WWI
Russian Revolution
Rise of Dictators
WWII Causes
WWII Events
100
A state of armed conflict between nations
What is war?
100
Political, economic theory in which all property is held in common & classes abolished
What is communism?
100
A government with complete control of its citizens
What is totalitarian?
100
The Munich Agreement is the example of this policy of giving into an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding violence
What is appeasement?
100
The alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
Who are the "Axis Powers"?
200
The revengeful treaty that punished Germany following WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles
200
Founder of communist theory along with Friedrich Engels
Who is Karl Marx?
200
Information, often biased or misleading, used to promote a cause
What is propaganda?
200
The failure of this organization to keep the peace is pointed out as a cause of WWII
What is the League of Nations?
200
This feeling of hatred or hostility toward Jewish people led millions of people participating in or allowing the Holocaust
What is antisemitism?
300
The name of the Austro-Hungarian Duke whose assassination led to WWI
Who is Franz Ferdinand
300
In communist theory, this rich class will be overthrown by this poor class
What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
300
"My Struggle" in German, Hitler wrote this book in prison that revealed his vision for Germany's future
What is "Mein Kampf"?
300
The German invasion of Poland using their "blitzkrieg" or lightning war technique is a cause. It started on this date
What is September 1, 1939?
300
It's the name for the US government research project that developed the atomic bomb, AND the second Japanese city on which it was unleashed
What are The Manhattan Project and Nagasaki?
400
Military conflict in which nations mobilize their entire country's population and resources
What is a total war
400
The man who led the first successful communist revolution and the man who succeeded him as the leader of the USSR
Who are Lenin and Stalin?
400
His nickname & the political philosophy that glorifies the nation, war, and the nation's leader while allowing a wealthy class.
What are "Il Duce" & Fascism?
400
The Japanese invasions of this land of northern China in 1931 and the subsequent attack on mainland China in this year are sometimes pointed out as the real beginnings of WWII
What are Manchuria and 1937?
400
It's the German term for the "Night of Broken Glass" and the year that horrible event took place
What are "Kristallnacht" and 1938?
500
The Serbian nationalist who assassinated an Austro-Hungarian prince leading to WWI
Who is Gavrilo Princip
500
The factories, farms, industries and other large businesses of a nation or the land, labor and capital used to produce goods
What are the means of production?
500
The "Holodomor", Stalin's forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions, means this in Ukrainian
What is "Hunger-extermination"?
500
The twisting of the ideas of Wilson's "14 Point" peace plan into a treaty of hate and revenge by these two leaders of Great Britain and France led the world down the path toward war. (Name one)
Who are David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau?
500
It's the name of a person who cooperates with an invading enemy, and the Scandinavian nation that Vidkun Quisling was from (a name synonymous with the first term)
What are a collaborator and Norway?