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Week 22 – World War II
Causes
► Failure
of League of Nations
► Dissatisfaction in Germany with Treaty of
Versailles
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Reparations
Guilt Clause
Disarmament
Territorial losses
► German
Nationalism / Hitler’s aggression
► Failure of appeasment
Steps towards War
► In
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of
Germany
► Japan invades Manchuria
► Italy invades Ethiopia
► Rome-Berlin Axis pact with Italy (1936)
► Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan (1936)
► Germany remilitarizes Rhineland
Spanish Civil War
► 1936-1939
► “Warm-up for
WWII”
► General Franco tried to overthrow
monarchist regime  civil war between left
and right
► Fascist and communist countries help
Spanish forces
► Franco gains control 1939
Spanish Civil War
Appeasment
► Anschluss:
Germany invades/incorporates
Austria
► Wants to incorporate Germans in Czech
Sudetenland
► Munich Conference: GB and France appease
Hitler  “peace in our time”
► Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
Appeasment
Blitzkrieg
► Nazi-Soviet
Non-Agression Pact (1939)
 Agree to divide Poland
► Blitzkrieg
in Poland
► GB and France declare war but don’t attack
(“Phony war”)
► Germans invade Baltic States and Finland
“Phony War”
Occupation of France
► Germans
invade France
► Occupy northern part of France, control
government at Paris
► In South, set up collaborationist government
(Vichy Regime)
► Charles de Gaulle leads resistance
Occupation of France
Great Britain
► GB
is only strong ally left
 Getting aid from US through Lend-Lease Act
 Germany attacks GB via air
► GB
prevails in Battle of Britain
 “The Blitz”
► German
Luftwaffe loses to Royal Air Force
Turning of the Tide
► Germany’s
big mistake: Invasion of USSR
(1941)
► Soviet forces prevail at Stalingrad (19421943)
► Meanwhile, Axis powers invade Sicily and
capture Mussolini
► Axis powers defeat Japan at Midway
End of the War
► D-Day
invasion (June 1944) – liberate France
► Bombing of German cities like Dresden
► Battle of the Bulge: Germany’s last-ditch
effort – war ends in Germany in May 1945
► US drops atomic bombs on Japan (Sept
1945)