World History Pre-AP – Duez

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Chapter 24 and 26 : The West Between the Wars, 1919–1939 and World War II, 1939–
1945 Time: 3 Weeks
CH. 24: The peace settlements at the end of World War I combined with severe economic problems to produce
widespread discontent across Europe. Democratic rule in many states gave way to fascism, authoritarianism, and the
totalitarianism of Stalin and Hitler.
CH. 26: The German and Japanese occupations of neighboring countries led to a brutal war that took millions of lives.
Both countries were defeated, but not before the Nazis had killed millions of people in pursuit of Aryan domination of
Europe.
Chapter 24 • The peace settlement at the end of World War I left many nations unhappy and border
Section 1 disputes simmering throughout Europe. The League of Nations proved a weak
The Futile institution.
Search for
Stability & • Economic problems plagued France, Great Britain, and the German Weimar Republic.
Section 2 When Germany declared that it could not continue to pay reparations, France occupied
The Rise of one German region as a source of reparations. In the US prosperity ended with the
Dictatorial economic collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression.
Regimes
• The new American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pursued a policy of active
government intervention in the economy that came to be known as the New Deal.
• European democracies crumbled and were replaced by socialism, fascism, and
communism.
John Maynard Keynes totalitarian state Francisco Franco
deficit spending Benito Mussolini Joseph Stalin
Chapter 24 • Adolf Hitler, a failed student and artist, built up a small racist, anti-Semitic political
Sec. 3 & 4
party in Germany after World War I. Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch failed. In prison, he wrote
Hitler and
Nazi Mein Kampf—an account of his movement and his views. As democracy broke down,
Germany right-wing elites looked to Hitler for leadership.
& • In 1933 Hitler became chancellor. Amid constant chaos and conflict, Hitler used terror
Propaganda and repression to gain totalitarian control. Meanwhile, a massive rearmament program
put Germans back to work. Mass demonstrations and spectacles rallied Germans around
Hitler's policies.
• Hitler's Nuremberg Laws established official persecution of Jews. A more violent anti-
Semitic phase began in 1938 with a destructive rampage against Jews and the
deportation of thousands to concentration camps. Increasingly drastic steps barred Jews
from attending school, earning a living, or engaging in Nazi society.
• After World War I, radio and film became sources of entertainment as well as
propaganda tools. Hitler and the Nazis made wide use of both.
politburo fascism Heinrich Himmler
Reichstag New Economic Policy appeasement
Chapter 26 • Aggressive moves by Germany and Japan set the stage for World War II. Adolf Hitler
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began a massive military buildup and instituted a draft in violation of the Treaty of
The Path
and Course Versailles.
of the War • The German annexation of Austria alarmed France but did not shake Great Britain's
policy of appeasement. Appeasement of Germany peaked at a conference in Munich
where Hitler claimed he sought only one final territory, the Czech Sudetenland. This
soon proved false.
• When Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin and invaded Poland, Britain and
France declared war on Germany.
• Japanese expansion into Manchuria and northern China brought condemnation from the
League of Nations. While still at war with China, Japan launched a surprise attack on U.S.
and European colonies in Southeast Asia.
• German forces swept through northern Europe early in the war and set up the Vichy
government in France.
• German air attacks on Great Britain resulted in fierce British retaliation.
• In the east, harsh weather and a resolute Soviet Union defeated an invading German
army.
• The Japanese conquered the Pacific but miscalculated when they attacked the U.S. naval
base at Pearl Harbor.
 • By the end of 1943, the tide had turned against Germany, Italy, and Japan. After the D-
Day invasion of Normandy, the Allies liberated Paris and defeated Germany.

Chiang Kai-shek blitzkrieg Winston Churchill

partisan demilitarized Rhineland
Sudetenland Douglas MacArthur Harry S. Truman
Chapter 26 • To further their war effort and Hitler's plans for Aryan expansion, the Nazis forced
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millions of people to resettle as forced laborers. As part of the Nazis' Final Solution,
Holocaust
and Jews were locked into cramped, unsanitary ghettos or forced to dig their own mass
Aftermath of graves before being killed.
the War • The Nazis killed between five and six million Jews and nine to ten million non-Jews.
• The war caused 20 million civilian deaths.
• The United States, which did not fight the war on its own territory, sent its forces to fight
and produced much of the military equipment for the Allies.
• After the war, ideological conflict between the West and the Soviet Union resulted in the
Cold War.
genocide Albert Speer Reinhard Heydrich
collaborator Anne Frank Violette Szabo
Tehran Conference Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference
mobilization kamikaze General Hideki Tojo
WWII Poetry Assignment: DBQ for Chapter 24/26 is due on Monday, May
Due on Tuesday, May 17th 23rd.
You will choose a vocabulary Test on Chapter 24/26 will be on Monday, May
word, person, or place in Ch. 24 or 23rd.
26 and write a poem about it. We Final Exam Review will be Tuesday, Wednesday, and
will present them to the class. Thursday.

Final Exam Schedule:

Friday, May 27th:
5th 7:25-8:50, 6th 9:00-10:25, 7th 10:35-12:00

Monday, May 30th – Memorial Day – No School

Tuesday, May 31st :

1st 7:25-8:50, 2nd 9:00-10:25

Wednesday, June 1st:

3rd 7:25-8:50, 4th 9:00-10:25