Transcript Sections 24-1 and 24

Dictators Threaten World Peace
Section 24*1
Nationalism Grips Europe & Asia
• Failures of Treaty of Versailles
– Rise in nationalism
– Economic depression
– Rise of authoritarian governments
Nationalism Grips Europe & Asia
• Joseph Stalin (Russia)
– Totalitarianism: Complete control of people
– Collectivized land
– “5 Year Plans” to modernize
– Killed 8-13 million
Nationalism Grips Europe & Asia
• Benito Mussolini
(Italy)
– Fascism: Emphasize
nationalism and
needs of the state
– Used Black Shirts to
capture Rome in
1922
– Invaded Ethiopia in
1935
Nationalism Grips Europe & Asia
• Adolf Hitler
(Germany)
– National Socialism
• Extreme Nationalism,
Racism, Expansionism
• Lebensraum: Living
Space
– Rise to Power
• Elected Chancellor
• Dissolved Republic
• Hitler Beomes Fuhrer
Nationalism Grips Europe & Asia
• Francisco Franco (Spain)
– Fascism
– Leads civil war to win power
• Hideki Tojo (Japan)
– Extreme Nationalism
– Invaded Manchuria
U.S. Responds Cautiously
• Americans Use Isolationism
– Bitter memories of WWI
– Resist providing supplies to foreigners
• FDR’s Foreign Policy
– Neutrality Acts: Outlaw sale of arms to
nations at war or in civil war
– Quarantine Speech: Isolate aggressors
War In Europe
Section 24*2
Austria and Czechoslovakia Fall
• Germany Takes Austria – 1938
– Anschluss: Unification of
Germany and Austria
– Realization of lebensraum
– Allied nations do nothing
Austria and Czechoslovakia Fall
• Germany invades Sudetenland – 1938
– Munich Pact (Sept. 1938)
• Hitler’s demands appeased
• Supported by France and Britain
– Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
The German Offensive
• Non-Aggression Pact
– Germany and USSR
won’t attack the
other
– Agree to divide
Poland
– Eliminate danger of 2
front war
– Poland invaded
September 1, 1939
France and Britain Fight On
• Germans Invade France
– Trap Allies in NW corner
of France- flee
– France surrenders June
1940
– Charles de Gaulle sets up
gov’t in exile in UK
France and Britain Fight On
• Germany Bombs Britain
– British use radar to fight
off Luftwaffe
– Hitler abandoned
invasion
– Churchill offers hope and
purpose to people
"Their Finest Hour"
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