Causes of WWI
What event sparked WWI?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What type of warfare defined the Western Front?
Trench warfare
What year did WWI end?
1918
What global economic crisis helped lead to WWII?
Great Depression
What event brought the U.S. into WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What year did WWII end?
1945
What does M.A.I.N. stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What new vehicle helped break trench stalemates?
Tanks
What treaty officially ended WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
Who was the dictator of Germany?
Adolf Hitler
What was the turning point in Europe?
What we're the atomic bombs dropped on Japan?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Which alliance included Germany and Austria-Hungary?
Central Powers
Major disease caused in the trenches?
Trench foot
What organization was created to keep peace?
League of Nations
What policy allowed Hitler to expand without resistance?
Appeasement
What invasion began the liberation of Western Europe?
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
What organization replaces the League of Nations?
United Nations
Which country’s nationalism contributed to tensions in the Balkans?
Serbia
What was the area between trenches called?
No Man's Land
Which country was blamed for the war?
Germany
Munich Agreement
What country was the island-hopping strategy used against?
Japan
What genocide killed 6 million Jews?
Holocaust
What was the “blank check” given by Germany?
Germany's unconditional support to Astria-Hungary
What German submarines attacked allied ships?
U-boats
What U.S. president promoted the Fourteen Points?
Woodrow Wilson
What event officially started WWII?
Germany invading Poland (1939)
What was the turning point in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
What doctrine aimed to stop the spread of communism after WWII?
Containment