WHAP UNIT 7.6 Causes of WWII

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What started WWII?

GRM invades PLN → UK & FRN declare war

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Adolf Hitler

Leader of Third Reich (Nazi Germany) who aggressively pursued expansionist policies, leading to WWII

  • National Socialist Party / Nazis: absorbed Aschluss (Austria) w/o resistance

  • Axis Powers: Shared hatred for communism

    • Rome-Berlin Axis: GRM + ITL

    • Anti-Comintern: GRM + JPN

  • GRM-Soviet Nonaggression Pact: Stalin = East Poland & Baltic states + Hitler = West Poland

  • Munich Agreement: League of Nations allowed annexation of ONLY Sudentenland, Czechoslovakia, but GRM invaded PLN for port of Danzig

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Scientific Racism

Mein Kampf: Hitler’s manifesto claimed Aryans (White Non-Jews) were the superior race

  • Reichstag: Burning staged & blamed on Jews

  • Nuremberg Laws: Discriminatory laws stated Jews aren’t citizens + can’t marry gentiles + Roma, Gay men, communists, disabled ppl, etc. pushed to margins (ghettoes, BUL, ROM)

  • Kristallnacht: Nazis kill/arrest Jews to concentration camps & destroy synagogues

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Appeasement

UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave into demands of GRM to promote peace (failed)

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Japan

Begins Asian WWII by expanding its empire through aggressive military conquests in China and the Pacific