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Title: WORLD WAR II


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WORLD WAR II
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WORLD WAR II
  • DATES 1939-1945
  • (U.S. ENTERS DEC. 7, 1941)
  • OPPONENTS
  • AXIS POWERS GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN
  • ALLIED POWERSBRITAIN, FRANCE,
    USSR(SOVIET UNION), U.S.

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CAUSES OF THE WAR
  1. RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
  2. MILITARISM
  3. TREATY OF VERSAILLES
  4. APPEASEMENT POLICY

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TOTALITARIANISM
  • FASCISM
  • POLITICAL SYSTEM EMPHASIZING THE LEADER,
    NATIONALISM, RACISM, AND NO TOLERANCE OF
    OPPOSITION
  • MUSSOLINI - ITALY
  • HITLER- GERMANY- NAZI PARTY

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JAPAN
  • HIROHITO-SEEN AS SUN GOD
  • TOJO- PRIME MINISTER DURING WAR
  • BUILT UP GREAT IMPERIAL NAVY AND ARMY

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SOVIET UNION
  • JOSEPH STALIN
  • CONTROLLED COUNTRY WITH STEEL FIST
  • PURGES

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TREATY OF VERSAILLES
  • REPARATIONS LEFT GERMANY WEAK
  • TREATY PUNISHED DIDNT SOLVE
  • HITLER PLAYED ON WEAKNESS

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APPEASEMENT POLICY
  • POLICY OF GIVING THINGS IN RETURN FOR PEACE
  • MARCH, 1936-REARMS RHINELAND
  • MARCH, 1938- OCCUPIES AUSTRIA

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MUNICH PACT
  • HITLER SIGNS PACT WITH NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
  • CHAMBERLAIN CLAIMS WE WILL HAVE PEACE IN OUR
    TIME

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HITLER CONTINUES
  • MARCH, 1939 TAKES CZECHOSLOVAKIA
  • AUGUST, 1939 SIGNS NON-AGRESSION PACT WITH SOVIET
    UNION

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WAR BEGINS
  • HITLER INVADES POLAND
  • BLITZKRIEG INTRODUCED-LIGHTNING WAR
  • BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
  • SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
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