WORLD WAR 2

By Emma Wolf and Kayla Sudbrink
March 13, 2014

THE EUROPEAN PEOPLE STRUGGLE

• Fascism
• Stalinism
• Unemployment
• The Great Depression
• Adolf Hitler

STRUGGLES: GREAT DEPRESSION

• Stock market crash in October 29,1929
• The great. Depression lasted from 1929-1939
• The stock market crash was known as Black Tuesday
• Unemployment rose to 25%, 33% in some countries
• WW2 brought jobs back to America

EUROPEAN STRUGGLES: ADOLF HITLER

• 1933-1945
• Hitler imprisoned, killed, and tortured over 6 million Jews
• This is a picture of one of the male concentration camps
• Jews would be sent to these camps to be tortured, experimented on, and starved
• Scientists like Albert Einstein fled to America in hopes for safety

HELPING AMERICA WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• Helped lessen the worst effects
• He help more people get employed
• He supplied shelters for workers

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

• 32nd President
• Only president to serve more than 8 years
• Famous speech "Day of Infamy" launched US into WW2
• Paralyzed waist down due to polio
• Signed the social security system into law

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER

• He was a frustrated artist, whom was rejected from art school
• Born April 20,1889 Austria-Hungary
• He transformed Germany into a strong nation after WW1
• He killed close to 40-60 million people

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RISE OF MUSSOLINI

• Prime Minister of Italy
• Fascist Dictator of Italy
• Allied with Hitler in WW2
• Formed the Axis power fought Americans and Europeans
• Hanged by his own people, along with his girlfriend

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RISE OF JOSEPH STALIN IN THE U.S.S.R

• Stalin signed 357 proscription list in 1937 which had 400 people killed
• His rise started in October after the revolution when tsar was taken out
• His policy was to grow communism
• He had a conflict with Leonard Trotsky p, who Stalin then had killed in 1940 in Mexico
• He killed all the main powers so the leadership was left to him

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HOW THESE EVENTS LED UP TO WW2

• In 1939 Hitler extended his army to Poland, along with Italy extended to Albania
• To protect its people Britain declared war on Germany
• Hitler devised plans for what he considered "Jewish Problem"
• The League of Nations failed to prevent outbreaks
• Hitler invaded countries like France, and attempted to invade Great Britain

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CITATIONS

• theatlantic.com
• history.com
• www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648813/World-War-II
• world-war-2.info/