ORIGINS OF WWII

How did a clash of ideologies lead to a global conflict?

POLITICAL IDEOLOGYPOWER TO THE PEOPLEINDIVIDUAL RIGHTS PROTECTED LIMITS ON GOVERNMENT POWER/HIGHER LAW

Democracy

• A form of government in which people choose leaders by voting.

Republic

• A form of government with elected representatives (people chose/voted for them) and an

• Elected leaders (such as a president) rather than a king or queen.

• Citizens 18 years and older may vote/choose representatives they believe will create and pass laws that protect the people and keep the government running. – Elected officials– Bill of Rights

THE UNITED STATES

ECONOMIC IDEOLOGYCAPITALISM

A way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil,

factories, ships, etc…) are owned by individual people and companies.

Free Enterprise/Business Competition

The United States is a capitalist society.

COMMUNITY NEEDS OVER

INDIVIDUAL NEEDS

Socialism• A way of organizing a

society (economically)in which major industries are owned and controlled by the public/worker controlled rather than by individual people and companies.

• Collectivism: all people should have what they need

Communism• Workers overthrow ruling

class• A way of organizing a society

in which the government (workers)owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc…) and there is NO privately owned property.

• All religion abolished

How might the different ideologies described cause conflict between countries or what do you already know about the clash between these ideologies?

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• German economy in a depression.– Treaty of Versailles (end of WWI)

forced them to pay war reparations

• Adolf Hitler rearms Germany/rebuilds military. Air Force and required military service.– Violation of Treaty of Versailles

• German people hated war-guilt clause which blamed them for WWI.

• Increased Nationalism– loyalty and devotion to a nation.

Placing emphasis on the promotion of one’s own culture and interests above other nations. Extreme nationalism can cause hatred between countries.

GERMANY AFTER WWI

DICTATORSHIPS: RULE BY ONE

• Soviet Union: Communism

• Italy: Fascism• Germany: Nazism• Japan: Militarism

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organizerLens: What is the

ideology of each country?

GERMAN AGGRESSION

• Ideology of : Expansion and occupation of the Rhineland

THEN…• Crossed into Austria

without oppositionTHEN…

• Hitler wants to take over Czechoslovakia

FOREIGN POLICY APPEASEMENT

• Appeasement: Yielding to the enemy’s demands in order to maintain peace.

• France and Great Britain – try to prevent

another conflict with Germany.

• Munich Pact: Chamberlain (Great Britain) and Hitler. “Last territorial demand.” Hitler claims to be satisfied