WW2

          In the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin was the leader. Italy was being controlled by Benito Mussolini. Hideki Jojo was in charge of Japan. The president of the U.S. after the WW1 was Franklin D. Roosevelt. All the leaders agreed on not wanting another war.
        Italy and Germany were extreme nationalist. They  wanted militaristic expansion they were also anti-Soviet.


The Nazis leader Adolf Hitler

       After the war the National Socialist German Worker's Party people also known it as the Nazi Party started to take over Europe. Adolf Hitler was a powerful speaker that later became the leader of the group promised Germany that he would lead them out of chaos.
        After WW1 the Great Depression started. With  the Great Depression a lot of the men in Germany started to get unemployed. This helped the Nazis gain power. It later help them convince  those men to join their army. People were desperate that they turned to Hitler for help and they turned him into the chancellor. From their it was easier for to take over Germany.
         The Leaguer of Nations was setup after WW1 to help prevent world wars later failed. Around 1935 Hitler got out of the League of Nations and started to violate the treaties they once signed. The first treaty broken was the Treaty of Versailles by creating his own army. When he started to take over Ethiopia with the help of Italian soldiers the League of Nations didn't do anything to stop them. Later they didn't give them any money but that also didn't do anything with Italy.
          After the WW1 the U.S. was so scared and alarmed with the problems going that they didn't want to get involved incase that turned in to a war. They also passed the Neutrality because they didn't want outsiders to be coming in the U.S. President Roosevelt was against isolationism so he tried to help China. When isolationism newspapers accused the president that he was leading the U.S. into another war he backed out from helping anyone.

This shows the places Hitler took over

          Hitler than started to take over Europe little by little. His first move was toward Austria. One day he just went to Austria and proposed that they would unify. They agreed and there was no war. His next move was for Czechoslovakia. He accused them of abusing the Sudeten Germans. The Czechs were protected by France and Great Britain until war was inevitable and Hitler decided to sign the Munich Agreement. It stated that Germany wouldn't invade another country besides the Czechs. His next move to take over Germany was to take over Poland. He lied that the Germans in Poland were mistreated and needed his protection. He signed a non-aggression pact with Poland.
          Hitler invaded Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, France, Denmark, the Netherlands(Holland), Belgium, and the Soviet Union.
          Germany's position in the map gave them an advantage to take over the countries they took. They are placed in an edge so they can see all their opponents and not worry of getting attacked.
          Winston Churchill was the prime minister's rival in Great Britain. He didn't agree with the prime minister because he thought the policy was just an appeasement and they would then still go to war. He had said "We have passed an awful milestone in our history ... And do not suppose that is the end..."