Definitions
This is the belief of a government that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
What is Militarism?
The three countries that made up the Triple Alliance
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
Germany had the reduce the size of this component of war
What is the military?
A type of bomb built during WWII that was more powerful than any built before it
What is the atomic bomb?
The political and economic struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is the Cold War?
This is the relationship or agreement formed between two countries that is mutually beneficial to both
What is an alliance?
The three countries that made up the Allied Powers
What are Great Britain, France, and Russia?
Germany had to pay this term due to damages that resulted from the war
What are reparations?
Germany's last major offensive maneuver during WWII
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The genocide of European Jews
What is the Holocaust?
The extreme pride in one's own country and the willingness as a result of this pride to do anything for said country
What is nationalism?
A poisonous gas used in chemical warfare
What is mustard gas?
This was something that Germany was forced to acknowledge
This is considered the turning point of WWII
A collection of treaties and protocols for the future that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.
What are the Geneva Conventions?
This is information, of a biased or misleading nature, that is used in order to promote a specific political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
Germany had to surrender colonies in these countries
What are Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean?
The three countries that were apart of the Axis Powers
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons.
What is disarmament?
A New form of warfare that appeared during WWI
What is trench warfare?
This was known as the fourteen points
This was another stipulation placed on Germany through the Treaty of Versailles
What is Germany could not manufacture weapons?
These four countries that made up the Allied Powers
This bill helped to aid U.S. veterans in attending college after World War II
What is the G.I. Bill?