Dates
Definitions
Causes
Events
Consequences
100
December 7, 1941
What is when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
100
Pride in one's country, like the Fourth of July.
What is Nationalism?
100
Japan wants land and resources like iron.
What is why Japan attacks China?
100
What is the fighting like?
What is constant warfare, danger, panic, fear, and anger?
100
Two countries which surrender to the Allies.
What are Japan and Germany (Italy and a few other countries are also acceptable).
200
1945
What is when Japan surrenders?
200
Dictatorship
What is when one person decides what happens in a country?
200
Oil, rubber, iron, weapons, etc.
What are supplies necessary to fight a war.
200
The systematic killing of 12 million people because of their "undesirable traits", including Jews, Roma, Homosexuals, and Dissenters.
What is the Holocaust?
200
Organization formed to promote international cooperation and justice.
What is the United Nations?
300
The year Japan attacked China
What is 1937
300
Capitalism
What is a free market, which decides prices.
300
The U.S. colony that was between Japan and the Dutch East Indies
What are the Philippines?
300
New technologies (advances from World War II) used to fight on land and in the air.
What are tanks and airplanes?
300
African and southeast Asian countries gaining independence from European powers and ruling themselves, during the 1950s and '60s.
What is decolonization?
400
The year Germany invades Poland
What is 1939?
400
A government controlled market, where the prices are set by the government.
What is Socialism
400
The resources Japan wanted from the Dutch East Indies. Without them, Japan could not fight a war.
What are oil and rubber?
400
"Wonder drug" which helped prevent hundreds of thousands of people from dying of infections during the war.
What are antibiotics (Penicillin, sulfa drugs, etc.)
400
A weapon roughly 1000x more powerful pound for pound than TNT.
What is an atomic bomb/nuclear weapon.
500
The year the Soviet Union is invaded by Germany.
What is 1941?
500
Propaganda
What is an ad or other media meant to encourage a certain opinion.
500
The desire for more land, so that the German race could grow into it.
What is "Lebensraum" living room. Eugenics is also acceptable.
500
Technology used to "see" planes and ships from further away than was possible by the naked eye.
What is radar?
500
Ideological "war" between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasts until 1991.
What is the Cold War?
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