CAUSES:NATIONALISM- THE SLAVS AND RUSSIA- SERBIAN NATIONALISM- REUNIFIED GERMANY AND ITALY- THE FRENCH AND ALSACE LORRAINE IMPERIALISM- MOSTLY IN AFRICA (COLONIALISM FOR RAW

MATERIALS)

MILITARISM

ALLIANCES

LONG-TERM CAUSES OF WWII 1. TREATY OF VERSAILLE- GERMAN REPARATIONS- WAR CRIMES- DEMILITARIZEDTHE RHINELAND2. ITALY WANTED ANOTHER ROMAN EMPIRE 3. JAPAN WANTED TO BE A COLONIAL NATION4. RACISM, FASCISM AND NATIONALISM!!5. THE GREAT DEPRESSION6. APPEASEMENT

 

SHORT-TERM CAUSES OF WWII

1. THE RHINELAND WAS MILITARZIED2. HITLER IS APPEASED AND GIVEN THE

SUDETENLAND AND ‘AUSHLUSS’ WITH AUSTRIA3. HITLER GOES INTO POLAND……..

THE TREATY OF VERSIALLE

1. THE GERMAN EMPEROR, WILHELM II, WAS TO BE CHARGED AS A WAR CRIMINAL, AS WERE MANY OF HIS GENERALS.

2. ARTICLE 231 “THE WAR GUILT CLAUSE” ASSIGNED BLAME TO GERMANY AND TO NO OTHER FOR STARTING WWI

3. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

4. LAND……………………………………………………

WHY WAS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE SO UNSKILLFUL

THE REPARATION WERE TOO HIGH

GERMANY WAS REQUIRED TO PAY 132 BILLION MARKS

THAT’S 31 BILLION DOLLARS IN 1919

THAT’S THE EQUIVALENT OF OVER 500 BILLION DOLLARS IN TODAY’S

MONEY!!!!!!!!

IN FACT, GERMAN MARKS LOST SO MUCH VALUE THAT A GERMAN CANDY BAR (THEY HAVE GREAT

CHOCOLATE) COST 100 MILLION MARKS.

ON SALE:

ONLY 100,000,000 MARKS!!!!!!!

THIS, MIXED WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION, CREATED THE ECONOMIC CLIMATE WHICH ADOLF HILTER WAS ABLE TO

SO EASILY EXPLOIT.

THEY HAD A GREAT DEAL OF LAND TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM1. POLAND WOULD GET EASTERN GERMANY2. RUSSIA WOULD ALSO GET A PART OF EASTERN

GERMANY (WHICH IT STILL OWNS TODAY BY THE WAY)

3. OBVIOULSY FRANCE WOULD GET BACK ALSACE-LORRAINE

4. DENMARK GOT A PIECE OF NORTHERN GERMANY

5. CZECHOLSAVAKIA GOT A PIECE OF SOUTHERN GERMANY CALLED THE SUDETENLAND (WHICH HITLER WILL THEN, UM , TAKE BACK!)

6. BELGIUM GOT A PIECE OF WESTERN GERMANY7. EVEN TINY LITTLE LITHUANIA GOT IN ON THE FUN8. THE CITY OF DANZIG, TODAY IN POLAND, WOULD BE RUN BY THE INCOMPETENT LEAGUE OF NATIONS9. ALL GERMAN COLONIES IN AFRICA WERE GIVEN TO THE REST OF EUROPE10.AND JUST TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY ALL GERMAN COLONIES IN THE PACIFIC WERE GIVEN TO ____ __________! (GUESS)

AND GERMANY WAS UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOWED TO KEEP ANY TROOPS IN THE RHINELAND

BUT GERMAN NATIONALISM TOOK ON A DIFFERENT FIORM WITH HITLER’S OVERT HATRED OF JEWS, SLAVS, BLACKS, HOMOSEXUALS, THE MENTALLY RETARDED, GYPSIES, AND ANYONE WITHOUT BLONDE HAIR OR BLUE EYES.

FASCISM: A GOVERNMENT IN WHICH THE STATE CONTROLS EVERYTHING, AND IS FERVENTLY NATIONALISTIC, VIOLENT AND RACIST.

ITALY……………….

1. A PIECE OF AUSTRIA2. SEVERAL PIECES OF YUGOSLAVIA 3. BUT IN FORMING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS PRESIDENT

WOODROW WILSON VETOED THIS PROVISION (AFTER ALL, ORIGINALLY ITLAY FOUGHT WITH THE BAD GUYS OF GERMANY AND THE AUSTR-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE.)

THIS, MIXED WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AGAIN CREATED THE IDEAL ENVIRONMENT FOR FASCIST CONTROL AND RACIST BLAME.

WAY BACK IN 1935 MUSSOLINI INVADED ETHIOPIA IN HOPES OF ADDING IT TO ITALY’S COLONIES IN EAST AFRICA,. IT IN EFFECT EXPOSED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AS ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS.

To President Harry S. Truman. Haile Selassie I. It is us today, it will be you tomorrow. --

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” ― Haile Selassie I

JAPAN INVADES MANCHURIA IN 1931

AGAIN, THE LEAGUE DID NOTHING

THEN JAPAN INVADES CHINA IN 1937. THIS WAS KNOWN AS THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR

AGAIN, THE LEAGUE DID NOTHING

APPEASEMENT

1. ITALY ATTACKING ETHIOPIA2. JAPAN INVADING CHINA3. GERMANY MILITARZIES THE

RHINELAND

1. GERMANY TAKES AUSTRIA-MARCH, 19382. HITLER AND CHAMBERLAIN SIGN THE

MUNICH PACT OF 1938 FOR WHICH HITLER WAS NOMINATED AS A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE-SEPTEMBER, 1938

3. GERMANY IS GIVEN A PIECE OF CZECHOSLAVAKIA KNOWN AS THE SUDETENLAND

4. GREMANY GOES AHEAD AND TAKES THE REST OF CZECHOLSVAKIA-MARCH, 1939

5. SEPTEMBER, 1939 UH-OH….GERMANY TAKES POLAND!!!!!!!!

GERMANY TAKES AUSTRIA (ANSCHLUSS). MARCH, 1938

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN AND HITLERSIGN THE MUNICH PACT 1938

GERMANY TAKES A PICE OF CZECHOSLAVAKIA KNOWN AS THE SUDETENLAND

TECHNOLOGY:WWI WWIIAIRPLANES               BETTER AIRPLANESU-BOATS   BETTER U-BOATS

     FLAMETHROWERS AND TANKSBETTER TANKS AND AUTOMTIAC MACHINE 

GUNSSONAR RADAR 

GAS MASKS          ATOMIC BOMB

 

HOMEFRONT:

ISOLATIONSIT TO

THE CORE!!!!!!!

INTENMENT CAMPS FOR JAPANESE

IN BOTH WWI AND WII AFRICAN -AMERICANS

PARTICPATED BUT SEGREGATED

1. AFRICAN-AMERICANS, LIKE ALL OTHER AMERICANS, WERE ISOLATIONIST. THEY REGARDED WWI, AMD WWII, AS “EUROPE’S WARS!”

2. ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY TENDED TO SIDE WITH FRANCE BECAUSE FRANCE WAS AHEAD OF THE GAME IN TERMS OF RACIAL EQUALITY. ALLOWING FRENCH-AFRICAN SOLDIERS TO FIGHT WITH OTHER FRENCH SOLDIERS

AS WITH WOMEN, AFRICAN-AMERICANS SAW WWI AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AT HOME. AFTER ALL, THEY ARGUED, IT WOULD BE HYPOCRITICAL FOR AMERICAN TO FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY ABROAD, AND NOT PROVIDE IT FOR BLACKS OR FOR WOMEN AT HOME.

"Let us have a real democracy for the United States and then we can advise a house cleaning over on the other side of the water," the Baltimore Afro-American asserted. 

W. E. B. Du Bois argued IN FAVOR of a seperate Officer Training School for African-Americans

Over one million African Americans responded to their draft calls, and roughly 370,000 black men were inducted into the army.

WOMEN IN WWIWWI: GAVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO

VOTETHE 19TH AMENDMENT: 1920

- As well as paid employment, they were also expected to take on other unpaid, voluntary work such as preparing rolling bandages, knitting clothes and preparing hampers for soldiers on the front.

- Working in factories making ammunition that would be sent to the front and also farming the land to keep up food supplies.

- Women helped pack up coal into sacks for distribution to where it was needed.

- 21,480 U.S. Army nurses - Eighteen were African-American

Army

- 1,476 U.S. Navy nurses

- 13,000 women admitted into active duty in the Navy and Marines but only had non-

combat positions(They received the same benefits

and responsibilities as men, including identical pay (US$28.75

per month)

- The U.S. Army recruited and trained 233 female bilingual

telephone operators

WWII: THE WORKFORCE

- The percentage of females in the workforce increased from 27% to 37%

- 25% of married women had a job outside of the domestic sphere (An effect which became known as "Rosie the Riveter" effect.

- IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE DURING WWII SET UP THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT OF THE 1970’S

- $ 1 BILLION IMMEDITALEY, BEFORE PEARL HARBOR- 50 NAVY DESTROYRES IMMEDIATELY TO GREAT

BRITAIN- TOTAL OF $50 BILLION ($647 BILLION IN 2013

DOLLARS) A. 30 BILLION TO ENGLAND B. 11 BILLION TO THE SOVIET UNION C. 3 BILLION TO FRANCE D. 1.6 BILLION TO CHINA

400,000 JEEPS AND TRUCKS12,000 ARMORED VEHICLES7000 TANKS11, 400 AIRPLANES1.75 MILLION TONS OF FOOD-

Lend-Lease Act

8:07 -10:00JAPAN INVADES CHINARHINELANDEHIOPIA

13:29: JAPAN AGAIN14:17-18:00SUDETENLKDNNAZI-SOCIET PACTPOLAND ETC.

95%

24:28 – 31:00HITLER’S “LIVING SPACE”INVADES RISSIA

31: lemd lease

35: 40JAPAN OILJAPAN SINGAPORE40:30 JAPAN IN SINGAPORE43:00 ATMOC BOMB45: MOSCOW