Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of WWII
- Expansion
- Colonies
- Pacific War
- Aggressive foreign policy
- Failure of collective security
- Aggressive Nationalism
- Italy
- The Spanish Civil War led to a closer relationship
between the German and Italian dictators
- Germany
- Japan
- Rise of Fascism/Militarism
- Japan
- Militarism refers to the accepting belief in which military (army
or navy) should get full power of the country.
- Hideki Tojo – General that controlled all
aspects of Japans society
- Italy
- Mussolini seized power, taking advantage
of high unemployment, inflation and a
middle-class fear of Communism
- Germany
- Calling himself “Der Fuhrer” (the leader) he
promised to return Germany to its old glory
- Failure of appeasement
- Economic Instability
- The Great Depression 1929
- Dawes Plan
- Turns into political crisis
- War Debts
- Umemployment
- People moved to more rightist idelolgies
- Ideology
- Germany
- Idea of living space
- Hitler believed that for Germany
to thrive it needed more land at
the expense of her neighbors
- Failure of League of Nations
- Failure of collective security
- Manchurian Crisis
- Reveals league's weakness
- Abyssinian Crisis
- Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- Appeasement - meeting a dictator’s
demands in order to avoid another
major war.
- Munich Conference
- Munch Agreement Sept. 1938
- turned over the Sudetenland to
Germany
- The Non-agression Pact
- Signed August 1939
- Agreement between Hitler and Stalin
- Nonaggression Pact- stated that if either country became
involved in war, the other would remain neutral.