1. Here it comes again!

2. 
 Japan, Germany, and Italy displayed militaristic
aggression against other countries. Other countries
and the League of Nations did little to stop them.
 Frustration with the Treaty of Versailles
The Causes - Overview

3. 
 Italy was extremely upset
that they did not get lots
of money and large
amounts of land for
joining the Allies in World
War I, like originally
promised.
 Why didn’t they get what
they were promised?
Italian Discontent

4. 
 Germany was very upset it was blamed for World
War I. Why was it blamed?
 Reparations hurt the already weakened German
economy. This led to a worsened depression in
Germany than elsewhere. Why have we mentioned
this for the last two sections?
German Anger

5. 
Three Militaristic
Countries
Germany, Japan, and Italy began building their armies.
Once their armies were armies were strong, they began to
use them!
 Mussolini ordered an
invasion of Ethiopia in
1935.
 Hitler sent troops to the
Rhineland, the border of
France and Germany.
Japan invaded
Manchuria and
China!

6. 
The League of Nations?
DID
NOTHING
BUT FUSS!!!

7. 
The World’s Axis
 Italy and Germany
supported a fascist,
General Franco, as he
took over Spain. Much
like Italy during World
War I, though, he didn’t
help them during World
War II!
 In 1936, Germany, Japan,
and Italy formed the Axis
Alliance. What is an axis
(or axle?)

8. 
What about US?
 The US became an isolationist (what is that again?)
country again.
 Passed a series of Neutrality Acts, designed to keep
Americans from selling weapons or loaning money
to countries at war. We knew what was coming in
other words.

9. 
And the other Allies?
 Britain and France hoped
they could appease (give
stuff to get people to do
what you want them to)
Hitler and prevent the
coming war.
 Hitler took advantage of
this and took the
Rhineland, Austria, the
Sudetenland, and finally
all of Czechoslovakia with
the Allies’ blessings.

10. 
The Powder Keg
Reignites
 World War II officially begins when Hitler (and the
Soviet Union!) invades Poland in September of 1939.
 Britain and France (Poland’s allies) declared war on
Germany, finally abandoning appeasement.