World War I
Four M.A.I.N causes of World War I
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalist
Last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
Attempts by European nations to give Hitler land and territory (Sudetenland) to avoid another world war
Appeasement
Spark of World War II
Invasion of Poland
Germany's first major loss on the eastern front - violated the non-aggression pact with the Soviets
Stalingrad
Type of fighting during WW1 that prioritized defense and led to a stalemate on the western front
Trench Warfare
Ideology brought to Russia by Vladimir Lenin that appealed to peasants / working class with the idea of equal wealth distribution
Communism
In 1936, Hilter send military into this demilitarized zone.
Rhineland
Hitler's military strategy of quick and fast military strikes
Blitzkrieg
Major win in the Pacific by the U.S. against Japanese--turned the tide in the Pacific
Midway
Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princeps
Succeeded Lenin and ruled through terror, police brutality, and purges
Josef Stalin
Hitler's aim to expand territory to create "living space"
Lebensraum
Allied invasion landing on beaches in France to liberate western Europe from German control. Forced Hitler to fight a 2-front war.
D-Day
German counter attack in 1944
Battle of the Bulge
Woodrow Wilson's plan for plan for peace post World War I that was rejected by the other allies of the Triple Entente
14 Points
Lenin's right hand man who led the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
Leon Trotsky
Hitler's attempt to overthrow the government in 1923
Beer Hall Putsch
Event in 1941 that led the United States to enter World War II
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Union and take Moscow in 1941-1942.
Operation Barbarossa
Germany's initial plan to quickly win WWI and prevent two-front war
Schlieffen Plan
Treaty that took Russia out of World War I
Treaty of Brest-Livotsk
Hitler's annexing of Austria
Anschluss
Two Japanese cities bombed by the US
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Major German general known as the "Desert Fox"
Erwin Rommel