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Economic and political causes of World War II

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Economic and political causes of World War II

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• Aggression by the totalitarian powers of Germany,
Italy, Japan
• Nationalism
• Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
• Weakness of the League of Nations
• Appeasement
• Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in
Europe and the United States

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• German invasion of Poland
• Fall of France
• Battle of Britain
• German invasion of the Soviet Union
• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
• D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe)
• Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. president
• Harry Truman: U.S. president after death of
President Roosevelt
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: Allied commander in Europe
• Douglas MacArthur: U.S. general
• George C. Marshall: U.S. general
• Winston Churchill: British prime minister
• Joseph Stalin: Soviet dictator
• Adolf Hitler: Nazi dictator of Germany
• Hideki Tojo: Japanese general
• Hirohito: Emperor of Japan

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• Totalitarianism combined with
nationalism
• History of anti-Semitism
• Defeat in World War I and economic
depression blamed on German Jews
• Hitler’s belief in the master race
• Final solution: Extermination camps,
gas chambers

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• Armenians by leaders of the
Ottoman Empire
• Peasants, government and military
leaders, and members of the elite in
the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin
• Artists, technicians, former
government officials, monks,
minorities, and other educated
individuals by Pol Pot in Cambodia
• Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda

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(Day of Days) June 6, 1944; Allied forces landed in Normandy, France to begin a massive offensive against the Germans in the occupied territory of Europe.

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the American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan.

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1939; Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them.

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the systematic extermination of millions of European Jews, as well as Roma, Slavs, intellectuals, homosexuals, and political dissidents, by the Nazis and their allies during World War II.

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American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe.