Era Of Global Wars Flashcards
Start of WW1
•Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated
Causes of WW1
•M.A.I.N
- Militarism
- Alliances
- Imperialism
- Nationalism
Kaiser Wilhelm 2
•Leader Of Germany During WW1
Causes Of World War 2
- Aggression by totalarism leaders:(Germany, Italy, Japan)
- Nationalism
- Failures of Treaty of Versailles
- Weakness of League Of Nations
- Appeasement
- Belief In Isolation and Pacifism
Battle Of Britain
- Hitler Bombs Britain
* showed that Hitler Could Be Defeated
Franklin Roosevelt
•U.S President
Harry Truman
•U.S President after Death of FDR
Dwight D Eisenhower
•Allied commander in Europe During War
Douglas McAurthor
•U.S General in pacific during war
George Marshall
U.S General
Winston Churchill
•Prime Minister Of Great Britain
Hitler
•Nazi Dictator
Hideki Tojo
•Japanese military Leader
WW2 Begins
•Germany invades Poland in 1939
Genocide
•the systematic and purposeful destruction of racial political religious or cultural group
Final solution
•exterminate Jews through concentration camps (gas chambers)
Armenian Genocide
•during ww1 By leaders of Ottoman Empire
Cambodian Genocide
•Pol pot had the educated , artist, religious , minorities killed
Rwanda genocide
•Tutsi minority killed by Hutu
2 Major Powers after WW2
USA and SOVIET UNION
Iron Curtian
•Europe divided (east /and west)
US role when WW1 begins
•USA begins neutral then enters war when Germany uses unrestricted submarine warfare
Woodrow Wilson
•president of USA during WW1
End of empires after WW1
- Russian empire
- Ottoman Empire
- German and Austria- Hungarian empire
Treaty of Versailles
- Germany forced to accept all guilt
- pay repetition
- Germany no longer allowed to have military
- League of Nations created
- USA not a member
- failure
League of Nations
- created to prevent global conflicts
- us not a member
- failure
