Transcript Chapter 16 Section 1 Dictators Threaten World Peace Brainstorms

Chapter 16 Section 1
Dictators Threaten
World Peace
Brainstorms
• What were the causes of
World War I?
– Nationalism
– Imperialism
– Militarism
– System of Alliances
– Assassination
Brainstorms
• What treaty
ended WWI?
– Treaty of
Versailles
Brainstorms
• What is the difference
between an idealist and a
realist?
– A realist understands how
the world works and deals
with it
– An idealist wants things to
be perfect regardless of
present world conditions.
Brainstorms
• What were the 14 Points?
• Wilson’s idealist solution to
end WWI and prevention to
prevent WWII
• No secret treaties
• Freedom of the seas
• Free trade ( no tariffs)
• Disarm
• Self Determination
Brainstorms
• What major world event took
place between 1929 and 1941
and what effect did it have
on Europe unlike the United
States?
– The Great Depression
– Dictators take control of
European Countries during
the Depression
Objectives:
• Identify the aggressive
leaders and their actions
at the beginning of World
War I
• Define fascism
• Describe how the United
States tried to remain
neutral.
Joseph Stalin & Soviet
Union
• Political Movements and Beliefs
• Focused on creating a model
communist state after Lenin’s
death
• Agriculture & Industrial growth are
the main goal
• Abolished private property. Farms
owned & controlled by the state
• 5 year plans to direct state run
industry
Joseph Stalin & Soviet
Union
• Aggressive Actions Taken in
the 1920s & 1930s
• Government control of
everything (Totalitarian
government)
• Killed 8 to 13 million people
who opposed him
• Individuals have no rights
Benito Mussolini ( Il Duce
or Leader) & Italy
• Political Movements and Beliefs
• Played upon Italian fears of
economic collapse & communism
• Fascism: stresses nationalism
and places the interests of the
state above those of an
individual. Need a single
strong leader & devoted party
members.
Benito Mussolini ( Il
Duce or Leader) & Italy
• Aggressive Actions Taken in
the 1920s & 1930s
• Black Shirts march on Rome
& King gives power to
Mussolini
• Crushed all opposition
• Made the trains run on time
(fix the economy)
• Invaded Ethiopia
Adolf Hitler (Der Fuhrer or
the Leader) & Germany
• Political Movements and Beliefs
• Party leader of the Nazis or
National Socialist German
Worker’s Party
• Nazism or fascism stressed
extreme nationalism and favored
uniting all German-speaking people
in a great German empire
• Blamed all problems on the Jews
• Master Race: blue-eyed blondhair Aryans
• Expansionism or space for Germans
to live
Adolf Hitler (Der Fuhrer
or the Leader) & Germany
• Aggressive Actions Taken in
the 1920s & 1930s
• Storm troopers or private
army (brown shirts)
• Pursued the Third Reich or
1000 Year Empire
(Overthrew Weimar
Republic)
• Military build-up
• Took back the Rhineland
Japanese Militarists
• Political Movements and
Beliefs
• Imperialism or
expansionism; Space for
people to live
Japanese Militarists
• Aggressive Actions Taken
in the 1920s & 1930s
• Invaded Manchuria in
China
Francisco Franco &
Spain
• Political
Movements and
Beliefs
• Franco installs
Totalitarian
government
Francisco Franco & Spain
• Aggressive Actions Taken in
the 1920s & 1930s
• Spanish Army with general
Franco rebelled against
Spanish republic (Civil War)
• Franco supported by Germany
& Italy (Rome-Berlin Axis)
• U.S. remained neutral
• Soviets sent equipment &
advisors
United States Neutrality
• 1928 the U.S. 1/62 signed
Kellogg-Briand Pact. War will not
be used as an instrument of
foreign policy
• 1933 to 1935 FDR was dealing
with other countries
– 1933 recognized the Soviet
Union
– Good Neighbor Policy in Latin
America removed U.S. soldiers
– Reciprocal Trade Agreement
lowered tariffs
United States Neutrality
• Neutrality Acts
• Outlawed arms sales or loans to
nations at war or in civil war
• U.S. sends arms and supplies
to Manchuria (China) because
Japan never officially declared
war