AMSCO AP World History 7.6, 7.7

7.6: Causes of World War II

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

The Path to War

• 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

Causes of WWII: Summary

• 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

7.7: Conducting WWII

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

Key Terms:

• Vichy

• Lend-Lease Act

• Battle of Britain

• Siege of Leningrad

• Pearl Harbor

• Battle of El Alamein

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of the Coral Sea

• Battle of Midway Island

• Guadalcanal island hopping

• D-Day

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of Kursk

• V-E Day

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• V-J Day

• Treaties

• Nonaggression Pact

• Destroyers-for-Bases Agreement

• Atlantic Charter

• Winston Churchill

• Erwin Rommel

• Douglas MacArthur

• blitzkrieg

• Luftwaffe

• aircraft carriers