Leaders:
Benito Mussolini (Italy-Axis)
- Lost power because he was killed
- Signed the Rome-Berlin in alliance with Germany
- Invades Ethiopia
Hitler (Germany-Axis)
- Holocost- killings of millions of jews
- Non aggression pact with Soviet Union
- Committed suicide
- Invaded Poland to start war
- Took over Austria
- Bombed Britain for a long time
ToJo (Japan-Axis; bushier mustache and looks older)
- He was hung
- Best known for ordering Pearl Harbor attacka against United States
- He allowed his officers to be brutal to POW (prisoners of war)
Herohito (Japan-Axis; younger looking with smaller mustache)
- Died of natural cause or old age
- First emperor to talk to the people over radio
- Surrendered the war unconditionally; he was going to do whatever the United States said
Winston Churchill (Great Britain- Allies)
- Lost Election
- Well known for his speeches (We shall never surrender speech not giving into Germany) during WW2
Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States - Allies)
- Stroke
- Tried to keep us out of war with neutrality act
- Declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor; he signed the declaration of war
- Big believer in development the atomic bomb with Albert Einstein
Joseph Stallin (Soviet Union- allies officially after making pact with Hitler)
- Died of stroke
- Signing the non-aggression pact with Germany; then Germany turned on them and invaded them
- Soviets went into Berlin and took the capitol of Germany
1930's Topics
Invasion of Manchuria (31)
- Japan invaded Northern China because of the high tariff on the world trade so when world trade stopped with the United States they invade China in order to gain more resources
- The United States issued the high tariff
Italy Invades Ethiopia (36)
- It was revenge for the embarrasment when they lost to that African country in 1896 back
- Over takes them
Spanish Civil War (36)
- The importance for Hitler was it took the attention off of him to gain power and it allowed Hitler to test out his weapons and train his men.
- This also made an alliance with spain
Rome-Berlin Axis (36)
- Hitler and Mussolini said the worlds axis would rotate around Rome and Berlin (the capitols of their two countries)
- This is the official alliance of Germany and Italy
Japan invades China (37)
- It was too much for Japan to handle- at first they did very well though
- The soviet Union was to Germany as China was to Japan = they were too big of a challenge for Japan especially since United States was on China's side and fought against the japanese also.
Munich Conference (38)
- Hitler wanted to take over the Sudetenland area (little portion of Czechelavakia with a lot of Germans living in it)
- This was one of the lands he lost during WW1
- This meeting was to discuss this; we let him do this to prevent a huge war as long as Hitler promised not to take over any more land.
- Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France attended this conference
- Policy of Appeasement = they gave into Hitler as long as he promised to stop taking over land
- Winston Churchill disagreed with this decision
Austrian Anchluss (38)
- (an-shlu-oos) Hitler was born her, they speak German.
- After WW1 Austria asked to be apart of Germany so he annexed them or brought them to Germany.
- Anchluss= went Hitler took over Austria
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