CAUSES of World War 2

CAUSES of World War 2

Check your TIMELINE!

Multiple Choice

Which historic event happened between 1914 and 1918?

• Russian Revolution

• World War 1

• World War 2

• Treaty of Versailles

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What two important events took place in 1919?

• Russian Revolution

• Treaty of Versailles

• Policy of Appeasement

• League of Nations

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The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. Its main terms were....

• "War Guilt" Clause

• Germany lost territory to France, Poland, etc

• Germany had to pay war debts or reparation

• Germany did not lose its colonies

Multiple Choice

What happened in 1929 that started the so-called Great Depression?

• Germany got loans from the US

• Germany did not pay war debts

• Wall Street Crash in NYC

• Stock market crash in London

Open Ended

What was one ECONOMIC and SOCIAL IMPACT of the Great Depression in the early 1930s shown in the previous image?

Multiple Choice

The previous image shows an important event in Germany in 1933...

• Hitler is elected president

• Hitler seizes power by force (coup d`état)

• Hitler invades Poland

• Hitler is appointed chancelor by the German president

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The following are EVIDENCE of Hitler`s military expansion in Europe:

• He made enlistment mandatory and the army grew to 500,000 men

• He invaded the Rhineland near France in 1936

• He annexed Austria as German territory in 1938

• He invaded Czecholosvakia in 1939

• Germany makes an alliance with Italy and Japan in 1940

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Hitler justified his invasion of other territory with LEBENSRAUM.

What did that mean?

• It literally means "living space"

• According to Nazi thinking, Germans (as a "superior race") had the right to invade other territories to settle there...

• Same as anti-semitism

Munich Agreement

Britain, France, Italy and Germany signed it in 1938

Open Ended

Why was it part of a Policy of Appeasement?

Multiple Choice

Did this policy of appeasement stop Hitler`s military expansion in Europe?

• No, he invaded Czecholosvakia in 1939

• Yes, he followed the pact and stopped invading other territories

• Not sure

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It is true about the League of Nations set up in 1919...

• It was succesful in avoiding conflict through negotiation.

• Many countries were not members

• It failed in preventing Italy`s invasion of Ethiopia in Africa

• It stopped Japan from invading Manchuria in Asia.

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It is TRUE about JAPAN in the 1930s...

• Its economy was not impacted by the Great Depression.

• Looking for more resources to feed its economy, Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931

• Japan violently attacks and invades China in 1937

• Japan forms an triple alliance with Germany and Italy in 1940.

Multiple Choice

How did the US react to Japanese expansion in Asia and the Pacific ocean?

• They stopped trading with the Japanese which damaged their oil supply.

• They attacked Japanese military bases in the Pacific

• They joined WW2

Multiple Choice

World War 2 started in ---------- and ended in ------------

• 1939 - 1942

• 1939 - 1945

• 1914 - 1918

• 1938 - 1942