Events Leading up to WW2

  • Militarism

    Increase in military influence on policy making.
  • Anti-Communism

    developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and reaching global dimensions during the Cold War.
  • Rise of Hitler and Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler never held a regular job and aside from his time in World War I, led a lazy lifestyle, from his brooding teenage days in Linz through years spent in idleness and poverty in Vienna. But after joining the German Workers' Party in 1919 at age thirty, Hitler immediately began a frenzied effort to make it succeed.
  • Treaty of versailles

    It was one of the peace treatys at the end of WW1.
  • Rise of Italian Facism

    It started in Italy.It was the desire to restore and expand Itallian Territories.
  • Nationalism

  • Great Depression

    the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It began soon after the stock market crash
  • U.S. Isolatioism

    United States took measures to avoid political and military conflicts across the oceans, it continued to expand economically and protect its interests in Latin America.
  • Japanese Expansioism

    with the invasion of Manchuria and continued in 1937 with a brutal attack on China.
  • Appeasement

    Foreign policy of the British Prime Ministers Ramsay Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939.