Transcript 2 Minute Drill

2 Minute Drill
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What is disarmament?
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What organization was created to prevent future
wars?
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What countries experienced totalitarianism and
militaristic changes after WWI? Who were the
leaders of these governments?
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What is Fascism?
Pre-World War II
Timeline
1919-1939
Treaty of Versailles
 June 28, 1919
 Treaty blamed Germany for WWI
 Forced Germany to pay for war
Kellogg-Briand Pact
 August 27, 1928
 Renounced war as an instrument of
national policy
 Failed to enforce decisions
U.S. Economic Crash
 October 1929
 Led to “Great Depression” and “Worldwide
Depression”
Japan Invades Manchuria
 September 19, 1931
 Japan uses military to expand territory.
Hitler becomes Chancellor of
Germany
 January 30, 1933
Established a
totalitarian
dictatorship
 Became head of state
in 1934
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Italy invades Ethiopia
 October 3, 1935
 Mussolini expands regime into Ethiopia
 Invasion showed weakness of League of
Nations
Germany remilitarizes Rhineland
 March 7, 1936
 German troop
occupied area
forbidden by Treaty
of Versailles.
 Rhineland was buffer
zone between France
and Germany.
Munich Agreement
 September 29, 1938
 Permitted Germany to annex Sudetenland
from Czechoslovakia
 Signed by Germany, France, Britain, Italy
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
 November 9, 1938
 (Night of Broken Glass)
 Nazis attacked Jewish people and property
in Germany.
 Destroyed businesses and sent Jews to
concentration camps
Nazi-Soviet Pact
 August 23, 1939
 Germany and Soviet Union would not
attack each other.
 Prevented two front war for Germany
Germany Invades Poland
 September 1, 1939
 Beginning of World War II