Leaders
- adolf hitler- germany
- benito mussolini- italy
- fdr- u.s
- stallin- russia
- toejo- japan
- winston churchil- great britain
Pre russia war-ish
- in 1931 russia dropped out of wwi to join bolshevic revolution
- communists took over
- we hated the soviet union
- vladamir lenin- first leader of soviet union
Treaty of Versailles:
- treaty of versailles was the cause of the inflation and wwi and wwii
- treaty of versailles- ended wwi
- germany and russia were aggressive during the war
- hall of mirrors- where treaty of versailles was signed
-territorial lost-
- Germany lost land to other countries- France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland
- Alsace-Lorraine - given to France
- Eupen and Malmedy - given to Belgium
- Northern Schleswig - given to Denmark
- Hultschin- given to Czechoslovakia
- in WWII Hitler invaded these countries because he wanted to get all of the German people that were taken away during WWII
-Military-
- Germany could have no more than 100,000 men, no tanks, no airforce, only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines.
- Rhineland 50kms from the River Rhine was a DMZ (demilitarized zone) no german soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone. allies kept an army of occupation here for 15 years
-Financial-
- the land germany lost had a lot of resources, which means they lost a lot of economy, plus the 33 billion dollars for war reparations- Germany thought the allies wanted to bankrupt them.
- Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate.
-General-
- Germany had to admit to full responsibility for starting the war
- because Germany was responsible they had to pay for it
- league of nations was set up to keep world peace
-Germany Reaction-
- People thought the treaty was unfair
- Diktat-Dictated peace- it was forced on germany and they had no choice but to sign it
- a lot of people did not want it signed
- they signed it also because they knew they were incapable of starting the war again
- people started supporting hitler because he wanted to reverse the treaty of versailles
-Allies Reaction-
- people were happy with it- satisfied the "big three" U.S., Great Britain, France
- allies believed it was a just peace as it kept Germany weak yet strong enough to stop the spread of communism
- kept French border safe
- created the league of nations that would end warfare throughout the war
- the senate refused to sign the treaty of versailles because they thought it would pull us into war. if we were in the league of nations we would keep getting into european wars
- we never signed the league of nations
- Japan was happy coming out of WWI
-Wiemar Republic-
- new democratic government set up after WW1
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