World War IIWhat were the conditions that allowed totalitarian regimes to come to power throughout the world following WWI?

How did these regimes gain and maintain power?

Table of Contents

1. Failure of Peace (Finishing)

2. Rise of Totalitarianism & Start of World War II. (continuing)

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Focus Questions

Rise of Dictators

Step 1: Get out Graphic Rise of Totalitarianism Guide.

Step 2: Get into “Teaching” groups.

Step 3: Take turns teaching peers about assigned regime.

Complete Rise of Totalitarianism Guide

Objective: Study the post-WWI rise of totalitarianism in one of the following nations – Russia, Germany, Japan or Italy – and teach your classmates about yourtotalitarian regime.

Rise of Totalitarianism

Aggressive Expansion

Once the totalitarian government of Japan, Italy, and Germany, secured control of their nations , they began to look toward controlling other nations

Japanese Expansion

1931 – Japan seized Manchuria

province in Northern China.

1937 – Expanded control over China’s railroads and major coastal cities.

Japanese soldiers acted with extreme brutality in China’s then capital of Nanking.

Murdered and raped many city residents.

“Rape of Nanking”

ItalianExpansion 1935– Italy invaded Ethiopia

Ethiopia appealed to League of Nations for help.

LoN did nothing

Ethiopia was conquered

GermanExpansion 1933-1936 : Hitler rebuilt

Germany’s Military

Violation of Versailles Treaty

1936 : Hitler sent troops to Rhineland

1938 : German troops moved into Austria to unite Germany.

Called the Anschluss or “link up”

Munich Pact1938 – Hitler announced intention to annex the Sudetenland

Border areas of Czechoslovakia inhabited by many ethnic Germans.

To avoid war, a conference convened to determine Sudetenland’s fate

Munich Pact – agreement between Germany, France, and Britain to give the Sudetenland to Hitler in exchange for peace.

Appeasement

France and Britain’s strategy → Appeasement.

European leaders desperate to avoid another war.

Give Hitler Sudetenland and he’ll stop.

After Munich Conference

Neville Chamberlin, British Prime Minister, announced the agreement secured “Peace for our time”

Peace was short lived, WWII started 11 months later.

Definition – Making concessions, or compromise, to another power to avoid war.

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact Agreement where

Germany and the USSR pledged not to attack one another.

Secretly, agreed to invade and divide up Poland.

Germany’s eastern boarder secure from a Soviet attack.

August 23, 1939

Start of WWIISeptember 1, 1939Germany invades Poland; Hitler was not going to stop expansion.

Britain and France respond by declaring war on Germany.

Germany & Poland

Using blitzkrieg –lightening war- Germany quickly defeated Poland.

Emphasized speed and firepower by using advance communication to coordinate attacks using planes and tanks, followed by infantry.

Next Germany turned west – towards France.

France Falls

May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg – quickly defeated them.

Focused on France and quickly conquered them.

Quick Write!

On a sticky choose either

Isolationism

Or

Interventionism

explain WHY.

How should the United States respond the these events?

World War IIWhat was the United States' response to the rise of the Totalitarian regimes?

Should the United States Intervene or should it remain isolated?

Table of Contents

1. Failure of Peace (Finishing)

2. Rise of Totalitarianism & Start of World War II. (continuing)

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Focus Questions

Interventionist vs. Isolationist

Isolationists

America First Committee

Charles A Lindberg

“Intervention is detrimental to American

interests”

Internationalists

- Committee to Defend America- Best way to keep US out of war is to Help allies fight the Germans- Roosevelt is sympathetic

Setting : November 1941

Use provided documents to create

1 minute opening statement

3 facts for support

1 Minute closing statement

Roles

Debater: work with group to discuss, justify and clarify your position.

Answer the question – Should the US enter WWII?Compile a list of answer, use the documents, your textbook, and notes.Record information on Debate Note Sheet.

Moderator: keep everyone on task and take a neutral position. (2 from each side)

Research both positions using documents, textbooks and notes.

Homework

Using Documents, Textbook and Notes create

Complete Debate Note Sheet (20 pts)

Debate Material (15pts)

1 minute opening statement – 3 sentence minimum

3 facts for support – 1 sentence description

1 Minute closing statement - 3 sentence minimum

Be prepared to speak and justify your position! (15pts)