1930's
Signed in 1919, this treaty forced Germany to pay reparations to Britain and France for World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Extreme Nationalism, Militarism, and a Totalitarian Government are symbols of this type of government.
What is Fascism?
This was the deadliest battle in world history.
What was The Battle of Stalingrad?
The atomic bombing of these two Japanese cities during World War II marked the beginning of the nuclear age.
What was Hiroshimi and Nagasaki?
This US policy towards Europe was defined by a refusal to involve the nation in foreign affairs.
What is neutrality?
This policy of making concessions to maintain peace led Neville Chamberlain to cede Austria and the Sudetenland to Hitler.
What is Appeasement?
This Italian World War I veteran created Fascist governance.
This man murdered his rivals and took control of the USSR after Lenin's death.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
This battle was the turning point for World War II in the Pacific.
What was the Battle of Midway?
This military operation opened the invasion of Germany to two fronts and turned the tide of World War II.
What was D-Day
Woodrow Wilson created this international organization at the end of World War I, but it failed because the United States would not join it.
The League of Nations
The Nuremberg Laws, the Holocaust, and Kristallnacht are all examples of the Nazis blaming this ethnic minority for World War II.
Who were the Jewish Germans?
The name of this German offensive into Russia after the fall of Paris references this Holy Roman Emperor.
What was Operation Barbarossa?
This battleship still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
What is the USS Arizona?
This 1929 financial disaster destroyed the global economy and led to Mussolini and Hitler taking power.
What is the Great Depression?
This short lived group governed Germany until Hitler took control after the Reichstag Fire.
Who were the Weimar Republic?
The German invasion of this country was the start of World War II.
What was Poland?
Joseph Stalin ordered this state run policy to rapidly modernize the USSR.
What was the Five Year Plan?
The Japanese created this sphere of influence in order to extract resources and prevent international opposition.
What was the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
This female avatar represented the United States' industrial strength during World War II
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
Economic catastrophes resulting from World War I led to the rise of this type of government in Italy and Germany.
What is Fascism?
Which political parties opposed the Nazis or Communists in their respective countries?
None. Hitler and Stalin did not allow political opposition.
The alliance between the United States and the USSR during World War II devolved into the Cold War battle between these two ideologies.
What were Capitalism and Communism?
This event marked the end of Japanese Feudalism and the move towards modernization.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
The United States never committed genocide, but did intern this ethnic minority during World War II.
Who were the Japanese?