Transcript Dictators threaten world peace

April 7 Bell Work
Can a nation remain
“neutral” while providing
weapons & training to a
country at war?
Brainstorms
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What were the causes of World
War I?
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Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
System of Alliances
Assassination
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What treaty ended WWI?
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Treaty of Versailles
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What were the 14 Points?
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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
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What major world event took place
between 1929 and 1941 and what
effect did it have on Europe unlike
the United States?
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The Great Depression
Dictators take control of European
Countries during the Depression
Objectives:
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ID 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 Mussolino ( 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 Mussolino ( 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 Germanspeaking people in a great German empire
• Blamed all problems on the Jews
• Master Race: blue-eyed blond-hair 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 ( 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, except for 3000
Abraham Lincoln Battalion
• 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
• The Nye Committee and the “merchants of
deaths”
• 1933 to 1935 FDR was dealing with other
countries
– 1933 recognized the Soviet Union
– Good Neighbor Policy in LA 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