THE ROAD TO WAR

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THE ROAD TO WAR

• HOW RUSSIA, ITALY, JAPAN AND GERMANY BROUGHT US
  TO WAR

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THE REVOLUTION OF MARCH 1917
Began spontaneously in March 1917 in
Petrograd War weariness, inflation and shortages
of food Nicholas ordered military to put down
riots, instead they joined. Government crumbles
after this March 15 Tsar Nicholas abdicates in
favor of his brother Revolution quickly spread
throughout Russia.
Russia March 1917
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A TEMPORARY FIX TO THE PROBLEM
AFTER THE ABDICATION DUMA (Russian Legislature)
POLITICAINS SET UP PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT START
MAKING PLANS FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM KEEP RUSSIA
IN THE WAR BIG MISTAKE LENIN AND BOLSHEVIKS WAIT
THEIR TURN IN THE WINGS
LENIN
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RUSSIAS NEW REGIME
LENIN IN SWITZERLAND AT TIME OF
REVOLUTION GERMANS HELP GET LENIN BACK IN
RUSSIA INTENSIFY REVOLUTION AND WEAKEN WAR EFFORT
Stalin
FOLLOWERS INCLUDED TROTSKY,AND STALIN WANTED END
TO WAR, LAND FOR PEASANTS OWNERSHIP OF FACTORIES
BY WORKERS
Trotsky
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LENIN STRIKES, TAKES CONTROL
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION STARTS LATE OCTOBER
1917 LENIN ORDERS TROOPS TO OVERTHROW PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT TROOPS LED BY TROTSKY CAPTURE WINTER
PALACE
BY NOV 7 LENIN IS IN CONTROL KILL ALL CAPTURED
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ESTABLISHED NEW GOVT ON NOV
9 WITH LENIN IN CHARGE
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STALIN'S SOVIET UNION
After Lenins death in 1924 Stalin takes
over Forces Soviets to take Great Leap
Forward Launches the first in a series of 5 year
plans to modernize agriculture and businesses
from ground up

• Collective farms meet with resistance
• Stalin punished resistant farmers by taking all
  or most of the food the produced millions
  starved more were ofrced off land or sent to work
  camps in Siberia
• Food shortages led to rationing

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Soviet Union as an Industrial Power
Industrialization was more successful Poured
money into industry hurts standard of living but
by 1940 the Soviets are an industrial
power. SOVIET PURGES political term for removing
enemies and undesirables (opponents of Stalin)
fake trials millions killed to purify USSR
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FASCISM
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MUSSOLINI INTRODUCES FASCISM
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WHAT IS FASCISM
COMES FROM THE ITALIAN TERM FASCIO MEANING UNION
OR LEAGUE WANTS TO HELP COUNTRY REGAIN PRIDE BY
GIVING IT A HEIGHTENED SENSE OF NATIONAL
PRIDE REJECTS LIBERAL IDEAS WANTED THE
DESTRUCTION OF ELECTION, LEGISLATURES AND OTHER
DEMOCRATIC IDEAS REJECTS COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM AS
TO INDIVIDUAL.
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MUSSOLINI CHANGES ITALY
FIRST OF THE DICTATORS OTHERS COPIED IDEAS BUT
DID NOT MAKE SAME MISTAKES POLITICAL PARTIES WERE
BANNED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS WERE
SENSORED EDUCATION WAS CONTROLLED MUSSOLINI
BATTLES TO IMPROVE ECONOMY MUSSOLINI WAS
POPULAR FOR A WHILE
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TEACHER AND THE PUPIL
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HITLER'S RISE TO POWER
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GERMANY INTRODUCES WEIMAR REPUBLIC
KAISER WILLIAM II ABDICATES UNDER THREAT OF
REVOLUTION. - NEW LEADERS SIGN ARMISTICE AND
LATER TREATY OF VERSAILLES

• 1919, NEW GERMAN GOVERNMENT DRAFTS CONSTITUTION
  IN WEIMAR
• CREATED DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT KNOWN AS THE WEIMAR
  REPUBLIC 1919-1933
• GOVERNMENT LED BY CHANCELLOR REICHSTAG
• BILL OF RIGHTS

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UNREST IN GERMANY
GERMANS OF ALL CLASSES BLAMED THE GOVERNMENT FOR
THE HATED VERSAILLES TREATY. MANY ACCUSED
MARXISTS AND JEWS FOR AN IMAGINARY CONSPIRACY TO
BETRAY GERMANY.
OUT OF CONTROL INFLATION RIDICULOUS REPARATIONS
PAYMENTS RECOVERY IS HELPED BY AMERICAN DAWES
PLAN STOPPED BY GREAT DEPRESSION GERMANY LOOKS TO
ENERGETIC LEADER NAMED ADOLF HITLER TO SAVE THEM
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HITLER FINDS A CALLING
DESPISES WEIMAR GOVT FIND HIS CALLING AS A
POLITICAN JOINS SMALL RIGHT WING GROUP CALLED
NAZI NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS HE WAS
MEMBER NUMBER 7 WITHIN A YEAR HE WAS THE LEADER
BY 1932 THERE WERE 17 MILLION NAZIS
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SUPPORT GROWS FOR NEW HITLER
FEB. 1920 2,000 PEOPLE LISTEN TO HITLER LAY OUT
HIS IDEAS OF NEW GERMANY INCLUDING EXPELING JEWS
HITLER READS THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF
ZION ANTI SEMITIC BOOK FULL OF LIES ALLOWS
HITLER TO BLAME JEWS FOR EVERYTHING
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IF AT FIRST YOU DONT SUCCEED TRY AGAIN
1923 HITLER TRYS TO TAKE POWER BEER HALL
PUTSCH THIS SILLY COUP FAILS AND HITLER IS
JAILED HE WRITES MEIN KAMPF MAIN THEME WAS
SOCIAL DARWINISM FELT GERMAN PEOPLE WERE RACIALLY
SUPERIOR MASTER RACE OR ARYANS VIEWED JEWS AS A
SEPARATE RACE
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HITLER LOOKS TO SEIZE POWER LEGALLY
USING ANTI SEMTISM AND THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES
AS CATALYSTS HITLER AND THE NAZIS GAIN A LARGE
FOLLOWING 1930 ELECTIONS WINS 18 OF THE VOTE
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IN 1932 HITLER RUNS FOR PRESIDENT AND WINS 30 OF
THE VOTE FORCING A RUNOFF ELECTION. VON
HINDENBERG GAIN PRESIDENCY GIVES CHANCELLORSHIP
TO HITLER FOR HIS SUPPORT. HITLER IS APPOINTED IN
1933. SUCCEEDS HINDENBURG UPON HIS DEATH IN 1934.
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