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What are some factors that the treaty of versailles had?

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  • put the blame for the war on Germany
  • broke up the austrian hungarian empire and formed new countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia
  • Forced Germany to decrease their army
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What were the problems in Europe after world war one?

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Economic: people were jobless
Political: weak governments fear of jew communists
Social: unrest people look for a leader

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What is a Dictatorship?

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Rule by a single person

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What is Totalitarianism?

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A single person controls everything

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What is Fascism ?

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Autocratic rule/ stresses Nationalism

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What is Socialism?

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The state owns property

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What is Communism?

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The community ownership

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What is Appeasement?

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giving into others demands

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What does it mean to be Belligerent?

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aggressive or involved in a war

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who started the first Totalitarian State?

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Joseph Stalin

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who was Joseph Stalin?

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The communist leader of Russia

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Who was Mussolini?

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The Fascist leader of Italy

stretches nationalism through being aggressive

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Where was Militarism and Imperialism strong?

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Japan

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what does Adolf Hitler wanna accomplish?

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He wants revenge towards the Treaty of Versailles

Wants to take over the world

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what does Adolf Hitler accomplish?

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Discovers a small political party called NAZI
Wrote a book named my struggle
Creates a new empire “ Third Reich”
gets Germanys army back

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what is The beer hall putsch?

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the NAZIS try to overthrow the local government of Germany(it fails and Hitler is arrested)

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what was the Munich Conference?

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Hitler believed Sudetenland should be part of Germany and he promised if he received the Sudetenland there would be no war

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what is the Quarantine speech? and who gave it?

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criticizing violence,suggests that no part of the world was truly isolated from the rest of the world
Franklin D Roosevelt

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How did WW2 start in Europe?

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Germany invade poland - which begins world war 2

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

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what is the Neutrality Act 1939?

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any country can come back their war materials and stuff but with cash and carry that stuff back on their own ships

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what is the Lend lease act?

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Gave the president authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the axis powers

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what are the Four freedoms?

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freedom of speech, religion, want, and fear

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what is the Atlantic Charter?

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Winston churchill signed a secret thing helping Britain if they ever need help

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what is the Destroyers for bases?

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Gave Britain war supplies and naval warships exchange for military bases

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What were four factors that grew US involvement into WW2?
Destroyers for bases Lend lease act Four freedoms Atlantic Charter
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what was Operation Barbarossa?
Germany invades the Soviet Union | A plan to take over Russia , attack the country that Hitler made a contract with
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what was Hitler's Biggest mistake ?
Operation Barbarossa because he turned his biggest enemy against him
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What was Pearl Harbor?
Japan carried out an air attack on the American naval base at pearl harbor
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What were the different types of US mobilization?
Human Resources - women went to work in factories, more minority participation Economic Resources- limit the amount of resources people can use ex gas,oil, and meat, To get money for the war they increased taxes and sold war bonds Military Resources- The draft/selective service was used to provide personnel for the military Media and Entertainment- strict censorship of reporting of the war because to improve public support of the war done through propaganda
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Who were the big three?
Winston Churchill , Stalin , and FDR
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where were the two main places that the war was fought?
The Europe and the Pacific
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what was United States strategy?
was focused on Europe and focused on defeating Hitler Stop German submarines Start bombing raids on German cities
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What was Germany's strategy?
wasn't about the US or England they wanted to defeat the Soviet Union to get their oil fields and they needed to do it before the US got their industrial strength
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What was The Battle of El Alamein?
Battle against British and Germans the whole purpose of this war was for the Germans to get the Suez Canal The British won the war which stopped the Germans from having control of the Suez Canal
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what was Battle of Stalingrad?
Germans trying to take over Russia Stalin used his scorched earth policy - set fire on the supply that the Germans can take and use against Russia Germans surrendered because they did not have the materials to survive
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what is D-Day?
Beginning of the allied invasion of France Led by Eisenhower Largest land and water fight This invasion made it possible for the liberation in Paris
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what was the Yalta Conference?
The Allied leaders got together assuming they would win how the world would operate after the war and how they will prevent another war like this will happen again
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What did they decide at the Yalta Conference?
Created a United Nations to promote world peace Germany would be divided into 4 zones controlled by the US, British, France, and Soviet Union Eastern european countries would have free elections
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what is V-E Day?
Victory in Europe when Germany surrenders
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who were the two main generals of WW2?
Douglas and Isenhower
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what was the Battle of Coral sea?
Stopped the japanese advance toward Hawaii
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what was the battle of Midway?
Americans forces defeat a much larger Japanese force | Americans Victory
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what was the Manhattan project?
A joint allied project consisting of Canadian, British, and US Scientists to build an atomic bomb
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what was V-J Day?
Americans Victory in Japan | Because the americans dropped a bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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what does Genocide mean?
Purposeful destruction of a racial, political , or cultural group
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What were the Nuremberg Trials?
Nazi leaders convicted of war crime

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