Causes of War
Involves people having a lot of pride in their nation/country.
What is nationalism?
Negotiated and signed in 1919-1920.
What is Treaty of Versailles?
The totalitarian, fascist leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
What is Adolf Hitler?
Germany and the U.S.S.R. invaded this country on September 1, 1939.
What is Invasion of Poland?
Against Jewish beliefs.
What is Anti-Semitism
Involves countries building-up their armies in the hopes of making them stronger than that of their enemies.
What is militarism?
A meeting in Germany that involved the British and French leaders meeting with Hitler.
What is Munich Pact?
The soviet, totalitarian dictator.
What is Joseph Stalin?
"Lightening War"
What is blitzkrieg?
November 9 & 10, 1938, known as the "Night of Broken Glass".
What is Kristallnacht?
Part of Japan's attempt to gain territory that had resources.
What is Japanese Aggression in China?
Between Hitler and Stalin, stating that neither side would attack each other.
What is Non-Agression Pact?
The fascist, totalitarian Italian dictator who came to power in the early 1920's.
What is Benito Mussolini?
An air battle starting in the summer of 1940 that involved Germany attacking Great Britain.
What is Battle of Britain?
Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews and led to over 6 million Jews being killed.
What is "Final Solution"?
Extreme nationalism in with the nation comes first and individual liberty comes second.
What is fascism?
A set of laws that were designed to keep the U.S. out of war.
What is Neutrality Acts?
Leaders of Great Britain before and during the war.
What is Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill
A fight between the German and British navies throughout the war in which Germany attempted to prevent supplies from America reaching the allies.
What is Battle of Atlantic?
Deliberate, systematic killing of an entire population.
What is genocide?
A civil war that took place Spain during the 1930's.
What is Spanish Civil War?
A system in which the government almost completely controls all aspects of a society.
What is totalitarianism?
American president, from 1933 to 1945, who helped lead the U.S. to victory during WWII.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Japan attacked the U.S. on December 7, 1941.
What is Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Had prisoners crammed into wooden barracks, given little food, worked dusk to dawn, seven days a week.
What is concentration & death camps?