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nationalism

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advocacy of political independence

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collective security

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envisioned by Woodrow WIlson and it was the reliance on a group of nations as protection against aggressors

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Womens International League for Peace/Freedom

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organized 1914 by Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch

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Kellogg Briand Pact

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1928

62 nations agreed to condemn recourse to war for solution of international controversies

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Cordell Hull

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Hull was the Secretary of State under FDR

-believed that economic expansion by US would stabilize world politics

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Good Neighbor Policy

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effort of FDR administration to enhance economic and diplomatic relations with Latin America. no state had the right to intervene with the affairs of the other

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Facist values

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ideas that celebrated supremacy.

  • state over individual
  • dictatorship over democracy
  • authoritism over freedom of speech
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Nuremeberg Laws of 1935

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stripped Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriage to Germans
-teachers, doctors, and other professions couldn’t practice their craft

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what year did Italy invade Ethiopia

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1935

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in what year did Hitler re-arm the Rhineland?

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1935

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what is the Rome-Berlin Axis

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Italy and Germany became allies in 1936

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who was the dictator of Italy

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Benito Mussolini

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when was the Spanish Civil War

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1936-1939

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explain the Spanish Civil War

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conflict between Facist General Franco and Loyalist govt

  • tested US neutrality
  • Mussolini and Hitler helped Franco in order to use country as testing ground for bombs
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Sudeten Crisis

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piece of land South of Czech betrayed by GB and France to appease Hitler in 1938 Munich Conference

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Nye Committee

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hearings from 1934-1936 on role of business/financiers in the US decision to enter 1st WW

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Neutrality Act of 1935

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prohibited arms shipments to either side in a war

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Kristallnacht

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night of broken glass
mobs ransacked more than 7,000 Jewish shops and synagogues
-91 died and 30,000 sent to concentration camp

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Soviet German Nonaggression Act

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agreement between Hitler and Stalin not to attack each other which allowed Germany victories in the west without worries in the east

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Blitzkrieg or “lightening war”

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Sept 1st 1939

  • Germany invaded Poland
  • blitzkrieg = form of warfare used by German troops in vehicles with support from airplanes.
  • tactics result in swift German conquests
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phony war

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during WW2 Hitler removes forces from Poland to focus on GB and France

  • Europe silent/shocked/inactive @ Hitler
  • period inactivity=phony war
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in what year did Japan invade Manchuria

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1931

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what is the global response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria

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the League of nations rebuke Japan while the US does nothing

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in what year were the Nuremberg Laws passed

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1935

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in what year does Hitler invade Ethiopia
1935
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what is both the global and US response to Hitler's invasion of Ethiopia
the League of Nations imposes minor sanctions on Germany and the US passes the Neutrality Act of 1935
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is there a global response to Hitler's German universal draft?
no
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when does Hitler remobilize the Rhineland
1936
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what is America's response to the remobilization of the Rhineland?
the passing of the 2nd Neutrality Act which meant the US wouldn't give loans to warring nations in response to the Nye Committee findings
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in what year was the Rome Berlin Axis est
1936
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what year did the Spanish Civil War start
1936
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what year was the rape of Nanking
1937
33
describe the Rape of Nanking
Japanese attack on the Chinese city of Nanking. the Japanese killed over 200,000 Chinese and raped over 20,000 women
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what is the American response to the Rape of Nanking
the US embargoes scrap metal
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when was the Sudeten Crisis
1938
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when did Hitler conquer Czech
1938
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what's the Global response to Hitler's conquest of Czechoslovakia
if Hitler invades Poland that means war with Great Britain and France
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when was the German Soviet Nonaggression Pact
1939
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when does Hitler invade Poland
Sept. 1st 1939
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what is the global response to the invasion of Poland?
the beginning of WW2
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when does hitler attack norway
april of 1940
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when does Hitler conquer Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France
may through june of 1940
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what is the US response to the German conquests in 1940
the draft
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what year is the battle of great britain
1940
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in Operation Barborossa of 1941 Hitler invades what country
USSR
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what is the American response to the German invasion of USSR
the Lend Lease - "arsenal of democracy"
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when is the Battle of the Atlantic
1941
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what 3 major things happen during the Battle of the Atlantic
- convoy system - radar/sonar developed - Enigma code broken
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when does America enter WW2
Dec. 7th 1941
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3 days after Pearl Harbor US is at war with who?
Germany
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who plans most of the war for the Allies?
the big 3
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what leaders are in the Big 3?
Stalin, FDR, Churchill
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what leader wants a two front war and why
Stalin because it would take some of the pressure/attention off of USSR who are drastically losing life
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where is the first place that the US begins to fight the Nazis on land
Africa in Nov 1942
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When did Germany and Italy surrender from Africa
May 1943
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What year is D Day
1944
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When is the Yalta Conference
1945
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what happened at the Yalta conference
the Big 3 meets and Stalin gets to liberate Berlin
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when does FDR die
April 1945
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what year does Hitler commit suicide
1945
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when do the Germans surrender from WW2 ''V-E Day''
May 8th 1945
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what is America's response to Japan's aggression in French Indo China
froze Japanese assets
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what's Japan's response to the freezing of their assets
pearl harbor
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how did the 1st 6 months of war w/ japan go for the US
poorly
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what two battles are a turnin point in the pacific theater
Coral Sea and Midway
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why are Midway and Coral Sea both turning points
from this point on Japan is in retreat
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when is the battle at midway
June of 1942
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when in battle at coral sea
may of 1942
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what were the US plans for Coral Sea and Midway
1. gain air and naval superiority 2. need airstrips within 2,000 miles of Japan to bomb (task number two completed via island hopping)

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