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Dictators Threaten the Peace

Dictators Threaten the Peace. Stalin - USSR. Hitler - Germany. Mussolini - Italy. Franco - Spain. Militarists - Japan. 1931 – Japan invades Manchuria. 1933 – Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. Disavows Treaty of Versailles Begins to re-arm Eyes expansion (lebensraum)

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Dictators Threaten the Peace

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  1. Dictators Threaten the Peace

  2. Stalin - USSR

  3. Hitler - Germany

  4. Mussolini - Italy

  5. Franco - Spain

  6. Militarists - Japan

  7. 1931 – Japan invades Manchuria

  8. 1933 – Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany • Disavows Treaty of Versailles • Begins to re-arm • Eyes expansion (lebensraum) • Racist ideology (Mein Kampf)

  9. Lebensraum

  10. Racist ideology

  11. 1935 – Italy invades Ethiopa

  12. League of Nations • Condemns these moves but takes no action

  13. US vows to remain neutral. Is this realistic?

  14. C. D. Batchelor, Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy, New York Daily News (25th April, 1936)

  15. War in Europe

  16. March 1938 – Germany annexes Austria

  17. Sept. 1938 – Munich Conference gives Sudetenland to Germany

  18. Appeasement • Churchill “Great Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. Now they will have war.”

  19. Aug. 1939 – Germany and USSR agree to partition of Poland and non-agression

  20. Aug 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland • Blitzkrieg • GB and France declare war • WWII has begun

  21. The Phony War

  22. USSR begins to annex lost territories

  23. Spring 1940 • Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg north of the Maginot Line

  24. Germany invades France through the Ardennes Forest • British and French armies trapped at Dunkirk

  25. France Surrenders

  26. Germany sets sights on GB

  27. The Battle of Britain / The Blitz

  28. Britain Stands Alone • We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

  29. “Never before have so many owed so much to so few.”

  30. The Holocaust

  31. Within months of assuming power, Hitler begins the process that will result in the deaths of 11 million people

  32. Nuremberg Laws - 1935 • Jews stripped of Civil Rights and property • Identification

  33. Kristallnacht - 1938 • Storm troopers destroy Jewish businesses, homes, synagogues

  34. First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me. • Martin Niemoeller

  35. Jewish Refugees • 60,000 emigrate to US • Immigration quotas prevent more from coming

  36. Voyage of the St. Louis • Refugees refused entry in Cuba and the US • Finally accepted in several European countries • Many captured and killed as Nazis took over Europe

  37. Concentration Camps • Ghettos • Work camps • Death camps

  38. Slave Labor

  39. Medical experimentation • Josef Mengele

  40. The Final Solution - Genocide

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