https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28 en-us 2018-04-14 23:56:12 UTC 2025-11-06 11:02:42 UTC hello@padlet.com nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832106 Economic and political causes of World War II 
• Aggression by totalitarian power(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 ]]> 2018-04-15 00:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832106 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832216 Major events of the war (1939-1945) 
• 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 ]]> 2018-04-15 00:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832216 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832286 Major leaders of the war 
• 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 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 ]]> 2018-04-15 00:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832286 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832351 There had been a climate of hatred against Jews in Europe and Russia for centuries. Elements leading to the Holocaust 
• 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]]> 2018-04-15 00:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832351 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832464 Examples of other genocides 
• Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire 
• Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite in the Soviet Union by  Joseph Stalin  
• The educated, artists, technicians, former government officials, monks, and minorities by Pol Pot in Cambodia 
• Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda]]> 2018-04-15 00:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832464 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832500 1. Annex: to incorporate (territory) into the domain of a city, country, or state
2. Axis Powers: a group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in World War II, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia
3. Allied Powers: the main Allied powers were Great Britain, The United States, China, and the Soviet Union. The leaders of the Allies were Franklin Roosevelt (the United States), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (the Soviet Union)
4. Hideki Tojo: Japanese army officer and prime minister of Japan (1941-1944) who ruled as a dictator during World War II and was executed as a war criminal.
5. Holocaust: was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews]]> 2018-04-15 00:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832500 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832907 2018-04-15 00:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832907 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832921 2018-04-15 00:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832921 nayelir043 https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832933 2018-04-15 00:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelir043/fzc2npdkna28/wish/251832933