Austria, Czechoslovakia

11/19/1935-Ethiopia-Natives of a captured Tigray province pay their respects, Italian fashion, to a huge likeness of the "Great White Father."

4. Militarism
Italy, Germany, Japan
Tried to form a military axis
Center of the world

Called the Axis Powers

Spent great sums of money on the military Developed new weapons, built large armies Dying for your country is the highest honor

5. The Treaty of Versailles

Punished Germany severely Forced Austria and Germany to pay money Hitler and many other Germans wanted revenge.

6. The Great Depression

Breakdown of the world economy
1929 to the 1930s World trade stopped Money became worthless in some countries

Hard times encouraged dictators

Leaders who promised a better way of life

7. Totalitarian Dictatorships
All 3 Axis countries Little personal freedom, No free elections Easier to start war
Dont have to convince half the people

8. The League of Nations

Failure Little power to punish countries who broke the rules US never joined Germany, Japan left in 1933 Italy in 1937 Expelled Russia in 1939

9. The Stage is Set

Many worried about war starting in the early 1930s
Others were in denial

WWII would prove to be more destructive than WWI.

MindSet: Tuesday, April 1 1. Complete the vocab and the questions over the causes of WWII from Friday. 2. We will watch a video over Charles Lindbergh

MindSet, Wednesday, April 2, 2014: Copy the following into your comp book Congressional Response to Aggressive Nations 1933-1937 Nye Commission (1934): Senate investigation committee that published a report finding that bankers and arms manufacturers had pressed the U.S. to enter World War I Neutrality Acts 1935-1937---American citizens were forbidden: a. Sell or transport arms or munitions to nations at war b. To make loans to any nation at war c. To travel on ships of belligerents What did the above indicate?

MindSet, Thursday, April 3rd

Copy the Following into your comp book: From Neutrality to Intervention 1. Neutrality Act of 1939 Cash and Carry---nation could buy war supplies if they paid cash & carried in own ships 2. Destroyers for Bases deal Sept 1940Roosevelt signed agreement to trade 50 over-age destroyers for 99 year leases on Atlantic locations 3. Selective Service Act of 1940first peace time draft 4. Lead Lease 1941 ---public opinion showed 60% of people favored helping Britainagreement to lend, lease, exchange war equipment. Roosevelt called upon Americans to create an arsenal of democracy