the age of anxiety

2.  SWBAT compare the German, Italian, and
Japanese drives for empire

3.  What is the world like after WWI & before
WWII?

4.  Immediately after the war
 Countries want peace
 League of Nations
 Agree to disarm
 Not to attack each other
 Work together
 The US loaned more than 187 million dollars
 1929 US economy FAILED-the Great
Depression
 The whole world suffered

6.  Low key for a long time
 1895 war with China
 Took Taiwan
 1905 war with Russia
 1910 took over Korea
 WWI broke out
 Took German colonies in the Pacific
 1918 portions of Siberia and Manchuria

7.  Joined the league of Nations
 Entered into agreements with the West
 Disarm
 Japan refused to enter into agreements with
China
 Increased tension
 1929-economica hardships
 Radical nationalists and military leaders took
over the government
 Encroaching into Chinese territory

8.  Russia taken over by the Communists
 Lenin & Trotsky
 Lenin dies Trotsky was supposed to take over
 Stalin pushes in gets rid of Trotsky
 1922 country formally declared the
SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
 by 1930 the government began to rearm

9.  After WWI
 Suffered economically
 Wide spread political unrest
 Socialist party called for revolution
 Middle class afraid of communist revolution
 Industrial & Agricultural Strikes create more
division among the people

10.  Benito Mussolini is able to take power
 Created a Fascist dictatorship
 TOTALITARIAN government

11.  Before WWI
 Strong Imperialist Power
 WWI –depleted resources
 90% of the navy was gone
 75 % of its iron production was gone
 France occupied the industrial region of
Germany
 Refused to leave

12.  Reparations bill
 Paying for the war
 What document was that?
 Germany began to print money like crazy!
 The more you print the less its worth

13.  To pay for a loaf of bread
 1million people out of work in 1923
 5 million people unemployed by 1930

14.  There are also political problems

15.  The Nationalist Socialist German Workers
Party
 Founded by Hitler
 1923 proclaimed a new government
 Arrested for treason
 Sentenced to 5 years in prison
 Served a little more than a year

16.  Slowly but surely
 Nazi party members win elections
 German parliament
 By 1932 Nazi Party
 More than 1/3 of the seats in the Reichstag
 Germany also began to rearm

17.  Crippled world Economy
 Hunger for national identity
 A collection of monsters taking power
military dictatorships
 All Lead to the beginning of WWII

18.  What do military dictators want?
 DUH
 WAR!
 EMPIRE!
 CONQUEST!
 Eventually WORLD DOMINATION!!!!!!!

20.  The people wanted conquest
 Feared that if opposed
 People might dispose of him
 Japan ruled by military leaders with him at the
top

21.  Japan is taking Manchuria
 Part of China
 China had issues/didn’t want any problems
 What’s that called?
 Allowed Japan to govern in Manchuria
 Japan kept moving South into China

23.  Chinese and Japanese forces clash in Beijing
 From December to March
 Japanese troops massacred over 350,000
Chinese civilians
 Called the rape of Nanking
 Tens of millions of Chinese went homeless

29.  Wanted to create a NEW ROMAN EMPIRE
 Invades Ethiopia
 Invades Albania
 No genocide

30.  Wanted to rebuild Germany and build an
empire
 Takes Austria
 Invades the Rhineland
 Occupies Czechoslovakia
 Invades Poland
 Systematically killed over 3million Jewish
people