Aftermath of WWI
This treaty officially ended WWI and punished Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The decade after WWI known for economic boom and cultural change.
What are the Roaring Twenties?
Fascist dictator of Italy who came to power in 1922.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Germany invaded this country on September 1, 1939, starting WWII.
What is Poland?
This country did Germany invade on June 22, 1941, starting the Eastern Front.
What is the Soviet Union?
Germany was forced to accept this clause blaming them for the war.
What is the war guilt clause?
This U.S. amendment outlawed alcohol nationwide.
What is Prohibition?
German leader who rose to power in 1933 promising to restore national pride.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
The “lightning war” tactic used by Germany combining tanks, planes, and infantry.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Japan attacked this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This international organization was created to maintain peace but failed.
What is the League of Nations?
The worldwide economic disaster starting in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
Soviet dictator who ruled with fear and industrialized the USSR.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This country resisted Germany in the Battle of Britain (1940).
What is Britain?
After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. declared war on Japan and these two Axis powers declared war on the U.S.
What are Germany and Italy?
This economic burden was placed on Germany after WWI, causing massive debt and resentment.
What are reparations?
This natural disaster worsened the Great Depression for farmers in the U.S.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This political ideology glorifies the state, extreme nationalism, and obedience.
What is Fascism?
This massive evacuation in 1940 saved over 300,000 Allied soldiers from being captured by German forces in France.
What is Dunkirk?
This series of battles in the Soviet Union in late 1941–1942 marked the first major halt of the German advance into the USSR.
What is the Battle of Moscow?
This worldwide pandemic spread during and after WWI, killing millions and weakening societies.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program to recover from the Depression was called this.
What is the New Deal?
This agreement in 1938 allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in an attempt by Britain and France to avoid war.
What is the Munich Agreement?
During the early years of WWII, the U.S. stayed officially neutral but supported the Allies through this program that supplied weapons and aid.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This naval battle in June 1942 stopped Japan’s expansion in the Pacific and is considered a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Midway?