Quick Recap – do not write15-1-2-3

15-1• Einstein – Theory of Relativity• Existentialism• Nietzsche• Women’s Rights• Technology – radio, planes, cars• Global prosperity – dependent on U.S.

economy

15-2• Coalition Govts.• Weimar Republic – Germany prints more $• Dawes Plan• Great Depression – U.S. flawed economy• Cycle – no $=no buy=less production=layoffs• Stock market crashes 1929• Global depression• FDR & New Deal

15-3

• Fascism – militaristic dictators• Benito Mussolini – Italy• Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf) – Germany• Nazism• Lebensraum• War on Jews – Kristallnacht

Begin Writing

Aggressors on the March

15-4

Japan

• Democratic govt. blamed for depression• Military wants nationalism–Pacific Empire & China – raw materials

& room for population–Take Manchuria (1931) – Iron/coal–1937 – full war vs China• “Rape of Nanjing”

http://www.historywiz.com/massacre.htm

Appeasement• Giving in to an

aggressor to keep peace• Britain and France

- economic problems and WWI horrors

Italy• Sees Japan not stopped by

League of Nations • Wants colonial empire in

Africa• Invade Ethiopia (1935)–England allows Italy to

pass through Suez Canal to keep peace in Europe

Hitler defies Treaty

• 1935 Germany builds up troops

Axis Powers• Rome-Berlin Axis (Italy-Germany)• Later Japan joins becoming Axis

Powers

Civil War-Spain

• General Francisco Franco – Fascist

• Hitler and Mussolini send troops, tanks, & planes to help Franco

• 1939 Franco wins = Spain Fascist govt

World• Britain and France – keep

making concessions to keep peace – appeasement

• U.S. practices isolationism–Belief that political ties

to other countries should be avoided

Third Reich

• German Empire to last 1000 yrs• 1938 Hitler annexes Austria• Hitler wants Sudetenland

Munich Conference• Germany France Britain & Italy – No Czechs–Agree to let Hitler have Sudetenland if

he respects new borders• 6 months later Hitler takes Czechoslovakia• Mussolini takes Albania• Hitler wants Danzig (port in Poland)

Nazi-Soviet Pact• Stalin talks with Britain

and France about stopping Hitler

• Then signs Nazi-Soviet Pact–Non-aggression pact

towards each other

War appears inevitable