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What was the cause of the road to World War Two?

What was the cause of the road to World War Two?

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What was the cause of the road to World War Two?
Slowly at first and Aggression in Europe to 1939 then more aggressively, Hitler prepared the country for war as he also pursued NORWAY SWEDEN Under German control September 1, 1939 ESTONIA Under Italian control September 1, 1939 LATVIA North Sea Baltic LITHUANIA Maginot Line IRELAND DENMARK Sea Danzig territorial German concentration camps, 1939 GREAT BRITAIN Sachsenhausen expansion. A major NETH. POUSH CORRIDOR USSR GERMANY BELG. Buchenwald POLAND rearmament Azimuthal Epad Aa Wetion 250 RHINELAND LUX March 1936 SUDETENLAND September 191 Dachau 500 Miles CZECHOSLOVAKIA March 1939 (re-militarization) 250 S00 Klometers program began in 1935. The next ATLANTIC Mauthausen OCEAN FRANCE AUSTRIA SWITZ. March 1918 HUNGARY ROMANIA year, German forces YUGOSLAVIA Black Se entered the ITALY BULGARIA Rhineland, a heavily CORSICA SPAIN ALBANIA April 1939 industrialized area SARDINIA GREECE TURKEY Germany used to control before the Mediterrancan Sea SICILY end of World War I. Both these actions were in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. Many Germans saw Hitler's actions as brave and fulfilling a promise to take back Germany's pride. In 1938, Germany annexed (added on) independent Austria and the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia to its territory. On September 1, 1939, Germany unleashed a devastating attack on Poland, triggering the Second World War in Europe, as Britain and France declared war on Germany. Quickly defeating France, the Germans launched a destructive air war against Britain and in 1941 turned their war machine loose on the Soviet Union. By then, most of Europe was under Nazi control. ? PORTUGAL
Transcribed Image Text:Slowly at first and Aggression in Europe to 1939 then more aggressively, Hitler prepared the country for war as he also pursued NORWAY SWEDEN Under German control September 1, 1939 ESTONIA Under Italian control September 1, 1939 LATVIA North Sea Baltic LITHUANIA Maginot Line IRELAND DENMARK Sea Danzig territorial German concentration camps, 1939 GREAT BRITAIN Sachsenhausen expansion. A major NETH. POUSH CORRIDOR USSR GERMANY BELG. Buchenwald POLAND rearmament Azimuthal Epad Aa Wetion 250 RHINELAND LUX March 1936 SUDETENLAND September 191 Dachau 500 Miles CZECHOSLOVAKIA March 1939 (re-militarization) 250 S00 Klometers program began in 1935. The next ATLANTIC Mauthausen OCEAN FRANCE AUSTRIA SWITZ. March 1918 HUNGARY ROMANIA year, German forces YUGOSLAVIA Black Se entered the ITALY BULGARIA Rhineland, a heavily CORSICA SPAIN ALBANIA April 1939 industrialized area SARDINIA GREECE TURKEY Germany used to control before the Mediterrancan Sea SICILY end of World War I. Both these actions were in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. Many Germans saw Hitler's actions as brave and fulfilling a promise to take back Germany's pride. In 1938, Germany annexed (added on) independent Austria and the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia to its territory. On September 1, 1939, Germany unleashed a devastating attack on Poland, triggering the Second World War in Europe, as Britain and France declared war on Germany. Quickly defeating France, the Germans launched a destructive air war against Britain and in 1941 turned their war machine loose on the Soviet Union. By then, most of Europe was under Nazi control. ? PORTUGAL
Key The Road to War in Asia: apanese lands, 101 Land taken, 1931-33 Land taken, 1907-38 Land taken, 1940 USSR World War II began in Asia before it occurred in Europe. In the late 1920s and the 1930s, Japanese imperial ambitions mounted as the military became more powerful in Japan's political life with a rise in Japanese Manchuria (Manchukuo) Peking 400km KOREA PortArthur CHINA JAPAN Chunging nationalism. An initial e problem was the rise of Canton Chinese nationalism, FORMOSA which seemed to threaten Japan's sphere of influence in Manchuria, in northern China (acquired after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905). Acting independently of government authorities in Japan, units of the Japanese military seized control of Manchuria in 1931 and established a puppet state called Manchukuo. This action angered Western powers. In response, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations and separated from the Western Allies. Afterwards, Japan started to align more with future Axis power: Germany and Italy. By 1937, Japan led a full-scale attack on mainland China and escalated a bitter conflict that would last another eight years. French Indo-China Philippine Islands Caroline Islands World War Il in Asia had begun. As Japan's war against China intensified, the view of the world held by Japanese authorities and many ordinary people hardened. Increasingly, they felt isolated, surrounded, and threatened. A series of international agreements in the early 1920s caused Japan to have a smaller naval force than Britain or the United States. The anti-Japanese immigration policies in the United States also convinced some Japanese that racism prevented the West from acknowledging Japan as an equal power. The Japanese continually felt as if the West purposefully tried to weaken Japanese power. 1 Copyright: Achievement First. Unless otherwise noted, all of the content in this resource is licensed under a Creafive Commo BY) license Furthermore, Japan was quite dependent on foreign, especially American, sources of strategic industrial goods. By the late 1930s, some 73 percent of Japan's scrap iron, 60 percent of its imported machine tools, 80 percent of its oil, and about half of its copper came from the United States. However, the U.S. was becoming increasingly hostile to Japanese ambitions in Asia. Moreover, Western imperialist powers – the British, French, and Dutch – controlled resource-rich colonies in Southeast Asia. To growing numbers of Japanese, their national survival was at stake. Thus, in 1940-1941, Japan extended its military operations to the French, British, Dutch, and American colonies of Southeast Asia – Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, Indochina, and the Philippines – in an effort to acquire the resources that would free it from dependence on the West. In carving out this Pacific empire, the Japanese presented themselves as liberators and modernizers, creating an "Asia for Asians" and freeing their continent from European and American dominance. Experience soon showed that Japan was far more concerned with Asia's resources than with its liberation and that Japanese rule exceeded in brutality even that of the Europeans. The Road to War in Europe: If Japan was the dissatisfied power in Asia, Nazi Germany clearly occupied that role in Europe. Many Germans held deep resentments about their country's position in the international arena. To some historians, the origins of World War Il in Europe lie squarely in German aggression. If World War I was accidental and unintended, World War Il was deliberate and planned - perhaps even desired – by the German leadership and by Hitler in particular. War was central to the Nazi agenda in several ways. Nazism was born out of World War I, the hated treaty that ended it, and the disillusioned ex-soldiers who emerged from it. Furthermore, the celebration of war as a way to enable the rise of superior peoples was at the core of Nazi ideology. "Whoever would live must fight," Hitler declared. "Only in force lies the right of possession." He consistently stressed the importance for Germany of gaining lebensraum (living space) in the east, in the lands of Slavic Poland and Russia. Inevitably, this required war.
Transcribed Image Text:Key The Road to War in Asia: apanese lands, 101 Land taken, 1931-33 Land taken, 1907-38 Land taken, 1940 USSR World War II began in Asia before it occurred in Europe. In the late 1920s and the 1930s, Japanese imperial ambitions mounted as the military became more powerful in Japan's political life with a rise in Japanese Manchuria (Manchukuo) Peking 400km KOREA PortArthur CHINA JAPAN Chunging nationalism. An initial e problem was the rise of Canton Chinese nationalism, FORMOSA which seemed to threaten Japan's sphere of influence in Manchuria, in northern China (acquired after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905). Acting independently of government authorities in Japan, units of the Japanese military seized control of Manchuria in 1931 and established a puppet state called Manchukuo. This action angered Western powers. In response, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations and separated from the Western Allies. Afterwards, Japan started to align more with future Axis power: Germany and Italy. By 1937, Japan led a full-scale attack on mainland China and escalated a bitter conflict that would last another eight years. French Indo-China Philippine Islands Caroline Islands World War Il in Asia had begun. As Japan's war against China intensified, the view of the world held by Japanese authorities and many ordinary people hardened. Increasingly, they felt isolated, surrounded, and threatened. A series of international agreements in the early 1920s caused Japan to have a smaller naval force than Britain or the United States. The anti-Japanese immigration policies in the United States also convinced some Japanese that racism prevented the West from acknowledging Japan as an equal power. The Japanese continually felt as if the West purposefully tried to weaken Japanese power. 1 Copyright: Achievement First. Unless otherwise noted, all of the content in this resource is licensed under a Creafive Commo BY) license Furthermore, Japan was quite dependent on foreign, especially American, sources of strategic industrial goods. By the late 1930s, some 73 percent of Japan's scrap iron, 60 percent of its imported machine tools, 80 percent of its oil, and about half of its copper came from the United States. However, the U.S. was becoming increasingly hostile to Japanese ambitions in Asia. Moreover, Western imperialist powers – the British, French, and Dutch – controlled resource-rich colonies in Southeast Asia. To growing numbers of Japanese, their national survival was at stake. Thus, in 1940-1941, Japan extended its military operations to the French, British, Dutch, and American colonies of Southeast Asia – Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, Indochina, and the Philippines – in an effort to acquire the resources that would free it from dependence on the West. In carving out this Pacific empire, the Japanese presented themselves as liberators and modernizers, creating an "Asia for Asians" and freeing their continent from European and American dominance. Experience soon showed that Japan was far more concerned with Asia's resources than with its liberation and that Japanese rule exceeded in brutality even that of the Europeans. The Road to War in Europe: If Japan was the dissatisfied power in Asia, Nazi Germany clearly occupied that role in Europe. Many Germans held deep resentments about their country's position in the international arena. To some historians, the origins of World War Il in Europe lie squarely in German aggression. If World War I was accidental and unintended, World War Il was deliberate and planned - perhaps even desired – by the German leadership and by Hitler in particular. War was central to the Nazi agenda in several ways. Nazism was born out of World War I, the hated treaty that ended it, and the disillusioned ex-soldiers who emerged from it. Furthermore, the celebration of war as a way to enable the rise of superior peoples was at the core of Nazi ideology. "Whoever would live must fight," Hitler declared. "Only in force lies the right of possession." He consistently stressed the importance for Germany of gaining lebensraum (living space) in the east, in the lands of Slavic Poland and Russia. Inevitably, this required war.
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