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How did the Treaty of Versailles help lead to WWII?
WARM UP
27-1: The Gathering Storm
Meet the Leaders
-Joseph Stalin took control after the Russian Revolution
and ruled Russia as a Totalitarian State.
-A single party controls the government and every aspect of
people’s lives.
-Used brutal methods to modernize Soviet industry and
agriculture- Communist style of
government
- Government owns all property and means of production.
Everyone is “equal.”
-May have killed an estimated 30 million people
SOVIET UNION- STALIN
-Represented U.S. Democracy
-Wanted to keep U.S. isolationist-minimal involvement in foreign
affairs
-In 1935 Congress passed the Neutrality Act
-banned arms sales or loans to countries at war.
-He got rid of the Roosevelt Corollary (Teddy)
-wanted to repair relationship with Latin America
UNITED STATES- FDR
- Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Constitutional Monarchy- Prime Minister along with a
Parliament are leaders. (similar to President &
Congress)
- Monarchy is just a ceremonial figurehead position with no
decision making power
- Considered one of the greatest leaders and speakers of the 20th
century
GREAT BRITAIN- WINSTON CHURCHILL
-Benito Mussolini used a fascist style of government
-Fascism- govt, rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism,
and blind loyalty to the state-Once Mussolini came to power he outlawed all political parties but
his own-He outlawed criticism of the
government
-Extremely brutal and violent
-Struck fear into followers
ITALY- MUSSOLINI
-Adolf Hitler turned the National Socialist German
Worker’s Party into the Nazi party.
-Brought them to power-Used anger from the Treaty of Versailles to gain support-When he became dictator of
Germany, he turned them into a fascists state
-Militaristic totalitarian state
GERMANY- HITLER
-Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s
misfortune-Used propaganda to
“brainwash” the people.-Most Jews in Germany
were rounded up and put into concentration
camps.
HITLER CONTINUED…
-Japan was ruled by a figurehead Emperor Hirohito.
- No actual decision making power
-They were taken over by General Hideki Tojo
-Japan believed they were a superior race to all other races.
-Also still angry about Treaty of Versailles
-Started a war with China-Set out to take over the Asian
world and beyond
JAPAN- TOJO & HIROHITO