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World War II
World War II
World War II
World War II
Factors That Led To The World War II
Treaty of Versailles
Germans did:
Economic Depression
Late 1920
Rise of Fascism
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Germany’s Militarism
Hitler
Failure of Appeasement
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has no capacity of preventing military aggression and invasion such
as Mussolini’s annexation of Ethiopia and Japan’s annexation of
Manchuria in China
Its failure to address the said problem led to the outbreak of World
War II
Japan’s Militarism
Chinese asked for help from the league of nations since Japan
continues to occupy China and Korea
Japanese sensed that the United States military was a threat to their
expansion so Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December
1941
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
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January 1933: Nazi rose into power in Germany. They believed and
introduced a new social order that the “Aryans”, the Germans were
of “superior race” and that other races, particularly the Jews, “were
inferior.”
Kristallnacht
Jews were also prohibited from running and owning businesses and
even encouraged to live outside Germany
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The Final Solution
the action was backed up by Hitler’s ideas that there was the need
to eliminate inferior races, like the Jews, in order to protect the
Aryan race.
The largest death camp was built in Auschwitz, Poland where Jews
were transported
1/3 of the Jews were sent to labor camp, wherein they were asked
to work to death or staved to death
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