Unit 12 by Alycia Hoots https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay By Alycia Hoots en-us 2018-04-11 00:33:16 UTC 2018-04-11 18:39:37 UTC hello@padlet.com alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250526059 The economic and political causes of World War II were;
  • Aggression by totalitarian powers (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 

]]> 2018-04-11 00:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250526059 alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250526225 Major events of WWII were;
• 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 
]]> 2018-04-11 00:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250526225 alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250526317 The major leaders of the war were;
  • 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 
]]> 2018-04-11 00:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250526317 alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250527145 The elements that lead to the Holocaust were;
  • 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 
]]> 2018-04-11 00:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250527145 Adolf Hitler alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250875246 2018-04-11 18:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250875246 Battle of Britain alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250875787 2018-04-11 18:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250875787 Concentration Camps alyciahoots1722 https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250877564 2018-04-11 18:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alyciahoots1722/zai5cqncilay/wish/250877564