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The Gathering Storm - WWII - Coggle Diagram
The Gathering Storm - WWII
League of Nations
Aimed to resolve probelms through diplomacy
Did nothing about Manchuria
USA denied to be a part of it
Did nothing about Abyssinia
Germany
Hyperinflation
A lot of territory lost
Reparations due
Adolf Hitler
Based his rule on democracy and joined the Nazi party
Spent a lot of money on roads
Expanded the army
Hated the Jews
The Stock Market crash headstarted the Nazi party's popularity and all pther parties including the communist party were repressed
Liked the idea of Facism and sided with it
Weimar Republic
Reichstag
Hindenberg - President until 1934
Italy
Benitto Mussolini - leader
Invaded Abyssinia
Wanted to recreate the Roman Empire
Homeland of Facism
Japan
Signed up for the League of Nations
Treated their ruler as a god
Invaded Manchuria as a target for a lot of resources
USA
Jazz Age
Reduced its military
Economic problems
Woodrow Wilson - 28th president - denied LoN membership
FDR - 32nd president
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin - leader
Ruled by Communism
Proposed alliance with Britain and France
France
Suffered a lot of losses in WWI
Manpower shortage
Defensive mentality - fortifications
Threatened to declare war on Germany if Czechoslovakia was invaded
Spain
Nationalist movements
Francisco Franco - leader of Nationalist forces
Civil war
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain - allegedly made peace with Germany by giving them Sudetenland
Threatened to declare war on Germany if Czechoslovakia was invaded