Unit 12 Padlet by DPalumbo1 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa Unit 12 Padlet en-us 2018-04-26 02:33:52 UTC 2025-12-28 02:36:15 UTC hello@padlet.com What were the causes of WorldWar II? dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255490792  Economic and political causes of World War II • 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 ]]> 2018-04-26 02:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255490792 What were the major events ofWorld War II? dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491322  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 ]]> 2018-04-26 02:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491322 Who were the major leaders ofWorld War II? dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491395  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 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 ]]> 2018-04-26 02:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491395 Why did the Holocaust occur? dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491464  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 ]]> 2018-04-26 02:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491464 What are other examples of genocide in the twentieth century? dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491543  Other examples of genocide • 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 ]]> 2018-04-26 02:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491543 Axis Power dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491625 Italy, Japan, Germany]]> 2018-04-26 02:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491625 Luftwaffe dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491865 German Airforce]]> 2018-04-26 02:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491865 Maquis dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491932 French Freedom fighters]]> 2018-04-26 02:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255491932 Holocaust dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255492059 Mass slaughter of jews]]> 2018-04-26 02:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255492059 Big Three dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255492193 Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt]]> 2018-04-26 02:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255492193 dominicpalumbo1735 https://padlet.com/dominicpalumbo1735/y7c5mtsx1wsa/wish/255492509
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