WW I
Two enemies pitted against each other?
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente.
Which organization, predecessor to UN?
League of Nations
During what years did WW II occur?
1939 - 1945
What two major countries by exact names fought it?
United States and the Soviet Union
What is nationalism? p.89
Feeling shared by a group of their importance and even superiority attached to a nation
Who was assassinated that triggered WW I? p.93
Archduke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire
Who was a lead supporter of the League but whose country did not join?
US President Wilson
What encouraged Hitler to expand his military and invasions? p.117
Absence of response to annexation of Czechoslovakia and more by US.
Which alliance led by the Soviet Union was against US- led NATO (Internet)
The Warsaw Pact
What was the Holocaust? p.124
Systematic extermination of millions of Jews by Hitler 1930s to 1945
When did World War I end? p.160? And am or pm?
November 11, at 11:00am. 1918
Name 3 countries, that invaded creating crisis for League, p.103, p.194.
Japan, Italy, Germany
What is isolationism? What country practiced it? p.118
Ignoring foreign issues and war -isolating. US
Potsdam conference was what? p.144
Determine borders of Europe post WWII
And event in 1940, that ended up leading to Germany's defeat? p.128
German invasion of Soviet Union
Treaty, formal end to WW I, & signed exactly where? p.100
Versailles treaty, Versailles, France
Members Ca, Br ___E____, Em_____ of J (internet)
Canada, British Empire, Empire of Japan
Which leaders were not fascists: Franco, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt and why not?
Churchill and Roosevelt led democracies
Father of US containment policy? What was it?
Keenan. Prevent USSR expanding communist/socialism influence without war
Country with border to USSR signed armistice with Soviet Union p.130
Finland
Region of Europe, contested partly over. p 92
Balkans
Why did the League fail? p.104
Great powers undermined it, nationalism and war triumphed
What partly led to rise of Nazism. Name 3
Versailles Treaty and reparations, Economic depression, extreme nationalism (fascism)
Where the unravelling of Soviet Empire began to crumble? p.169
Poland
Potsdam conference, why Truman negotiated hard with Stalin p.146
US only had devastating atomic weapon proven in bombing of Japan.