Beginning Of WWII

Question 1

Beginning of WWII date

Answer 1

September 1st, 1939

Question 2

Hitler becomes Chancellor

Answer 2

1933

Question 3

Reich

Answer 3

Empire

Question 4

Reichstag

Answer 4

German parliament

Question 5

Anschluss

Answer 5

Union with Germany

Question 6

War Guilt Clause

Answer 6

Treaty of Versailles; Germany should accept blame for starting WWI

Question 7

Reparations

Answer 7

Treaty of Versailles; Germany must pay £6,600 million

Question 8

Disarmament

Answer 8

Treaty of Versailles; Germany can only have small army and 6 naval ships— no air force or submarines. Rhineland was to be demilitarized

Question 9

Territorial Clauses

Answer 9

Treaty of Versailles; land was taken away from Germany and divided. Union with Austria (Anschluss) was forbidden

Question 10

Hitler’s Actions: breaking promise to disarm

Answer 10

When hitler became chancellor he began secretly building up army and weapons. He built warships, an Air Force, and he expanded the army
Orders troops to enter the Rhineland

Question 11

Hitlers Actions: making alliances (Anschluss)

Answer 11

Rome-Berlin Axis Pact: Italy (Mussolini)
Anti-Comintern Pact: Japan

Question 12

Hitlers Actions: breaking war guilt clause and territorial clauses

Answer 12

Hitlers begins to take back his land taken from him
Marched into Austria and forced an Anschluss
Hitler claims “No War Effot” and then demands Czechoslovakia to give him the Sudetenland

Question 13

Munich Agreement

Answer 13

Stated hitler COULD have Sudetenland but he promised to not invade the rest of Czechoslovakia (Czech weren’t even invited!)
Hitler still invades Czechoslovakia and then Poland in 1939 starting the war

Question 14

Causes of League of Nations failure

Answer 14

1. Not all countries joined the league
   -US, Russia, and Germany
2. The league had no power
   - countries could still trade non-member countries and depression they were reluctant to drop them
3. League had no army
   - soldiers to be supplied by other countries; other countries didn’t want to get involved with an aggressive country so nobody provides soldiers
4. Unable to act quickly
   - only met 4x a year, decisions had to be made in unison = SLOW DECISIONS

Question 15

Autocracy

Answer 15

A totalitarian political system with the goals of the nation more important than individual goald

Question 16

Nazism

Answer 16

National socialism, a form of racism: anti-semitista, anti-communist, anti-pacifist, anti-liberal

Question 17

Totalitarianism

Answer 17

Centralized government with absolute control over one political party

Question 18

Aristocracy

Answer 18

A state ruled by a privileged class (determined by wealth or birth). Elite man know how to rule better than common man

Question 19

Dictators of WWII

Answer 19

Adolf Hitler- leader of nazi Germany
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce)- leader of fascist Italy
Emperor Hirohito- leader of imperial Japan
Joseph Stalin- leader of the Soviet Union (Russia)

Question 20

Hitler

Answer 20

Followed a similar path to Mussolini
Had total nazi power in Germany
Know as “Der Fuehrer”
Took advantage of poor conditions to establish 3rd reich empire and planned for it to last 1000 years

Question 21

Mein Kampf

Answer 21

“My struggle”- a book written by adolf hitler in jail

Question 22

National socialists German workers party

Answer 22

Anti-semitism, German superiority
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany 1933
Established totalitarian state

Question 23

Rise of Hitler (in order)

Answer 23

Nazi party formed in 1920s
Nazi party larges in 1932
Hitler voted as chancellor in 1933
New parliament created— 450,000 members, began to illegally build of army
Other countries more afraid of communism- Hitler uses fear of communism for election

Question 24

Benito Mussolini

Answer 24

Born Italy
Establish fascist party 1921
Known as “Il Duce” or the leader
Elected with the use of economic problems in Italy, fear of communism, and promise of national glory

Question 25

Rise of fascism in Italy

Answer 25

Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922 and helped found the political ideology of fascism. He sided with the axis powers in 1940.

Question 26

Joseph Stalin

Answer 26

Born in Georgia in 1879.
Last name means steel
Seized power in USSR after Lenin’s death
Rapidly industrialized the Soviet Union during the 1930s
Caused USSR to become a police state; people lost rights

Question 27

Militarism

Answer 27

Glorification if war: nation strengthens its military and stockpiles weapons in preparation for war.
Incorporated into all levels of society

Question 28

What does the League of Nations do?

Answer 28

Tells the Japanese army to leave
Stops trading with Japan
The invasion of Manchuria positioned Japanese as a major military power in Southeast Asia
British wanted to halt Japanese invasion because they had strong trade relations with the chinese

Question 29

Why appeasement?

Answer 29

Many Britains believed Versailles punishments of Germany were too harsh.
A stronger Germany stopped the spread of communism

Question 30

Non-Agression Pact

Answer 30

Germany and Soviet Union 1939
Shocked the world because fascists and communists worked together
Secretly was dividing Poland
Hitler knew he would eventually invade soviets though

Question 31

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 31

Hitler and Stalin
August 23, 1939
Hitler hated communism but to keep the Lebrendraum he needed more land
He promised if Stalin invaded Poland he would eliminate the undesirable and give Stalin the eastern portion of the country

Question 32

Hitlers three aims

Answer 32

Abolish treaty of Versailles
Expand German territory
Defeat communism

Question 33

Characteristics of fascism

Answer 33

Supremacy of the military- militaristic society
Rampant sexism- people weren’t free to express their identities
Controlled mass media- propaganda: media is controlled by the government (radio, news etc)
Obsessed with national security: fear used as a motivational tool
Labor power is suppressed: no labor unions allowed
Corruption: government can cheat