Causes
1. state capitalism
2. use of violence, terror, and censorship
3. expansionist
4. no freedoms
What is Fascism?
1. German sustained bombing campaign
2. radar was used here
3. Churchill keeps civilian morale alive
The above describe this 1940-41 event
What is the Battle of Britain?
FDR & Churchill
No negotiated surrender for the Axis
What is the Casablanca Conference?
Removed from power following the Allied invasion of Sicily in the summer of 1943
Who is Mussolini?
1. overseas colonial rivalries
2. Anglo-German naval arms race
3. ethnic tensions in the Balkans
4. the "Tripwire" System
The above have THIS in common
What are long-term causes of the First World War?
Treaty of Versailles
economic problems (hyperinflation, Great Depression)
series of weak and unstable govts. post WWI
THE ABOVE HAVE THIS IN COMMON (be specific)
What is the rise of Nazism in Germany?
As a result of this WW2 event, the United Nations ratifies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What is the Holocaust?
FDR, Stalin, Churchill
Germany to be jointly occupied, demilitarized, and de-Nazified
Trials for suspected war criminals
USSR declare war on Japan once Germany surrenders
What is Yalta?
Prior to Dec 1941, believed the US should serve as the "arsenal of democracy" for those nations opposing the Axis powers
Who is FDR?
Following its collapse at the end of WWI, this former empire's Mideast territories were given as 'mandates' by the League of Nations to England and France
What is the Ottoman Empire?
act of aggression that officially begins WW2 in Europe
What is the German invasion of Poland?
1. Operation Overlord
2. Western Allies invade Normandy
3. Germany now trapped in a 2 front war
What is D-Day?
What is open a second front against Germany in Western Europe?
'We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, We shall never surrender'.
Who is Churchill?
In 1917, the Germans resume this war policy which has the eventual result of bringing the US into WWI
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
the Anschluss refers to the German annexation of this German-speaking country in 1936
What is Austria?
Operation Uranus here results in the Russian encirclement of the German army, turning point in Eastern Europe
What is Stalingrad?
At Potsdam, Germany in JULY 1945, this Axis power is given one last opportunity to surrender unconditionally
Who is Japan?
Reluctantly, this Allied leader once admitted: “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.”
Who is Stalin?
Forces China to open more ports to foreign trade, long-term result was the creation of spheres of influences by foreign countries in China
What are the Opium Wars?
In 1938, England and France appeased Hitler by allowing him to annex this German-speaking portion of Czechoslovakia
What is the Sudetenland?
At Nuremberg, high-ranking German officials were tried from crimes against this
What is humanity?
marks the end of the pretense of US neutrality between England and Germany
What is the passage of the Lend-Lease Agreement?
12 April 1945
Taken by Hitler as a sign the collapse of the Allied war effort was near
What is the death of FDR?
"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest."
–William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
The best term for this mentality during the nineteenth century
What is Social Darwinism?