event greatly contributed to the global economic slowdown, specifically in Germany, shortly after the conclusion of the first World War
What is the Great Depression?
100
policy did most European nations adopt during the worldwide depression of the early 1930s that helped to give rise to the totalitarian governments in some countries such as Germany and Italy
What is appeasement?
100
Prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths that an invasion of Japan would cause.
What is dropping the atom bomb?
100
Britain's air force was able to defend the country form Germany's air force
What is Battle of Britain?
100
Ideas that were issued by President Wilson as a basis for a lasting peace
What are the 14 points?
200
Nations like Italy and Germany became fascist before World War II?
What is economic depression?
200
Using nationalism to establish warlike attitudes among their populations.
What is reason the leaders of Japan, Germany, and Italy made war more likely?
200
Hiroshima.
What is the first city where an atomic bomb was dropped?
200
In August of 1939, Germany signed a non-aggression pact with
What is Russia?
200
Becuase of this event Europe soon plunged into an economic depression
What is World War I
300
main reasons for massive inflation in Germany following World War I was
What is high reparations?
300
Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union have in common during the World War II era
What is a totalitarian government?
300
On June 6, 1944, a combined force of U.S., British, Canadian, and Free French soldiers landed in
What is France?
300
Germany's invasion of Poland
What is how did World War II start.
300
the rule by one person or a small committee
What is authoritarian?
400
The MOST significant effect of the Great Depression on Germany was that the economic instability led to
What is the rise of Adolph Hitler?
400
According to the Treaty of Versailles, what country was expected to pay for the damages in World War I
What is Germany?
400
European country lost control of Lebanon and Syria-their Middle East mandates-in the 1940s?
What is Britain?
400
to remove threat of future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
400
On May 7, 1915, a German submarine torpedoed and sank
What is the Lusitania.
500
In retaliation for Germany and Austria’s refusal to repay their loans to the United States, the United States Congress in 1930
What is passed a highly restrictive industrial protective tariff?
500
Before World War II began, Germany and Japan expand their influence because of their militaristic power. What does militaristic mean?
What is building up of armed forces
500
The Axis Powers in World War II included
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
500
The United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France
What is the countries who judged the Nuremberg Trials?
500
The United States Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles mainly because the treaty
What is included the Covenant of the League of Nations?