Warm Up I

• What is the most difficult thin you have overcome in your life?

• Write you answer on a post it, DO NOT put your name on it

• You will post your post-it anonymously on the poster paper

Causes

• What have we learned about the Japanese so far in this class? (Think Tom Cruise Movie)

• What were the problems with the Treaty of Versailles (that ended WWI)?

• How does the Great Depression affect the world?

Warm Up 2 Causes Review

• What were the 3 main causes we discussed last time to WWII• Discuss with your partner

Main Causes of WWII

3 Causes:1. Japanese Industrialization & Ambitions combined with tense relations with Western nations for power2. Failure of the Treaty of Versaille to provide for a reasonable peace that helped all nations.

-The German war guilt left serious animosity 3. The Great Depression leaves much of the modern world with serious economic problems looking for solutions.

- This causes political unrest and allows dictators to come to power

Agenda

• Warm Up & Review• Dictators & Causes • HW: Complete readings and questions on causes of WWII.

This will be turned in for 2x HW grades and you will be tested on it.

• Presentations • Just War Theory: Can we justify killing people in war?

Presentations (3 mins max)

• Japan Invades Manchuia• Mao Tze-tungs Long March • Hitler Become Chacellor of Germany • Spanish Civil War• Germany Invades Poland • Battle of Britain

Just War

• The Attach on Pearl Harbor!

Just War Theory

• When is Killing Justified? • By the end of this unit you will have to determine if the

actions that the US took during WWII were justified• Were they all justified or just some of them?• Did we commit any acts that make us as bad as our

enemies?• Did we ever lie about the motivations for war? • Did we live up to the idea in the Declaration of

Independence?

War

Warfare is precisely, and ultimately, about governance. War is a violent way for determining who gets to say what goes on in a given territory when peaceful means do not work, for example, regarding: who gets power, who gets wealth and resources, whose ideals prevail, who is a member and who is not, which laws get made, where the border rests,

The War, by Ken Burns

• 19:00-39:00

Fascism

• Created in Italy by Mussolini in the 1920’s • A totalitarian form of government that creates a religious

like fervor for the country and its leader. • People must “worship” the country• People are taught to persecute anyone who is different or

disagrees with the state • People are taught to fight for their country

Mussolini

• Italian leader who founded Fascism in Italy in order to reform then country

• Responded to World Wide Depression with Fascism • Allied with Hitler during WWII

Hitler

• Disaffected by Germanys loss and surrender during WWI• Rises to power and eliminates democractic government in

Germany • Copies Mussolini’s fascists philosophy • More to come….Mass Murdering Psychopath

Stalin

• Leader of Communist Russia in 1930’s & 40’s • Killed more people than Hitler! • Mass Murdering Psychopath • Lenin said of Stalin “If there is one person who should

not be in charge of Russia after I die, its Stalin. He’s not very smart and emotionally unstable”