__Unit+Eight+--The+Interwar+Period+&+World+War+II



Topics for study include:
 * T**his is the most interesting periods of the 20th century. The post-world war-one world has finally found peace in the decade of the 1920s. America, despite its rejection of becoming a member to the League of Nations (L of N), does become a major financial player in the global economy. Sadly, by the end of the decade depression hits the world which started in the USA. This spawns other events in places far away from the USA. For example, the depression negatively impacts Germany so much that the Germans elect Adolf Hitler to get them out of it. In Japan, the closure of the US market to Japanese goods leads them to developing interests in Manchuria and later in China. The League of Nations fails, and by 1939 the world is involved in its second global conflict of the 20th century.
 * 1) The League of Nations and its failures
 * 2) What is happening in Major Nations During the Interwar Period
 * 3) The causes of the Great Depression, and how its spread created conditions for the the rise of either one of the above ideologies.
 * 4) Steps to World War II
 * 5) Genocide
 * 6) The War
 * 7) The end of World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War