Post on 18-Jan-2016
World War IIWorld War II
Causes for World War Two
Economic Political Social
Germany After World War I
• Following the First World War, Germany was heavily burdened by war debt.
• It had been forced to borrow in order to pay back the victorious European nations.
• When the American
economy fell into depression, US banks recalled their loans, causing the German banking system to collapse.
Germany PaysWar Debts
to Allies
Allies Pay America Loans
United StatesLoans Germany
Funds
Loan Cycle
• Unemployment jumped Unemployment jumped from 1.3 million to 5 from 1.3 million to 5 million and industrial million and industrial production fell by production fell by one-halfone-half
Depression in GermanyDepression in Germany
Depression in Europe
Germany’s Unemployment in thousands—
1928—2,265,000
1932—5,392,000
1934—2,462,000
September 1928 650,000 unemployed
September 19291,320,000
unemployed
September 19303,000,000
unemployed
September 19314,350,000
unemployed
September 19325,102,000
unemployed
January 19336,100,000
unemployed
Causes of World War Two
Economic Political Social
Loan Debt
Great Depression
Unemployment
Nationalism on the Rise• "Everything in the
State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State"
• Renewed German & Italian Pride
• 2 Great Examples of Nationalism: Nazism (Germany) & Fascism (Italy)
Fascism In Italy
• Defined as corporatism, totalitarianism, nationalism, militarism, and Anti-Communism
• Italy had also been torn apartby the Allies in WWI
• Rise of Benito Mussolini – Powerful Speaker– Supporter of a Stronger State – Prime Minister in 1922– Non-hostile take-over of Gov.
Rise of Hitler
Adolph Hitler
(in color)
Adolph Hitler
• Born in Austria• Joined the Nazis after WWI• Modeled his ideas /charisma
after Mussolini• Protested the Government
•Arrested & wrote “Mein Kampf” in prison
•Depression hit Germany in 1930
•Became Chancellor in Germany in 1933
Can you See the Attraction to the Nazi Party?
Germany 1923-1933
Hitler’s Demands
• Hitler begins to rebuild the Military 1935• Rhineland Remilitarized 1936 • Unification with Austria (March 1938)• Sudetenland, German speaking Czechoslovakia,
(Sept. 1938)
• Appeasement– Neville Chamberlain British P.M.– “We have Peace in our time”
Germany 1938
Hitler’s Broken Promise
• Hitler promises Chamberlain– If he received the Sudetenland he would stop– September 1938
• Hitler invades Poland (March 1939)
Lightening fast Blitzkrieg
• Britain & France
declare war on Germany
Causes of World War Two
Economic Political Social
Loan Debt
Great Depression
Unemployment
Nationalism (Fascism & Nazism)
Germany’s Rebuilt Military
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg of Poland
Nationalism!!!
• Unification– people had restored pride in their country, in their people, and in their leaders
• Lead to Ideas of Ethnically Superior– You are better than other people groups
One Big Social Cause
• German in the Early 1930’s– Turmoil, unemployment, inflation…
• Someone has to take the blame…• Hitler blamed the Jews AND…• Along with Jews, non-Jewish Poles (over 3
million of whom died), alleged communists, the physically handicapped and mentally retarded, Soviet POWs, anti-Nazi clergy, trade unionists, and psychiatric patients were killed.
Causes of World War Two
Economic Political Social
Loan Debt
Great Depression
Unemployment
Nationalism (Fascism & Nazism)
Germany’s Rebuilt Military
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg of Poland
Holocaust
Nationalism (unification)