WWII:
Hitler- Germany
Stalin- Russia
Tojo- Japan
Churchill- Britain
Roosevelt- America
Mussolini- Italy
Hitler decided to invade countries, because they had German speaking people
Treaty of Versailles
- Took land from Germany, lost overseas colonies.
- Military was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanks
- Germany had to pay $33 billion dollars to the allies
- War Guilt Clause- Germany had to take responsibility for starting the war
- League of Nations- set up to keep world peace
Reactions to Treaty of Versailles
- Germany
- Germans were flustered because is was like it was forced on them
- Hitler especially hated the Treaty of Versailles
2. Allies
- Treaty seemed to satisfy US, Britain, and France
- Allies wanted to stop the spread of communism
- Kept French border with Germany safe
- The US senate refused to sign it
- US was not happy with it, isolation from other countries
Weimer Republic
- New democratic government set up by Germany after WWI
Why It Failed:
- Hitler hated it, and got rid of it when he came to power
League of Nations
- Tried to achieve world peace
- Economic sanctions- don't trade with certain countries
Weaknesses
- Can't wage war and send troops
- Took unanimous vote to get things done
- No US
Holocaust
Killed:
Jews could not be teachers, doctors or work for the government
1935 Nuremburg laws- took away Jews' citizenship, was 1/4 jewish, Jews could only marry Jews, no sexual relation between non-Jewish Germans and Jews.
1936- Nazi's boycotted Jewish-owned businesses
1938- Kristallnacht- Jew businesses and synagogues were vandalized, 91 Jews died. All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria
1939- Hitler orders the murder of disabled people, Jews were required to wear armbands or yellow stars
1941- 33,000 Jews are shot
1942- Germans plan to kill all Jews, US finds out about the Holocaust
1943- Jews in Ghetto resist the Nazis, and fight back for a month
1945- Hitler kills himself, WWII ends in Europe, Holocaust ends
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
- The League of Nations could not enforce its authority
- A major power could get away with using force
- Great Britain and France wanted to avoid war at all costs
US
Franklin Roosevelt vs Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt won easily
Good Neighbor Policy
Helped out close countries
Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini
- Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 Battle of Adua
- One of the worst colonial disasters in recent history
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