WORLD HISTORY II[世界历史II](PPT-80)精选.pptVIP

Totalitarian Governments of the 1930’s Soviet Union-USSR Joseph Stalin 5 year plans to speed industrialization Collectivization of farms Great Purge Italy Benito Mussolini Fascist party Restore the glory of Rome invasion of Ethiopia * Totalitarian Governments Japan Hirohito- emperor Hideki Tojo- military leader military took control of the government wanted to industrialize desire for raw materials caused invasion of China and Korea Germany Adolf Hitler( Mein Kempf) and the Nazi (National Socialist ) party Inflation and depression Anti Semitism Extreme nationalism targeted communist and Jews- blamed for loss of WWI * World War II (1939-1946) Aggression by totalitarian powers Nationalism Failure of Treaty of Versailles Weakness of League of Nations Appeasement Europe and US were isolationist and pacifist- wanted to prevent war * World War II Major events of War German invasion of Poland Fall of France Battle of Britain German invasion of Soviet Union Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor D-Day Atomic bomb dropped on Japan Major leaders Franklin Roosevelt-US President Harry Truman- President after death of FDR Eisenhower, MacArthur and Marshall- US Generals Winston Churchill- British Prime Minister * Holocaust Genocide Hitler’s attempt to eliminate the Jews based on his ideas of the Germans as a master race. Final Solution-concentration camps, extermination camps, gas chambers 6 million Jews killed other targets-Poles, Slavic people, Jehovah witnesses, Homosexuals, disabled * Other examples of genocide Armenian genocide by Turks of the Ottoman Empire after WWI Peasants, political opponents in the Soviet Union under Stalin The educated, artists, monks and minorities by Pol Pot in Cambodia Tutsi minority by Hutu in Rwanda Muslims and Croats by Bosnian Serbs in Yugoslavia * Outcomes of WWII European powers’ loss of empires 2 major powers- US and USSR War crimes trials in Nuremburg and Japan Division of Europe- Iron Curtain- allies of US and allies of USSr United Nations establ