WII

• 1919: Treaty of versailles

  • Punishes Germany for WW1
  • Responsible for all debt
  • War guilt clause
  • No military
  • Weak weimar republic 
  • Loses land to France and Poland
• Within 20 year period of WWII: interwar periods
• 1929: Great depression beings, marked by American stock market crashing

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•  Totalitarianism: Exerts total power and control over everything, done through authoritarian rule (strict), through force, opposite of democracy
• Left wing: Liberal and Progressive

  Right wing: Conservative and Traditional
• Fascist system: Ultra right wing

  Communism: Ultra left wing
• Communism: Unification of worker, internationalists, classless society

  Fascism: Each group in place and function, nationalists, extreme loyalty, sexism, mass media

  Both (Communism & Fascism): Single party, Denial of one's rights, state supreme, non democratic 
• Hideki Tojo - Prime minister of Japan
• Emperor Hirito - head state of japan
• Japan Changed economy by industrialization = population expands
• Japan is being run by the military, nationalism
• Axis Powers: Japan, Germany, Italy 
• Appeasement Policy - Pacifying war by giving hitler what he wanted, did not work
• European theater - Hitler invades Poland 1939
• Pacific theater of war: Fighting taken place between US and Japan, pearl harbor
• Eastern Front: 

  Nazis VS USSR

  Part of European theater of war 

  Very savage

  MOre personal between Hitler and Stalin
• Western Front:

  Central and western Europe

  Belgium, France, netherland

  Part of European Theater war 
• Hitler suicides
• WWII not completely over Pearl harbor
• Agreement between Hitler and Stalin: Nazi Soviet Pact or non aggression pact = hitler to stalin
• Soviets are communist = Hitler hates