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WWII
Changes & Problems in Governing
Europe After WWI
Europe’s InfluenceLoss of dominance in world
affairsJapan, US in better financial
shapeEurope drained of resources
New Democracies1914-1918 Euro’s last absolute
rulers overthrownNew democracies were unstable
– Little experience– Fr. & Italy- inefficiency due to too
many political parties (majority)– Coalition govt.- temporary
alliance to achieve majority
Why Dawes Plan?Germany defaults on
reparations– France takes Ruhr
France demands gold, not inflated dollars
1924 Dawes PlanHelped Germany recover from
inflation– Strengthen economy– $200 mil loan from US– Realistic schedule for reparations
1929 factories returned to 1913 levels
Treaties Bring HopeGer. & Fr. Foreign Ministers G.
Stresemann & A. Briand- undo worst features of Treaty– Locarno Treaty- Fr. & Ger. Not
go to war, Ger. Respected Belgian and French borders, Ger. Admitted into League
Treaties Bring HopeKellogg-Briand Pact- war
renounced– Signed by almost every country– No way to enforce- League had no
power
American economy basis of Euro economy
Weimar Republic
Weimar RepublicEst. 1919Weak- no democratic experience7 major political partiesWWI defeat associated w/ govt.Inflation- during war money
printed as neededOnly mistake= losing war
Technology Makes World
Smaller
AutomobileWartime improvements- electric
fuel pumps & starters, air-filled tires, powerful engines
Look of car improved
Air Travel1918 planes fly 100’s miles
– Use for airmail
1927 Lindbergh- 1st nonstop solo transatlantic flight
1930’s passenger airlines– Only for rich
Earhart- 1st women to cross Atlantic
RadioWWI led to push for development
of wireless radio– Research given high priority
1920- 1st commercial radio station1925 Radio was $25
Changes in Society
New Individual FreedomsBreak from tradition
– Consider new ideas
Why: WWI interrupted social patterns & customs– Young people more willing to
change
WomenWork in WWI brings suffrageMost still followed traditionSome followed new lifestyle
– Women equal partners w/ husband
Women in medicine, education, journalism
Art Reflects Social DoubtsHorrors of WWI reflectedTS Eliot- world drained of hope
– “The Wasteland”
F. Kafka- people caught in circumstances they could not understand or escape
J. Joyce- break from traditional sentence structure
Art Reflects Social DoubtsSurrealists- influenced by
Freud’s ideas on unconscious mind– Freud- behavior explained using
past experiences
American Culture SpreadsWWI proved US economic,
political, cultural powerDistinct contribution= jazz
– Phonograph & radio spread
Harlem Renaissance- African American arts
Motion pictures-– 90% came from Hollywood
Social PatternsChildren raised differently
– Strong father, loving mother– Freud’s Oedipus Complex– Parents began to take on both
roles
Education less strict– Girls and boys- same schools
Effects of the Great
Depression
Causes:Overproduction &
underconsumptionPlight of farmers
– Wartime production levels = Surplus
Speculation in Stock– Wall Street losses- economic &
psychological consequences• Doubt, fear replace optimism
BritainSeverely hurt- relied on foreign
trade1931 Coalition cabinet elected
(National Govt.)– High protective tariff– Regulate currency– Increase taxes– Lower interest (production)
Britain1937 unemployment rate cut in
half– Production at 1929 levels
Mood of discouragement persists
France1930 still agricultural
– Less dependent on foreign trade– Less impacted by Depression
Radicals wanted to end democracy and est. dictatorship– Popular Front- moderates,
socialists, communists
FrancePopular Front- pay increases,
reforms for workers– Unemployment remains high
Fascism
FascismPeople lost faith during Great
DepressionFascist promises:
– Revive economy– Restore National Pride– Punish those responsible for
economic hard time
Fascism
Ideology stressing nationalismInterests of the state more
important than the individualPower held by single leader or
small group of party membersReaction against Communism
– People more loyal to social class not nation
Enemy= Communism
SimilaritiesDictatorial one
man rule Individuals
denied rightsSupremacy of
state
DifferencesFascism- no
classless society– Aristocrats,
industrialist
Communism- Dictatorship of the Proletariat– internationalist
Italians Turn to FascismAfter WWI Italians felt defeated
– War causalities– Did not gain land promised
Food shortages, rising prices, unemployment, business failures
Peasants seize land,workers revoltSocialist, Communists groups
emerge– Another Bolshevik revolution?
Benito MussoliniTeacher of FascismHitler’s teacherNamed Fascism- root Roman
Fasces – Ax- symbol of power
Becomes Il Duce- leader of Italy
Benito MussoliniInitially a SocialistWWI organized Fascist partyWanted to bring back glory and
military strength of ancient Rome
Revive economy1922 Appointed PM by Victor
Emmanuel II (legal)
Mussolini’s Support
Business ownersGovt. officialsLandowners
– End strikes– End workers’
political power
Middleclass SoldiersWar Veterans
Mussolini’s PoliciesDemocracy weak – Dictatorship est.
(no political parties)– Use of secret police, censorship
All production into nationwide “syndicates” (State Corps)– Organized like corporations– Controlled wages, prices, working
hours (command capitalism)Farmers urged to use modern
methods
Policies continued…It became harder to leave
countrySingle men taxedJobs for women limitedBuilding families encouraged
Fascist StatesItaly (Mussolini)Germany (Hitler)Japan (Tojo)Spain (Franco)
– until 1970’s
Rise of Hitler
Weimar RepublicCreated 1919-under StresselmanRepublican constitutionParliamentary govt.
– Germans had little experience with democracy
– Democracy seen as weak– Germans used to strict rule
Weimar OppositionOpposed by left and rightCommunists wanted govt. like
RussiaGerman nationalists, military,
landowners, opposed govt.Industrialists feared govt.
takeover of industryPeople felt Republic betrayed
them by urging peace
Hitler’s BeginningsBorn Austria, 1889Adolph SnickelgrupperHS dropout
– Study art in Vienna
Vienna- Jews among intellectual, financial leaders– Beginning of hatred for Jews
Hitler Emerges…Served for Germany during WWI-
won Iron Cross– Wanted to overturn Treaty
Began as govt. spy (on Nazis)1920’s Helped Organized the NazisNAZI Army of Brown Shirts SA1923 Failed Beer Hall Putsch
– Take over Bavarian govt.– Hitler put in jail, writes Mein Kampf
Mein KampfDictated to Rudolf HessOutline of political viewsThemes:
– Racism (Jews were reason for German problems)
– Nationalism (Aryans were master race, lebenstraum)
Released from jail in 9 months
Why Hitler?Economic crisis
–People out of work–Hunger–Insecurity–Restlessness
Hitler gave people:–Enemy to hate–Cause to fight for
Hitler Gains SupportUsed violence and speechesLess wealthy- Hitler would protect
them from large industrialists, Communists
Unemployed-Hitler’s private army– Food, clothing, shelter, cause
Industrialists, bankers, landowners- liked stand against Communists, promise to rebuild Germany
Hitler Gains Power Jan. 30, 1933 Hitler made
chancellor by Hindenburg –Hoped to contain the Nazis
Feb. 27, 1933- Dutch communist Martinus van der Lubbe set fire to Reichstag
March 1933 Reichstag elections Nazi’s win 43% of vote–Reichstag passes Enabling Act-
Hitler given dictatorial power
Hitler’s Early Policies Trade unions bannedPolitical parties eliminatedArmy and secret police
– Brown Shirts (SA)- Hitler’s personal army (early 1920’s)
– Gestapo- secret state police – SS-Hitler’s body guard (1925)
Early Policies cont…Nuremberg Laws-Anti-Semitism- became official
govt. policyJews lost citizenship1933- Jews forbidden from
holding govt. jobs or owning businesses
Not flu flag, write, teach, bankers
Night of Long KnivesJune 30, 1934SS ordered to eliminate any
threats within the partyAs many as 1,000 killedViolence shocked people into
obediance
KristallnachtNight of broken glassCause: young Jew killed German
diplomat in Paris Nov 9-10, 1938- Nazis set fire to
synagogues in Germany, Austria, Sudetenland –Jewish home and stores looted–Many Jews killed or wounded,
1000’s arrested–Result- 1000’s of Jews flee
Nazi’s Rebuild Economy
Businesses aided– Public works programs– Arms industry secretly revived
Unemployment rate of 6 million reduced to 0
Propaganda used to increase support
Eastern EuropeDemocracies give way to
authoritarianism Authoritarianism- political system
stressing obedience to authorityNo tradition of democracy
–Countries lacked business and professional people (backbone of democracy)
Post-war problems blamed on democracy
59 Days
ChecksSprite Timelines ThursdayPicture EssayCompare Social Darwinism to MarxNature of French and German
YouthEconomic comparison of France
and the Netherlands
Italy and Germany’s
March to War
Fascist AggressionItalian Expansion
–Mussolini builds army–1935 Ethiopia invaded
• League of Nations denounces action and urges boycott of arms to Italy
Spanish Civil WarRepublican govt. replaced
monarch2 sides: (war between ideologies)
– Falangists (Fascists) under Franco– Republicans (anti-Fascists)
Hitler and Mussolini aid FascistsStalin and volunteers from US,
France, England aid Republicans1939- Franco becomes dictator
Fascist AggressionGerman rearmament and
expansion (Turning Point)– Weimar Govt. tried to change treaty
through diplomacy– Hitler vows to destroy treaty-
rebuilds military– 1936 Rhineland remilitarized– Hitler believed no action would be
taken• GB and France condemn, but take no
action
1936 Rome-Berlin AxisHitler’s strength leads to
agreement w/ MussoliniEurope come to rotate around
them
AppeasementGiving into other’s demands in
order to avoid conflictFollowed by GB and France
towards GermanyAfter WWI people wanted peace
at any price (ignored Hitler’s advances)
GB cut military spending- focus on economy
Why Appeasement?France needed help of GB to
take on HitlerMany in GB believed Treaty of
Versailles was too harshMany in GB believed Stalin and
Communism was more of a threat than Hitler
German AdvancesResult of appeasement- Hitler
continues to enlarge German territory
Self-determination- Bring German speaking together in Third Reich
1938 Anschluss- Union of Germany and Austria (Austria threatened with use of force)
Czechoslovakia- Hitler wanted the Sudetenland
Munich Peace AgreementIssue= Sudetenland (3 million
Germans live here)Mussolini, Chamberlain, Daladier
meet with Hitler– Give Hitler Sudetenland if he would
stop expansion– Student becomes teacher
Result- Hitler not satisfied and takes all of Czechoslovakia– Chamberlain “Peace in our time”
Beginning of War for
Germany
The Coming WarMarch 1939- Germany turn to
Poland to recover Polish Corridor– Hitler demands port of Danzig,
RR’s and highways through the corridor to East Prussia
Poland refuses demands– France and GB give support
The Coming War August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact-
– Distrust between France, GB, Russia prevented alliance
– Soviet Union agreed to let Germany invade Poland in return for land in Eastern Europe
The War BeginsSept. 1, 1939- Germany invades
PolandSept. 4, 1939- GB and France
declare war on Germany***WWII BEGINS***
The Sides
Allies–England–France–Poland–Later USA–Later USSR
Axis–Germany–Austria–Italy–USSR–Japan
Blitzkrieg in Eastern Europe Blitzkrieg- German style of
warfare consisting of quick, concentrated attacks on land and sea (reaction against WWI)
Sept. 27, 1939- Poland surrenders – Hitler and Stalin divide Poland
USSR sets up bases in Baltic States for invasion of Finland
Blitzkrieg in Western Europe“Phony War”- No real fighting
in winter of 1939-19401940 Germans begin advances
in Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
France establishes the Maginot Line- heavily defended forts along German, French border
State Social Science Standard
Yesterday10.8.2 Understand the role of
appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Today10.8.3 Identify and locate the Allied
and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions.
ESLRSAztecs Are ABLEA = Informed ChoicesB = Societal NormsL = Resolve ProblemsE = Listening Speaking
Analyze
Character Traits
Respect Compassion Justice
Invasion of FranceMaginot LineGermany attacks through Belgium
– Divides the Allies (Paris and coast)– Dunkirk- 300,000 Allies retreat, all
available vessels sent to rescue troops Mistake # 1
– **GB united and inspired against Hitler**
– Germans continue through France
France is Conquered June 10, 1940- Mussolini declares
war on FranceJune 14- Germans march on Paris
– France surrenders to save Paris from destruction
French sign armistice where Germany surrendered WWI– Germany occupied N. France– Puppet Govt. est in S. France= Vichy
Govt. (Petain’s govt.)
French Resistance
Free FrenchLed by C. de Gaulle Secret, underground resistance
Britain Holds Out Winston Churchill (PM)-
refuses to give in to HitlerAug 8, 1940- Battle of BritainOperation Sea LionDestroy RAFControl Air/Cross ChannelBritish Bomb BerlinHitler Turns to Cities
Battle of Britain“Blitz”- Britain bombed day
and nightRAF aided by radar- used to
spot enemy aircraftAllies broke German secret
codeRAF Rebuilds
Battle of BritainHitler Gives UpMistake # 2“ Never Have so Few done
so much for so many”NapoleonPhillip II
Eastern Front
Invasion of USSRJune 22 1941 Hitler invadesWhy USSR?
– Hates Communism – Land for German settlers– Grain for Germans– Oil, coal, iron ore for war effort
No Longer 2 FrontNapoleon
Seize of LeningradRussia initially devastated2 year siege, 3 million trapped
– 1 million die of disease and starvation
– First year: 2.5 million soldiers lost“Scorched-earth”- withdraw
from Germans destroying fields and equipment
Winter helps Russians win- troops from Siberia arrive
Battle of Stalin gradSpring/Summer 1942Strategic city in terms of north-
south transportationAugust 600 planes bomb city
– 40,000 Russians killed– Russians refuse to surrender
But Do leave a dead city
The Tide TurnsMarshal Zhukov plans counter-
attack–Encircle German army-Stalin
gradHitler refuses to let Germans
surrenderMistake # 3**Turning point in Eastern
Europe**–Soviets begin push toward Berlin
North African CampaignFirst year of war- Mussolini
works to est. control of Mediterranean
Libya (Italian colony) unsuccessfully invades Egypt trying to take control of Suez Canal (from GB)
Germany sends Afrika Corps led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to protect Libya
Africa cont…Rommel battles GB for more
than a year1942 GB sends Field Marshal
Bernard Montgomery to block Rommel’s advance to the Suez– El Alamein- retreating GB begins
counterattack– Rommel driven from Africa– First major British victory
Results in AfricaMay 1943- Allies held all N.
AfricaAllies control Suez CanalAfrica would serve as a base to
launch attacks into Southern Europe
Europe Under HitlerSize of Hitler’s Empire
– Atlantic to USSR– Norway to North Africa
Victories for the AlliesEnd of 1942- Allies on offensive
in Asia and EuropeNorth AfricaItaly attacked from North
AfricaJuly 1943- GB, US land in Sicily,
later in month Mussolini overthrown
Germany remains in Italy
Invasion of FranceGen. Eisenhower leads Allies
across English ChannelSecond Front to Help RussiaOperation OverlordJune 6, 1944 D-Day- Allies
land in Normandy
Invasion of France
–150,000 landed at 5 beaches–Omaha, Juno, Sword- major–Germans caught off guard –1 million Allied troops in
France within month–End of August- Paris freed–Free French join Allies
Defeat of GermanyFall 1944 Germans hopeless
– Soviets on East– US, GB on West
57 DaysChecksQuestions on Friday’s Essays?
Battle of the BulgeMid Dec. 1944Germans attack US soldiers at
German border near Belgium, Luxembourg
Germans break through linesUS holds key towns and roadsGermans halt offensive- ran out
of gas, unable to crush US
The EndJan. 1945- Allies take German
gainsApril 1945- US and Soviet
troops meet in Eastern EuropeApril 30,1945- Hitler commits
suicide in underground quarters in Berlin
May 8, 1945 VE Day- Germany surrenders unconditionally
WWII’s AftermathMost costly war in human
history– 50 million dead– 10 million die in concentration
camps– Homeless refugees– Vast areas of destruction
Germans and their Conquered
Germans took food, weapons, and art from conquered
Labor demanded from conquered– 7 million sent to labor camps in
Germany• Died of disease, hunger, exhaustion
– 5 million Russians taken• 3.5 million died
The HolocaustReinhard Heydrich- Himmler’s
deputy and chief planner of Nazi program to rid Europe of Jews– “The Final Solution to the Jewish
problem”- genocideHolocaust- systematic murder of
European Jews– Jews rounded up, put in cattle
cars and sent to death camps
Life in Death CampsMethods of killing:
– Gas chambers, torture, starvation, beatings
Medical experiments6 million Jews killedAuschwitz (Poland)- 2 million
died here
Resistance MovementsNazis did meet opposition
– Hit and run attacks on German forces
– Strikes, blowing up factories, underground newspapers, relaying info to Allies, rescuing prisoners
– “Govts. in exile”- govts. fled occupied countries
– Citizens escaped and joined GB
War Crime Trials Nazi leaders arrested and
charged with “crimes against humanity”
Nuremberg Trials- Nov. 1945– World learned of Nazi horrors– ½ of officers tried were sentenced
to death– Japanese officers also tried
Postwar Europe
Allies held 3 summits (meetings between top govt. officials) during the war– Tehran, Iran– Yalta, USSR– Potsdam, Germany
Tehran Conference
Nov. 1943Present- Churchill, Stalin, FDR
– “Big Three”
Plan- discuss war strategy for Europe– Normandy invasion planned
YaltaFeb 1945 the “Big Three” meetStalin agrees to free elections in
Soviet occupied Eastern Europe– Puppet govts. had already been est.
Stalin agrees to declare war on Japan when Germany defeated (for land in Asia)
United Nations developedDivision of Germany into temporary
occupation zones
PotsdamJuly 1945Present- Stalin, Churchill, and
TrumanStalin refuses to hold free
elections– It would be “anti-Soviet”
Disagreements over Eastern Europe would split Allies– Raise fears of another world war