1. Quick Write Please tell me anything and everything you know about WWI. If you get stuck on some things, please tell me everything that you would like to know about WWII.

2. World War II is Coming!!1931-1941

3. Nationalism Grips Europe and Asia • Failures of the World War I Peace Settlement • Treaty of Versailles causes anger in Europe • Germany resentful • Blame for war (War guilt Clause) • Loss of territory • Russia resents loss of land • New democracies struggle • Social, Economic problems • Dictators rise-Totalitarian Governments • Driven by nationalism • Desire for territory

4. Nationalism In Europe and Asia • 1922 Vladimir Lenin establishes Soviet Union • 1924 Joseph Stalin takes over: • Collectivized Farms • Creates second largest industrial power • Famines kill millions • Purges anyone who threatens his power • 8-13 million killed • Totalitarian government • Total Control

5. Nationalism Grips Europe and Asia • Fascism in Italy • Economic problems • Middle, upper classes want stronger leaders • Fascism stresses nationalism, needs of state above individual • Benito Mussolini plays on fears of economic collapse, communism • Supported by government officials, police, army • 1922 appointed head of government, establishes totalitarian state

6. Nationalism Grips Europe and Asia • The Nazis Take Over Germany • Adolf Hitler leader of National Socialist German Workers’ Party • Mein Kampf—Hitler’s Book • Basic beliefs of Nazism, based on extreme nationalism • Wants racial “purification” • 1932, 6 million unemployed; many men join Hitler’s private army • Hyper inflation • Nazis become strongest political party; Hitler named chancellor • Weak Weimar Republic falls • NAZIs take over

7. Nationalism Grips Europe and Asia • 1931, Japan invades Manchuria • League of Nations bashes action; Japan quits League • Military in control of Japanese government • Aggression in Europe and Africa • 1933, Hitler quits League; 1935, begins military buildup • Sends troops into Rhineland • League does not stop him • 1935—Mussolini invades Ethiopia • League does not stop him

8. Nationalism Grips Europe and Asia • Civil War Breaks Out in Spain • 1936, General Francisco Franco rebels against Spanish govt. • Spanish Civil War begins • Hitler, Mussolini back Franco • Western democracies remain neutral • War leads to Rome-Berlin Axis—alliance between Italy and Germany • 1939, Franco wins war, becomes fascist dictator

9. Guernica: describes the Civil War in Spain

10. The United States Responds Cautiously • Americans Isolationist • Americans don’t want another WWI • FDR backs away from foreign policy • 1935 Neutrality Acts try to keep U.S. out of future wars • Outlaws arms sales, loans to nations at war • Neutrality Breaks Down • 1937 Japan launches new attack on China; FDR sends aid to China • FDR wants to isolate aggressor nations to stop war