yay tomorrow's Friday!!!! :D
- leaders
- Adolf Hitler - Germany
- FDR
- Benito Mussolini - Italy
- Winston Churchill - Great Britain
- Tojo - Japan
- Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union
- Vladimir Lenin - USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (first leader)
- very different from Stalin
- Russians dropped out of WWI because of they became Communist during the Bolshevik Revolution
- put them into a civil war
- Treaty of Versailles
- ended WWI
- caused everything that would happen later on in WWII
- a lot of new land was formed
- Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania taken from Soviet Union
- Poland taken from Germany and Soviet Union
- Yugoslavia was formed
- after that Hitler wanted to get his land back, that's why he invaded certain countries. Because his land was given to them.
- 3 main countries that signed it
- US, Great Britain, France
- Military Consequences
- Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men
- not allowed an air force
- army was not allowed tanks
- only allowed 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- they got around it though
- trained pilots in other countries
- they would train 100,000 men and then let them go and then the cycle repeats
- Rhineland is near the Rhine River, was going to be located between France and Germany,also known as a Buffer Zone, but it didn't become an independent country
- Financial Consequences
- the loss of vital industrial territory would be a severe blow to Germany's economy. Coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular was a vital economic loss
- Combines with the financial penalties link to reparations ($33 billion), it seemed clear to Germany that the Allies wanted nothing else but to bankrupt them. They went into a depression
- Germany was also forbidden to unite with Austria to form one superstate
- Austria wanted to join with Germany, but they couldn't
- Other basic things
- 1. Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. This was Clause 231 - the infamous "War Guilt Clause."
- 2. Because Germany is responsible for the war, they had to pay $33 billion.
- 3. League of Nations was set up to keep world peace.
- Non-Aggression Pact
- Between Germany and Soviet Union
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