Causes of WWI
Secret agreements between nations promising to defend each other in times of war
What is Alliances?
The Treaty that ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Name one piece of land Japan imperialized during the 1930s in order to gain natural resources for their industrialization.
What is : Nanjing, Korea, Manchuria, China, Vietnam, or Laos?
Allied troops made up of British, American and Canadian troops landed on Normandy Beach (France) on June 6, 1944, This signallying the beginning of the end.
What is D-Day?
In order to industrialize and have full control of the economy (command economy), communist Russia and China implemented these strategies
What is Five Year plans?
Ideology that emphasizes loyalty to a nation based on like culture, language, and religion
What is nationalism?
In order to achieve peace throughout the world and not have any more wars, President Wilson's 14 points included what provision?
What is the League of Nations?
This government was implemented in Germany after WWI, and unfortunately the German people did not trust the government and thus allowed Hitler to rise to power
Who is Napoleon Bonapart?
What is the Nuremberg Trials?
What is militarism?
Instead of having peace for all after World War I, France and Britain wanted to punish this country:
What is Germany?
Hitler used this belief to rally the German's together especially over all of their agreed dislike/hate of the government's acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles?
What is nationalism?
What is island hopping?
This type of thinking was already established in Europe for centuries, but Hitler used this same type to blame the Jews for not only losing WWI, but also to blame them for many things including: being an inferior race, but even to blame them for the potential of WWII?
What is anti-semitism?
policy of extending a country's power and influence by direct territorial acquisition by gaining political and econoimc control.
What is imperialism?
Due to having a new type of government, this country signed a peace treaty with Germany before any other country, and ended up losing some pieces of land
What is Russia/ Soviet Union?
In order to prevent a war, PM Chamberlain of Britain and the PM of France allowed Hitler to take parts of Czechoslovakia, aka "allowing Hitler to walk all over them."
What is appeasement?
These events not only led to VJ Day but also the beginning of the Cold War, which pitted what two now former allies during WWII against each other?
What is the US and the Soviet Union?
What event is known as the "Night of Broken Glass," where Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues and arrested or killed Jews in Germany?
What is Kristallnacht?
The event that was the straw that broke the camals back, that really ignited and started the Great War?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
In a vote of 49 to 35, this governing body did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles and therefore the US did not become part of the League of Nations
What is the US Senate?
Upset over the US refusing to sell oil to them Japan did this, which a naval officer considered "waking a sleeping giant" and was a turning point for the Allies because it brought the US into the war
What is Pearl Harbor?
Durign what meeting did the 'big 3" decide not only that there needed to be world organization to help prevent something like WWII from happening again "United Nations" but also that in order to prevent someone like Hitler from rising again Germany would be occupied by the Allied forces?
What is the Yalta Conference?
This group of nations not only conducted the Nuremberg Trials but also as Allies went on to be the founding members of the United Nations (each with a permanent seat on the Security Council).
Answer must have all countries correct (4 countries)
What are the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union/Russia, and France?