WORLD WAR 2

CAuseS

• Treaty of Versailles
• Dictatorship
• Aggression
• Economic problems
• Nationalism

Causes (Cont.)

• Appeasement
• Spanish Civil War

Treaty of versailles

• Italy , Germany, Japan unhappy
• Not enough land
• Harsh punishments

dictatorship

• Facism
• Hitler, Hirohito, Mussolini, Stalin
• Axis Powers & Soviet

Aggression

• Nazi movement (Europe)
• Italy (Africa)
• Japan (China/Asia)

Economic promlems

• Great Depression
• WW1 Debt
• Lack of Resources

Nationalism

• Kamikaze
• Japanese Army
• Nazi

Appeasement

• Attempted prevention of WW2
• Tried to satisfy Hitler

spanish Civil war

• Franco (Facist)
• Italy and Germany Supported

Americas involvement

• Pearl Harbor
• Propaganda

Pearl harbor

• Japanese bombed U.S. 
• Act of War without declared war
• Propaganda 

Propaganda

• Encouraged Americans
• Nationalism
• War bonds, factories, joing army

Results

• America becomes superpower
• Democracy spread
• Solved many economic problems

Atomic/Nuclear weapons

• New technology
• Caused great damage
• Left lasting effect 
• Ended war

America Post-war

• Baby boom
• Unemployement down
• Great Depression over

Women at work

• Propaganda
• Poster supported women's work in factory

Iwo jima

• Japanese Airbase
• Held Japanese bombers
• Pacific Island
• Showed Japanese nationalism

Controversy of the atomic bomb (pros)

• Ended the war
• Caused less deaths than invading 

Controversy of the atomic bomb (cons)

• Killed many Japanese
• Left lasting effects
• Nuclear warfare introduced

Internment camps

• Interned Japanese-Americans 
• They were a "threat"
• Unfair treatment
• "Not-American"

Holocaust

• "Destruction caused by fire"
• Targeted Jews
• Concentration camps
• 6,000,000 Jews killed

Role of native americans

• Pearl Harbor influence
• Joined army 
• Fought for America
• American loyalty