AMSCO AP World History 7.6, 7.7

Essential Question: What were the causes and consequences of World War II?

Adolf Hitler- Nazi leader, held extreme views on the Aryan Race which led him to conduct the persecution of Jewish people and other minorities
* Promoted ultranationalism and scientific racism
* advanced extreme Anti-Semitism
Rise of Nazism
  * Weimar Republic- new German gov. that rose to power after WWI defeat in 1918. Became unpopular with the people b/c it appeared weak with no army
  * Lots of unemployment after the war ended
  * Nazis- National Socialist German Worker’s Party
  * Nazis came to power legally in 1932
  * Paul von Hindenburg, Nazi president, elected Hitler chancellor, and Hitler rose to power in 1934 after Hindenburg’s death
Nuremberg Laws
* forbade marriage between Jewish people and gentiles (non Jewish people)
* stripped Jews of citizenship
Axis Powers
* composed of Facist Italy, Rome-Berlin Axis, and Japan
Treaty of Versailles was broken by Hitler by creating an army for Germany

Diplomatic
  * The imbalance of the Treaty of Versailles
  * failure of appeasement (Germans did not pay)
  * Failure of the League of Nations
Economic
* Global Depression
* The Treaty of Versailles
Political
* Japan’s militarism
* Germany’s militarism and the rise of Hitler

Essential Question: What similarities and differences were there in the methods governments used to conduct war?

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