Mrs. Ennis: East High School History Classes
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  • World History
    • Introduction to World History
    • Earth's Origins: Big Era 1 >
      • Evolution
    • Early Man: Big Era 2
    • Big Era 3: Farming, Growth, & Complex Societies
    • Big Era 4: Expanding Networks of Exchange
    • Religion >
      • The Crusades
      • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    • Ancient Greece
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    • Big Era 5: 300-1500 CE >
      • BE5: Mongols
      • The Plague
    • BE6: 1400-1800 Convergence >
      • Renaissance
      • Columbian Exchange & Triangle Trade
      • Genocide: Slave Trade, Great Dying, and Today
    • BE7: 1750-1914 Industrializaiton
    • BE8: 1900-1950 Years of Crisis
    • BE9: 1945-now Impact
    • World History Websites
  • Wisconsin Studies
    • Early Europeans in Wisconsin
    • Native American Experience >
      • Mascot Controversy
    • Settlers and Immigrants >
      • War of 1812
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  • Right Now
  • US History: 9 & 11
    • US History 9 >
      • Reconstruction
      • Immigration
      • US Industrial Revolution
      • Westward Expansion
      • Imperialism
      • Progressivism
      • World War I
      • Roaring '20s
      • The Great Depression
      • WWII
    • Modern US >
      • Immigration
      • Isolationism & Red Scare
      • JFK: Cuban Missile Crisis
      • Vietnam Conflict
      • Nixon Presidency >
        • Extra Credit
      • US History: Post WWII (old material) >
        • Cold War >
          • The Atomic Bomb
        • Kennedy >
          • Kennedy Assassination
        • Civil Rights
        • Counter Culture Unit >
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          • Extras
        • War in Vietnam Unit >
          • Class Work
          • Protests
          • Nigeria
        • Ford and Carter Presidencies
        • Ronald Reagan/1980s >
          • Work for Reagan Unit
          • 1980s Culture
  • Native American Student Association
  • September 11th
  • Suicide Prevention Month
  • Resources
    • College Resources

World War II

After the global economic downturn caused by the Great Depression, and still suffering from the devastation of WWI in Europe, many nations turned to authoritarian governments to revitalize their economies and national pride.  These countries included Japan, Germany, Italy, and Russia.  They sought to unify their nations under military control and expand their borders in order to gain access to natural resources and land.  Western democracies initially tried to avoid war, but were eventually forced to fight in the largest war in human history.

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