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M.A.I.N. stands for these words
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Belgium
The act of blaming a person or group for something bad that has happened or someone else has done
Scapegoating
This many Jewish people died in the Holocaust
6 million
M.A.D. stands for these words
Mutually
Assured
Destruction
Domino effect
The final straw that brought the US into WWI
Germany tried to get Mexico to attack the US
After WWI totalitarian rules rose to power in these 5 countries
Germany
Italy
Soviet Union (Russia)
Japan
Spain
Jewish people were scapegoated at the end of WWI and blamed for this in Germany
The terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the economic downturn/unemployment
This war is called a "cold" war because of this
The armies of the US and the Soviet Union never battled each other
How the Industrial Revolution contributed to Militarism and outbreak of WWI
Mass production of more advanced weaponry
This event in 1914 was the spark that kicked off WWI
Name the five tiers of the Pyramid of Hate
Genocide
Bias Motivated Violence
Descrimination
Acts of Bias
Biased Attitudes
List at least 3 other groups who were targeted by Nazis in the Holocaust besides Jewish people
Roma (ethnic gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, queer people, black people, people with disabilities, political opponents, dissenting clergy, resistance fighters, prisoners of war, Slavic peoples, and artists whose opinions and works Hitler condemned
The US was opposed to the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union wanted to spread this around the world
Communism
When Europeans colonized Africa, they discovered they were unable to farm the same way in Central Africa as they were used to because of this
Different latitude lines
The Western Front of the war could be categorized as this kind of warfare the resulted in a multiple-year stalemate
Trench Warfare
Totalitarians use propaganda to do this:
Any of these suffice:
1. Dramatize the horrors of life under the old government
2. Promote a particular set of beliefs
3. Lie to their people
The country Hitler made an alliance with at the beginning of the war and then planned to turn on
Soviet Union
This is a doctrine of reciprocal deterrence
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
How nationalism differs from patriotism
Nationalism is at the expense of others
List at least 2 of the conditions imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles
Lost Territory (with high coal production)
Reduce their military size
Take blame for the war
Pay reparations to Allied Powers
Totalitarian dictators promise these two things:
1. a revolutionary break from the past
2. a future of plenty
List at least one thing Germany, Japan, and Italy had in common leading up to WWII
1. Extreme nationalism, and belief in racial superiority,
2. Hostile toward the allies (Britain, France, US),
3. Want to militarize and take over more territory
The US and Soviet Union got involved in as many as 100 conflicts classified as this around the world during the cold war
Proxy wars